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There is a lot of discussion going on about PSR-1, Composer, Packagist packages, and whether or not FuelPHP supports or will support this. With this blog post I will try to make it clear where FuelPHP stands in terms of Composer, how you can use it now, and how it's going to be used in the future.

A couple of days ago we've retweeted the anouncement of a "new" CMS called RebornCMS. This was done under the, maybe somewhat naive, believe that people have put their heart into making something to help out others. This is somethng we respect in all open-source projects. The passion and willingness to do more as a collective than as a single developer is what drives and motivates us, whether these projects are our competitors or products that we've helped to take shape using the FuelPHP framework.

At the beginning of 2012 Jelmer posted an article called "The road ahead", outlining the developments of what then was referred to as "FuelPHP 2.0".

In the 10 months that has followed, a lot has changed. Two members have left the core development team, one of them being the projects founder, and the project has found new leadership. New leadership usually brings change, and for us, there is no exception.

It has been a busy time for both the Core developers, and all contributors. Lots of bugs have been squashed, speed has been improved, and new features have been added.  We've also said goodbye to Pagodabox, and found a new home, courtesy of our new sponsor. We've introduced a new website, and an API browser.

Without further ado, here's FuelPHP v1.4!

It has been a busy time for both the Core developers, and all contributors. Lots of bugs have been squashed, speed has been improved, and new features have been added. Without further ado, here's FuelPHP v1.3!

Today we've tagged the first releases for FuelPHP 2.0. As of this version we'll release the core-of-the-core framework as the Kernel package and the other libraries that make up the 1.x Core will be in the new Core packages or their own package. The Kernel has now reached a level that is pretty close to a Release Candidate and could be called production ready, but as we've raised the bar for unit testing the current 60% coverage is too little for a RC release.

The FuelPHP team has picked up the pace! Three weeks after the release of v1.2, it's time for v1.2.1.

Exactly one month after the release of the first v1.2 release candidate, we are happy to announce the release of FuelPHP v1.2.

Context is what gives meaning to otherwise meaningless or ambiguous statements. This holds true not only in language but in programming as well, or at least it should.

After some internal discussion and already having adopted PSR-0 for 2.0 we have now decided to adopt PSR-1 as well. For the most part we were already following the recommendations put forward in there, but there is one big one: camelCase method names. We understand that many of you will have at the very least mixed feelings about this, we sympathize and share a lot of that feeling having used snake_casing ourselves for as long as we can remember.