^Status|Draft|

====== 2.1 Changelog ======

===== New Libraries =====

  * [[:libraries:cache|Cache]] - Caching library with multiple drivers
  * [[:libraries:image|Image]] - Image manipulation library with GD and ImageMagick drivers
  * [[:libraries:orm|ORM]] - Object Relational Mapping library
  * [[:libraries:payment|Payment]] - Online payment library with multiple drivers

===== New Helpers =====

  * [[:helpers:num|num]] - Number helper functions
  * [[:helpers:expires|expires]] - Client side caching headers helper
  * [[:helpers:email|email]] - Helper for more easily using Swiftmailer
  * [[helpers:html]]::link() - Link tag helper
  * [[helpers:html]]::breadcrumb() - Breadcrumb helper
  * [[helpers:arr]]::binary_search() - Binary search helper
  * [[helpers:valid]]::standard_text() - Standard text helper
  * [[helpers:text]]::widont() - Widow word text helper
  

===== New Addons =====

  * [[:addons:auth|Auth]] - Authentication/Authorisation module
  * [[:addons:forge|Forge]] - **FOR**m **GE**neration module

===== New Other =====

  * PostgreSQL database driver
  * MySQLi database driver
  * Gzip compression
  * Added View::factory(), which creates a new instance and allows chaining.
  * Added Session::instance() to get the singleton
  * Added URI->argument(), URI->argument_array() and URI->total_arguments()
  * Added cookie data to Profiler output

===== Bugfixes =====

  * Lots.

===== API Changes =====

  * [[:libraries:encrypt|Encrypt library]] has been completely rewritten
  * 'include_paths' has been renamed to 'modules' in ''config/config.php''
  * 'autoload' has been renamed to 'preload' in ''config/config.php''
  * ''index.php'' is not included by default for html helpers
  * Removed num_rows() from the query result object. Use count($query) instead.
  * Database->join() parameters have changed