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''Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'' [[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Santayana|George Santayana]]

====== History ======
The history of Kohana is told backwards, because we are looking forward.

===== Kohana 2.2.x =====
  * December 20, 2008 - Release of Kohana 2.3
  * August 8, 2008 - Release of Kohana 2.2


===== Kohana 2.1.x =====
  * February 7, 2008 - Release of Kohana 2.1.1
  * February 5, 2008 - Release of Kohana 2.1


===== Kohana 2.0 =====
November 2007

Kohana version 2.0 is released. PHP5 based.
New fully OOP framework, no legacy code, includes modules, built on the cascading resources concept.


===== The Good Old Days =====
September - October 2007

We get a BDFL, decision to go PHP5 only, new life, new goals.
Almost total rewrite undertaken by developers. (All three of them)



===== The Worst of Times =====

August 2007.
Our Project leader goes walkabout, not much happens.


===== Kohana 1.0 =====
June - July 2007
Kohana is re-released as version 1.0, without documentation.

Lots of ideas and discussions on the way forward, 


===== Kohana =====

June  2007.

A new Name, forum, Trac.


===== In The Beginning =====

BlueFlame, a ''community fork'' of CodeIgniter is released.

Reactions and responses. The fork splits.


May 31 2007 [[http://codeigniter.com/forums/viewthread/53347/|BlueFlame announced]]


===== Before The Beginning =====
Up until May 2007

The founding members of Kohana are from the Codeigniter community.

Our initial happiness, and later unhappiness, with CI.