Version 4.0.0

Release Date: February 24, 2020

4.0 release of CodeIgniter4

Enhancements:

• Updated welcome view file
• Debug Toolbar now supports dark mode
• New alpha_numeric_punct validation rule
• Kint was updated from the 2.x branch to the latest 3.x branch, with new config file to specify options
• Additional docs for getting started
• CLI fixed to better handle complex arguments
• Improvements to File class
• New model() helper method for easy singleton Models.
• Tests completely reorganized to make app-level tests simpler out of the box.

Repo changes:

The devstarter repo has been deprecated.

We now have an automated changelog generated in the CHANGELOG.md file in the main repo. See it for more details.