We have now released the first release candidate of Slim 3 following a successful beta period.

BC breaks in 3.0.0-RC1:

These changes are all BC breaks since beta 2:

• #1489 - getParsedBody() will now return an array in all situations when JSON or form-urlencoded data is sent by the client. Previously, it returned an object when the content type was JSON.
• #1457 - The Container can now be configured via an array passed into the App’s constructor. Note that this means that your settings must now live in a sub-array called ‘settings’.
• #1443 - pathFor() now prepends the base path, making URLs easier to generate when you are running Slim within a subdirectory and removes the need to prepend with getBaseUrl().

New features in 3.0.0-RC1:

• #1490 - Slim 3’s error handlers now return JSON, XML or HTML as determined by the request’s Accept header.
• #1488 - You can now disable Slim 3’s error handler completely.

The full list of changes is here

For details on the what’s new in Slim 3, please see this article about 3.0 beta 1.

Getting started

To get started, you can follow the installation instructions or use Rob Allen’s skeleton application.

We would appreciate it if you could test this release candidate and report all issues that you find. As this is a release candidate, we are hoping that there will not be any more BC breaks, though we do not promise this until 3.0 final is released.

What’s next?

We hope to release the first stable version of Slim 3 soon!