Well, it’s been a long time coming, but Ellislab have finally done it, they’ve officially let us know about CodeIgniter 2.0. This is a huge step forward and shows that Ellislab are dedicated to this, their only free product.
I get plenty of emails asking me if this version of CodeIgniter would be released, and it’s clear there’s been a huge buzz about this in the wider development community. So, I’m going to take you through the changes and explain what you need to know, and what this means for CodeIgniter as a framework moving forward.
I’ll make this quite clear: I will not just list all the changes in the changelog. You should be able to find and read them yourselves. This post is more of a summary of the important changes and what they mean for Ellislab, developers, and clients.