Release 3.5 with PHP 8.2 compatibility and theme support?

[Rayne]

I'm currently deciding for a new project whether I stick with native PHP templates wrapped by a customized View from Fat-Free Framework or try out Plates. For that reason, I studied the commit log, pull requests and the issue tracker.

According to the page listing commits after release 3.4 (from Dec 25, 2020), meaningful changes are already part of the v3 branch that are not released. Is there a specific reason why the following features and fixes are not published with a proper release?

• PHP 8.1 (and probably 8.2) compatibility
  • Escape can take a null parameter php8.1 #297
• Theme support
  • Themes Support #234 #270

A release would also close these issues:

• PHP 8.1 (and probably 8.2 compatibility)
  • Atualização #296
• Theme support
  • ResolveTemplatePath not exist ? #283
  • Any hope of documented Themes functionality being release? If not, recommended workaround? #292

I second the proposal by @luri-fr, that the components support mentioned in #267 should be moved to a later release to provide a proper release for current PHP versions.

In my opinion, the next release should also solve #293. As far as I understood the issue, make() has only to call the data() function when an additional argument is specified.

[Rayne]

@ragboyjr @reinink How can we users help creating a new release?

[ragboyjr]

Thanks for this feedback, will take a look at this over the weekend.