Doctrine ORM 2.5.0-RC1 Release Candidate

We are happy to announce the immediate availability of Doctrine ORM 2.5.0-RC1.

This is a release candidate meant to allow users and contributors to verify the
stability of the next iteration of the ORM.

We encourage all of our users to help us by trying out this release.
Please report any possible problems or incompatibilities that may have been
introduced during development.

What is new in 2.5.x?

We are currently in the process of documenting all the changes and new features that were
introduced in Doctrine ORM 2.5.x.

You can find the current state of the 2.5.0 changes overview in
the upgrade notes.

Release RoadMap

We expect to release following versions of the ORM in the next days:

• 2.5.0 on 2015-04-02

Please note that these dates may change depending on the availability of our team.

Installation

You can install this version of the ORM by using Composer and the
following composer.json contents:

{
    "require": {
        "doctrine/orm": "2.5.0-RC1"
    },
    "minimum-stability": "dev"
}

Changes since 2.5.0-beta2

This is a list of issues solved in 2.5.0-RC1 since 2.5.0-beta1:

• DDC-3632
  #1345 Fix crashes in ConvertMappingCommand and
  GenerateEntitiesCommand when using entities with joined table inheritance
• DDC-3634
  #1346 Fix: generated IDs are converted to integer even
  when they are big integers
• DDC-3630
  DDC-3621
  #1343 Support embeddables in partial object query expression
• DDC-3623
  DDC-3629
  #1337
  #1342 Paginator functional tests and sorting corrections
• DDC-2224
  DDC-3625
  #1339 Honor convertToDatabaseValueSQL() in DQL query
  parameters and caches

Please report any issues you may have with the update on the mailing list or on
Jira.