Doctrine ORM 2.5.0-alpha2 Pre-Release

We are happy to announce the immediate availability Doctrine ORM 2.5.0-alpha2.

This is a pre-release meant to allow users and contributors to try out the new
upcoming features of the ORM.

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

This pre-release is not yet at feature-freeze, therefore we urge contributors to contact
us if there is any change that requires our attention before we reach the beta (feature-freeze)
release stage.

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-beta1 on 2015-02-02
• 2.5.0-beta2 on 2015-02-09
• 2.5.0 on 2015-02-16

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

Additionally, we will delay the release if any newly introduced critical bugs are
detected, as it already happened with this 2.5.0-alpha2 release.

Installation

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

{
  "require": {
      "doctrine/orm": "2.5.0-alpha2"
  },
  "minimum-stability": "dev"
}

Changes since 2.5.0-alpha1

This is a list of issues solved in 2.5.0-alpha2 since 2.5.0-alpha1:

• DDC-3517
  GH-1265 Fix error undefined
  index "targetEntity"
• DDC-3516
  GH-1264 Add Changelog/Migration
  to 2.5 documentation chapter.
• DDC-3520
  DDC-3521
  GH-1269 self-update composer
  before install
• DDC-3526
  GH-1273 Incorrect @throws
  doc. in getSingleScalarResult
• DDC-3465
  GH-1232 Explicit example of
  partial indexes
• DDC-3300
  DDC-3503
  GH-1130
  GH-1232 Resolve target entity
  also in discriminator map (allows interfaces and custom names in discriminator map)
• DDC-3378
  GH-1176 Support merging entities
  with composite identities defined through to-one associations
• DDC-3533
  GH-1279 Fixed typos and grammar
  in the second level cache documentation
• DDC-3343
  DDC-3536
  DDC-3544
  GH-1281
  GH-1288
  GH-1169 Entities should not be
  deleted when using EXTRA_LAZY and one-to-many
• DDC-3538
  DDC-3519
  GH-1283
  GH-1267 Reverted
  #1220 <https://github.com/doctrine/doctrine2/pull/1220>_, fixed order in
  pagination logic
• DDC-2704
  DDC-3524
  GH-1272 merge inherited transient
  properties - merge properties into uninitialized proxies
• DDC-3346
  DDC-3531
  DDC-3534
  GH-1280
  GH-1277 fixed findOne*
  operations when using a EAGER *-to-many association
• DDC-3541
  GH-1286 Removing XDebug from
  non-coverage builds
• DDC-3546
  GH-1289 Improve test suite performance

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