Doctrine ORM 2.5.0-beta1 Pre-Release

We are happy to announce the immediate availability Doctrine ORM 2.5.0-beta1.

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 beta release.
Please report any possible problems or incompatibilities that may have been
introduced during development.

Starting from this release, no more new features or breaking changes will be allowed
into the repository until 2.6.x development starts.

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-RC1 on 2015-03-25
• 2.5.0 on 2015-04-02

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

We also apologize for the major delays in this beta release, which are caused by
the scarce availability of the core team in these months.

Installation

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

{
    "require": {
        "doctrine/orm": "2.5.0-beta1"
    },
    "minimum-stability": "dev"
}

Changes since 2.5.0-alpha2

This is a list of issues solved in 2.5.0-beta2 since 2.5.0-alpha2:

• DDC-3452 Embeddables Support for ClassMetadataBuilder
• DDC-3551 Load platform lazily in ClassMetadataFactory to avoid database connections.
• DDC-3258 Improve suport for composite primary keys and assocations as keys.
• DDC-3554 Allow to recreate DQL QueryBuilder from parts.
• DDC-3461 Allow setting association as primary key in ClassMetadataBuilder API with makePrimaryKey().
• DDC-3587 Added programmatical support to define indexBy on root aliases.
• DDC-3588 Add support for seconds in DATE_ADD DQL function.
• DDC-3585 Fix instantiation of nested embeddables.
• DDC-3607 Add support for orphan removal in ClassMetadataBuilder/AssocationBuilder
• DDC-3597 Add support for embeddables in MappedSuperclasses.
• DDC-3616 Add support for DateTimeImmutable in Query parameter detection.
• DDC-3622 Improve support for objects as primary key by casting to string in UnitOfWork.
• DDC-3619 Update IdentityMap when entity gets managed again fixing spl_object_hash collision.
• DDC-3608 Fix bug in EntityGenerator to XML/YML with default values.
• DDC-3590 Fix bug in PostgreSQL with naming strategy of non-default schema tables.
• DDC-3566 Fix bug in Second-Level Cache with association identifiers.
• DDC-3528 Have PersistentCollection implement AbstractLazyCollection from doctrine/collections.
• DDC-3567 Allow access to all aliases for a QueryBuilder.

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