This release contains the following new or improved functionality:
- Append, Property, Sleep, Sonar and Truncate tasks
- Improved PHP 7.1 compatibility
- Various typo and bug fixes, documentation updates
This release will most likely be the last minor update in the 2.x series. Phing 3.x will drop support for PHP < 5.6.
The following issues were closed in this release:
- phing should get a strict mode (Trac #918) #554
- Can not delete git folders on windows (Trac #956) #556
- Relative symlinks (Trac #1124) #567
- Tests fail under windows (Trac #1215) #578
- stripphpcomments matches links in html (Trac #1219) #579
- OS detection fails on OSX (Trac #1227) #581
- JsHintTask fails when reporter attribute is not set (Trac #1230) #582
- An issue with 'file' attribute of 'append' task (v2.15.1) #595
- An issue with 'append' task when adding a list of files in a directory (v2.15.1) #597
- Git auto modified file with phing vendor #613
- phar file not working - \Symfony\Component\Yaml\Parser' not found #614
- JSHint — Support of specific config file path #615
- PHP notice on 7.1: A non well formed numeric value encountered #622
- Sass task fails when PEAR is not installed #624
- sha-512 hash for phing-latest.phar #629