[MERGED INTO 16.7.4] Phalcon 3.0

[franco]

Hi everyone,

Phalcon 3.0 came out recently, equipped with PHP 7.0 support and rewrites in multiple areas. We've been testing 3.0.0 and 3.0.1 for a bit and it looks like the authors did an awesome job!

https://phalconphp.com/en/

Before we bring it into the 16.7.x release we'd like to do an open test round to collect user feedback. The following works on both 17.1-ALPHA and 16.7-RELEASE.

Phalcon for amd64:

# pkg add -f https://pkg.opnsense.org/snapshots/amd64/phalcon-3.0.1.txz

Phalcon for i386:

# pkg add -f https://pkg.opnsense.org/snapshots/i386/phalcon-3.0.1.txz

Reverting to the Phalcon 2.0 release is simple:

# pkg install -f phalcon

Expected outcome: everything works as usual.

Please check back after a few days to let us know if you have seen or you haven't seen (very important for us) anything.

If there are questions please let me know.


Thank you,
Franco

[fabian]

Hi Franco,

have not tested a lot with 3.0.1 but did not recognise any difference to 3.0.0.

Kind regards

Fabian

[weust]

Installed in on 16.7.3 and it works :-)

[Taomyn]

I just installed it to my new 16.7.3 amd64 based box, and so far nothing bad to report.

[shade73]

Installed phalcon-3.0.1 on 16.7.3 amd64,

Have navigated the whole GUI and everything seems to work as supposed.

[phoenix]

I've also installed this on my 16.7.3 amd64 without any problems. There's nothing amiss on any of the GUI pages and all the pages render much quicker than before - it makes the GUI much more responsive.

[franco]

Thanks guys, will very likely be shipped in 16.7.4

[Taomyn]

The only thing I have noticed but I'm not sure if this may have happened before as I have a very new install, is that if I leave my dashboard displaying long enough under Chrome it eventually either hangs the tab or shows the "Aw, something went wrong" message. I've attached a screenshot showing my layout if that helps.

Other than that, I've still not seen anything else wrong.

[franco]

That's part of the client-side JavaScript, we haven't had the time to look at this, fighting daemons in third party tools and the kernel itself, both of which keep us from doing our own improvements.

Ticket(s) here:

https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/1013

[franco]

Thanks everyone, 16.7.4 is out in an hour with the latest Phalcon 3.0.1. Zero issues.


Cheers,
Franco