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After about a year, Solar has moved from version 1.0.0alpha2 to 1.0.0alpha3. Yes, it’s been a while, but when you realize that only one person really works on the project in his spare time, that’s a pretty good achievement. This whole spare time thing is also changing. Solar is about to get a whole lot more attention now that the developer’s employer (OmniTI) has agreed to let him use up to 40% of his paid work time to further develop Solar. Obviously, OmniTI knows a good thing when they see it.

As of writing this, Paul hasn’t had time to update the Solar site with the latest download, but that will likely happen tomorrow. Additionally, there will be a nice post about what has changed. I will add some links when they are available.

Anyone who has used a PHP web framework before, or those who just wants to try one out, should give Solar a whirl. It is the most well-thought-out framework I have had the pleasure of using. What’s next for me? Time to checkout the latest from SVN and give it a work out. The faster we test it and iron out bugs, the sooner there will be a beta release. On that note, a beta release is actually not far off and (hopefully) by the end of the year, the official stable release will be available.