The first new release of Solar in three months, version 0.26.0 alpha, has arrived! There are over 150 separate changes and improvements noted in the change log.

In conjunction with the new release, we have a brand new website. The site design is from Matt Brett, the CSS and hosting are courtesy of Clay Loveless, and the logo was designed by Ben Carter.

Changes in the latest release of the framework include:

• a move from the Facade pattern to the Factory pattern
• front-controller and page-controller now support automatic discovery of alternative output formats
• Solar_Sql has a lot of little improvements
• a new data filter class