📆 Carbon Road-map

[kylekatarnls]

3.0

• Drop PHP < 8.1
  • Drop PHP 8.0 #2810
  • Drop PHP < 8.0 #2385
  • ⬆️ Drop Symfony < 4.4 and PHP < 7.2.5 support #2070
  • Drop fixes for old PHP versions #2346
• Add generic unitOfUnit and unitsInUnit getters #2885
• ⬆️ Make CarbonPeriod extend DatePeriod #1752
• Return null instead of false #2340
• ⭐ Instantiating CarbonInterval with 0 makes forHumans() report "1s" #2035
• ⭐ Create empty interval by default #2079
• ♻️ Cleanup diffIn* diffInReal* floatDiffIn* floatDiffInReal* #2119
  • diffIn* will use the floatDiffInReal* behavior, all other variants will be later removed
• Week methods only work with local translator, not default locale #1967
• Support decimal numbers in addRealUnit #2347
• Allow to add and subtract decimal numbers of any unit #2519
• ⭐ Enums for week days, months and units #2701
• ⭐ Isolate settings in factories #2345

Test upcoming changes

You can run the checked stuff above adding "nesbot/carbon": "3.x-dev as 2.999", to your composer.json to test checked changes above with the development version of 2.x.

3.0.x / 3.1

• Allow to pass Unit enum for unit name #2944
• Update documentation with version 3 as default
• Fix potential unwanted regression reported
• Fix potential blockers to upgrade for libraries/frameworks/application depending on Carbon
• Improve testing tools via carbonite and discovery of common date-time pitfalls

Future

• Make Carbon installable without symfony/translation (make translations optional)
• Make Carbon installable without doctrine helpers

A big thank you to Tidelift subscribers, and OpenCollective Sponsors/Backers that sustain all this work, allow me to allocate time in advance for next features.

[kylekatarnls]

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