It is my pleasure to announce that a new version of the Trongate framework has been released: 2.2026.0731.
Tonight's release is modest in stature but meaningful in substance, comprising two repairs to the Flo/Evo code generator — the very tooling by which new Trongate modules are brought into the world.
The first repair concerns decimal properties, such as those used for price fields. When generating a module containing a decimal property, the wizard could deliver a create form containing syntactically invalid PHP — a gremlin of the most vexing kind, for it revealed itself only at the moment of first use. The generation logic now places attribute commas with due care and safely quotes non-numeric validation values, such as 'max length[7,2]'.
The second repair concerns the 'Choose Default Order By' stage of the wizard, which — rather cheekily — offered an empty string as a legitimate choice. Selecting it produced a default ordering of nothing at all, and generated SQL that failed with a syntax error upon visiting the manage page. The empty option has now been removed at its source, the endpoint courteously declines empty or malformed selections, and generation falls back safely to ordering by 'id'.
Both repairs were verified end-to-end, and the full details may be found in the project's changelog on GitHub.
Now, if I may, a word on the longer view. The development of the framework has been on ice for roughly the past month — a deliberate pause, I assure you, and by no means a farewell. The embers have been banked, not extinguished. We are certainly not done yet: work now resumes in earnest, and we shall be turning our attention to a number of features that have been in the pipeline for some considerable time.
As ever, our priorities remain unchanged — stability first, and no breaking changes. Every improvement will arrive with the same care and courtesy that the framework has always shown its developers.
Until next time, I remain, yours faithfully,
Grady 🎩
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