Today we are pleased to announce the immediate release of the first beta version of Doctrine 2. It comes with some delay which was caused partly by our move to git and github and the switch to the Symfony Console component for the CLI. We had to confront the alpha users with quite some backwards compatibility problems and we apologize for that. Starting with the beta period you can expect the amount of backwards incompatible changes to be much lower.

Since the ALPHA4 release over 160 issues have been resolved. You can find the full changelog here.

Some of the most important changes were the shift towards the Symfony (2) Console component for the CLI as well as the introduction of the inversedBy attribute for bidirectional associations, among others. For some help with upgrading from ALPHA4 to BETA1, please consult the upgrade page.

You can get the new release as usual from our download page or directly from github.

We would like to thank all the adopters of the early alpha releases. All your issue reports, feature and enhancement requests and general feedback and criticism have helped a lot to move the project forward.

Looking forward, we will likely have at least 2 or 3 beta releases, about every 1-2 months, before we go RC. Once that happens, the API is ultimately frozen until the stable release.