🚀 Quantum Framework 3.0.0 Released

[armanist]

Today we’re excited to officially release Quantum PHP 3.0.0 — the biggest architectural and developer-experience upgrade in the framework so far.

This release focuses on:

• Modernizing the framework for PHP 7.4+ and PHP 8.x
• Major internal architecture refactors
• Stronger typing and static analysis
• Cleaner dependency injection and bootstrapping
• Improved routing and response pipeline
• Better testing, reliability, and maintainability
• New first-class framework capabilities

This version represents a major step toward making Quantum PHP more predictable, maintainable, and scalable for long-term development.

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✨ Highlights

✅ Modern PHP Support

Quantum now officially supports:

• PHP 7.4+
• PHP 8.0
• PHP 8.1

with extensive compatibility fixes and modernization work across the framework.

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✅ Stronger Type Safety & Code Quality

Large parts of the framework were modernized with:

• declare(strict_types=1)
• Typed properties
• Updated method signatures
• PHPStan integration
• PHPStan Level 7 compliance
• Rector automation
• PHP CS Fixer integration

This dramatically improves developer confidence and maintainability.

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✅ Major DI & Bootstrapping Refactor

The dependency injection system and application bootstrap flow were heavily redesigned.

Key improvements include:

• Di::set() instance binding support
• DI registry/container split
• Better DI ownership model
• Circular dependency fixes
• Cleaner app initialization lifecycle
• Explicit response pipeline architecture

This simplifies framework internals while making behavior more predictable and testable.

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✅ Routing Core Rewrite

Quantum 3 introduces major routing architecture improvements:

• Route collections
• Route finder abstraction
• Reduced router responsibilities
• Better group modifier chaining
• Route rate limiting support
• Improved OpenAPI generation compatibility

This lays the foundation for more scalable routing features going forward.

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✅ First-Class Route Rate Limiting

Quantum now includes native route rate limiting support with configurable backends.

Example:

Route::get('/api/users')
    ->rateLimit('api');

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✅ Native Cron Runner

A new native cron runner has been added to the framework, making scheduled task execution easier to manage directly inside Quantum applications.

Huge thanks to new contributor @charoyan88 for the contribution 🎉

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✅ Explicit Response Pipeline

One of the biggest internal improvements in 3.0.0 is the move away from implicit stop()-based execution flow toward explicit Response return contracts.

This affects:

• Web flow
• Console flow
• Middleware handling
• Generated templates
• OpenAPI generators

The result is cleaner control flow, better testability, and more predictable execution behavior.

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✅ Uploaded File System Refactor

The upload subsystem was redesigned into focused collaborators with cleaner responsibilities and improved bootstrap safety.

This also resolved several Request lifecycle and circular dependency issues.

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✅ Improved Testing & Reliability

Significant effort went into improving framework reliability:

• Increased unit test coverage
• Improved command coverage
• Faster test execution
• More testable HTTP client architecture
• Better serve command reliability
• Extensive refactors to reduce hidden side effects

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✅ Module & Template Improvements

Quantum templates and module architecture were modernized with:

• DTO-based services/controllers
• Improved middleware validation structure
• Cleaner module boot lifecycle
• Better disabled-module handling
• Translation merging fixes
• Improved pagination behavior

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✅ Security Improvements

Security-related enhancements include:

• Safer remember-me cookies (httpOnly + secure)
• Cleaner auth adapter configuration injection
• Better request handling consistency

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🙌 Community Contributions

Special thanks to everyone who contributed to this release, including:

• Tigranuhi A
• Martin Grigoryan
• Wiltzsu
• Charoyan88
• live-soft

and everyone who submitted fixes, feedback, discussions, and testing support.

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🔥 What’s Next

Quantum 3.0.0 is not just a feature release — it’s a foundational cleanup and modernization milestone that prepares the framework for future evolution.

The focus going forward is:

• continued architecture refinement
• developer ergonomics
• stronger tooling
• improved modularity
• ecosystem growth
• better DX without sacrificing framework transparency

Quantum has always aimed to be a framework developers can learn from, not just use blindly — and 3.0 pushes that philosophy even further.

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📚 Documentation

Explore the up-to-date Quantum PHP documentation:

👉 https://quantumphp.gitbook.io/docs

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📦 Upgrade

You can upgrade via Composer:

composer update

Please review the upgrade notes and breaking changes before migrating production applications.

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Thank you to everyone supporting the framework and helping push Quantum forward 🚀

#QuantumPHP #PHP #OpenSource #WebDevelopment #PHPFramework

[Tigranuhi-A]

Congratulations on the Quantum PHP 3.0.0 release! Excellent work 👏

[grigoryanmartin20]

Massive release - congrats to everyone involved. 3.0.0 looks like the kind of foundation upgrade that pays off for years. Can’t wait to explore it. 🎉

[Wiltzsu]

Congratulations on the release! 👏

[armanist]

Thanks