Weekly update – 14 February 2025

[ryan]

This week we’ve got 2 new versions out: 3.0.246 on the main/master branch, and 3.0.247 on the dev branch. Version 3.0.246 (main/master) contains several minor bug fixes that were discovered after 3.0.244. And 3.0.247 on the dev branch adds support for conditional hooks that can match method return values. The hooks documentation has been updated with a new section that covers all the details here.

I’m going to slow a bit on core updates over the next few weeks so that I can dedicate more time to developing the new ProcessWire website. The designers have done a great job and now I need to focus on getting some parts of it developed and new text written, etc. I’ll keep you up-to-date as it moves forward. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

[Robin S]

@ryan, is there any difference in terms of performance between using conditional hooks and doing the equivalent logic of checking the arguments and/or return value within the hook and returning early when a condition is not met?

Personally I've preferred not to use the conditional hook syntax because I find it more readable to have PHP logic in the hook code, but if this was less performant I'd consider changing.