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# CHANGELOG

## 7.1

* Add the `Filesystem::readFile()` method

## 7.0

* Add argument `$lock` to `Filesystem::appendToFile()`

## 5.4

* Add `Path` class
* Add `$lock` argument to `Filesystem::appendToFile()`

## 5.0.0

* `Filesystem::dumpFile()` and `appendToFile()` don't accept arrays anymore

## 4.4.0

* support for passing a `null` value to `Filesystem::isAbsolutePath()` is deprecated and will be removed in 5.0
* `tempnam()` now accepts a third argument `$suffix`.

## 4.3.0

* support for passing arrays to `Filesystem::dumpFile()` is deprecated and will be removed in 5.0
* support for passing arrays to `Filesystem::appendToFile()` is deprecated and will be removed in 5.0

## 4.0.0

* removed `LockHandler`
* Support for passing relative paths to `Filesystem::makePathRelative()` has been removed.

## 3.4.0

* support for passing relative paths to `Filesystem::makePathRelative()` is deprecated and will be removed in 4.0

## 3.3.0

* added `appendToFile()` to append contents to existing files

## 3.2.0

* added `readlink()` as a platform independent method to read links

## 3.0.0

* removed `$mode` argument from `Filesystem::dumpFile()`

## 2.8.0

* added tempnam() a stream aware version of PHP's native tempnam()

## 2.6.0

* added LockHandler

## 2.3.12

* deprecated dumpFile() file mode argument.

## 2.3.0

* added the dumpFile() method to atomically write files

## 2.2.0

* added a delete option for the mirror() method

## 2.1.0

* 24eb396 : BC Break : mkdir() function now throws exception in case of failure instead of returning Boolean value
* created the component


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