• Added BaseQueryParser::getIncludes method for easier usage with Encoder::withIncludedPaths (#243)

Overall, versions 3 and 4 are nearly identical and the main changes were made in SchemaInterface. An extra parameter ContextInterface was added to SchemaInterface::getAttributes and SchemaInterface::getRelationships.

The context contains extra information about the resource such as its position in the data tree and encoder options such as filter fieldset and included paths. The context might be used for smarter loading resources from a database.

More in Upgrade Notes.

Improved/fixed setting up include paths #238

• Fixed usage of Identifiers in arrays (e.g. to-many and belongs-to-many relationships) #235.

• Improved extensibility. Thanks to @66mm added a sample of how to add wildcards support to include paths. #231

• Added extra checks for data returned from user's Schemas. If the returned data are not convertible to JSON it will cause an error with detailed information where the developer should fix the issue. #230

Thanks to contributions and ideas from @PabloKowalczyk performance increased for 10%+ #227 #228

• Added support for upcoming JSON API v1.1;
• Increased performance * (2,3X faster for small data sets with only a few resources and 5,4X faster for big data sets between v2 and v3);
• Added some improvements and fixes #218, #221, #223, #224

• Added #223
• Fixed #224