Yes there are quite a lot of features added to the package:
- Request validation
- Localization (for validation error messages and regular text)
- Authentication (with built-in Basic Auth and JWT authenticators, directly using your User model. You can easily implement your own authenticators too)
- CORS
- Status handlers (for default responses depending on the response status when the body is empty, handy for error handling)
- Logging (using Common or Combined log format. You can implement your own formatters too)
- Advanced testing with test suites making it easy to write functional tests, unit tests for your middleware, etc.
- Database testing with record generators and seeders
- Many helpers to make your life easier (that includes multi-values header parsing, file management, automatic 404 when a database record is not found, etc). There are a lot of small things!
- An extensive and pretty documentation. This aspect very important to me.
I try to make it as flexible as possible to let developers implement things for their specific needs without having to fork the framework.