I concur with Joel the update from 7056 to 7111 was massive, another sizable
update since then too
and the Newton quote seems ever so appropriate too
thanks - S
2008/6/5 Joel Perras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Kudos to the whole team. From the SVN logs, I can tell that the last
> few weeks have been quite the furious rush of bugfixes and
> enhancements to push out this RC. Your efforts are greatly and
> sincerely appreciated, and is the reason why CakePHP outperforms any
> other PHP framework in existence.
>
> -Joel.
>
> --
> "If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants"
> -I. Newton
>
> On Jun 4, 6:49 pm, Gwoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > We are very happy to announce the latest release of the best and most
> > popular framework for web development. The release marks a great
> > milestone for CakePHP, where we involved more developers, implemented
> > better code coverage (with analysis!), received more contributions
> > from more community members, and ended up with a stable and feature
> > rich 1.2 release candidate [1].
> >
> > This release is not without it's major changes, but thankfully this
> > should be the last of those. The two most significant changes come in
> > the usage of conditions and the deprecation of several methods.
> >
> > Query conditions have always been a concern of ours, for the obvious
> > reason of helping developers maintain secure applications. We found
> > that in some cases, it was possible to work around what Cake expects
> > to produce undesirable results. To help ensure that applications are
> > secure with no extra effort on the part of the developer, we have
> > moved all operators used in conditions to the "key" side. For example,
> > $conditions = array('Model.field >' => $value); is the new syntax. We
> > have maintained backwards compatibility for the most common cases, you
> > will need to update your affected application code.
> >
> > Deprecation is something we do our best to avoid, but sometimes in the
> > interest of a simple, pure API we make the move to remove some of
> > those old methods that have given way to simpler code.
> > View::renderElement() is one such method that has given way to
> > View::element(); You will not see a notice in this release, however,
> > the next release will throw a notice and in the subsequent release the
> > method will be removed completely. Speaking of removed methods, any
> > deprecated code that existed prior to this release is now gone. There
> > are a few other methods, mainly some more of those found in basics
> > that have been deprecated. Check out the changelog[2] and have a look
> > at the API[3] to see where these changes were made.
> >
> > We also have exciting new enhancements in this release of Cake 1.2. We
> > already alluded to the code coverage analysis. Code coverage is
> > helping to ensure that we test as many lines of code as possible. If
> > you have XDebug installed, you can take advantage of this nice
> > feature. Another highly desirable feature has been additional support
> > for more advanced queries. To help in this area we added the
> > ContainableBehavior. The behavior is a optimized combination of the
> > code used by Felix (in his behavior by the same name) and Mariano (in
> > the BindableBehavior). If you were using either of these two behaviors
> > before you may notice some slight changes to syntax, but overall the
> > functionality makes for very powerful find operations. Several other
> > more minor enhancements trickled their way into the core, and we will
> > leave you to peruse the changelog[2] for those.
> >
> > With all of these improvements and updates, being a CakePHP developer
> > and building new projects on CakePHP is better than ever. To help out
> > the project and everyone in the community, we have partnered with
> > EliteOpenSourceJobs.com. EliteOpenSourceJobs.com is a start-up that
> > aims to help open source communities raise funds through hosting their
> > own job boards. They make it simple and painless for communities like
> > ours to provide a service for developers and employers to create new
> > applications and technology together. Check out the CakePHP job board
> > athttp://cakephp.org/jobs. Posting to the job board carries a fee,
> > but we do that to ensure that the post is legitimate and to help the
> > continued growth of CakePHP.
> >
> > We have also begun using Ohloh Journals to let the everyone know what
> > is going on. You can see the feed of CakePHP team members on the
> > CakePHP.org homepage and Planet. Ohloh is great resource that helps us
> > keep track of the project. Check it out and follow us on the
> > journals[4].
> >
> > Overall, more than 800 revisions have produced this release. We must
> > thank everyone who contributed to the effort by writing tests,
> > creating patches, and committing code. We hope you all enjoy the
> > release and look forward to a quick release candidate cycle.
> >
> > Bake on.
> >
> > [1]http://cakeforge.org/projects/cakephp/
> > [2]http://trac.cakephp.org/wiki/changelog/1.2.x.x
> > [3]http://api.cakephp.org/1.2/deprecated.html
> > [4]http://ohloh.net/projects/cakephp/messages
> >
>
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