Well I was almost right. Yesterday saw another release of CakePHP 1.2, but instead of being another alpha, or even a beta that I was expecting, this release has been marked as a "Pre-Beta". Which really means it's another Alpha release. But, according to the CakePHP site and Nate - one of Cake's core devs ...

At this point we're done adding new features, but we do still have a couple of features which I consider critical to this release that still need a little clean-up. So, rather than have that hold us up any longer, we decided to do a quick push on the bug fixes and get a release out.

Some of the changes are really nice and much better that before. I am loving the REST support and resources. And you can now see the beginnings of the new 1.2 Manual at http://tempdocs.cakephp.org/. So even though we are not quite at the Beta stage, things are still looking up, and I am hoping to see the first beta released some time in November - but don't quote me on that! Hey, we might even see a release candidate by Christmas!