As expected since the the changes that were made within the core team a few weeks ago, a final release candidate of CakePHP 1.2 is very imminent. It has just been announced on the Bakery, that a stable version will be arriving very soon. In fact, I have it on good authority that the first release candidate could be available as early as next week.

There has been a lot more activity on IRC and within the Changesets recently, so hats off to all involved, and the Cake Book is becoming so much better every time I see it.

But, as emphasized in the official announcement on Tim and Felix’s blog, we need help to squash those remaining bugs. Please join us in the newly created IRC room: #cakephp-dv on freenode.net and offer your assistance however you can.

Here’s to a bright future.

Back in February in sunny Orlando, I gave a presention on why and how one should use CakePHP Migrations. I think the presentation went down well, but when it came to the Q&A at the end of the session, a few issues were raised that - quite honestly - I hadn’t actually thought about. It’s not that I didn’t know about them, it’s just that I never came across them to make them a problem for me. But since I began to actually use Migrations in a team of developers, I have come to understand some issues that could potentially be a deal breaker for some teams and users.

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If you haven’t already read, Gwoo has just made an official announcement on the state of the CakePHP project and when we can expect a 1.2 final release.

As mentioned in my last post, the management has changed slightly:

The evolving team will still include the core team, with me as Project Manager helping to usher in new developers and provide opportunity for more people to get involved, PhpNut acting in an advisor’s role, ensuring that the right code gets implemented and more people learn the magic of CakePHP, Nate taking the lead role in the implementation of the core code, and John continuing to lead the documentation efforts.

So things are looking very promising in terms of a 1.2 release happening within a matter of weeks.

But the best thing about this announcement, is that I am now listed as an official contributor to the core framework. So expect some code from people!

It’s all go in Cake land! This past week has seen some big changes in management [style] at the open source project, which has seen PHPNut temporarily step down as the lead developer of the project. And as a result, we’ve witnessed an increase on the amount of developers actually contributing to the core, including little ol’ me! I committed one or two test cases over the weekend, and have seen two of my contributed patches become applied to the 1.2 branch.

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Yes, it’s another release, but just a small one. Grab it from its Google code repo

The main change is the support of Cake’s UUID column naming. By default Migrations will use normal auto-increment ID columns. If you want to use the UUID columns, then you just need to set $use_uuid = true.

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