October Newsletter: The CakeFest Edition!

CakeFest 2021 Recap CakePHP 4 Strawberry [View this email in your browser]( Thank you to our sponsors, speakers, staff, and attendees for making this a great event! We were able to provide giveaways, speaker gifts, services and save 40% for our next event! As a subscriber, you will get full access to the videos HERE before they are all released. Workshop 1: Jorge Gonzalez LINK: [( Workshop 2: Michael Hoffmann LINK: [( Workshop 3: Mark Story LINK: [( [Keynote speaker Passbolt - Juan Pablo Ramirez]( [Sho Ito - Components Reconsidered]( [Yuki Kanazawa - Automatically Distributing Reference Queries to Read Replica in CakePHP4]( [Mark Scherer - Leverage the IDE in CakePHP development]( [Jiri Havlicek - Fighting COVID-19 with Contact Tracing in Czech Republic]( [Christopher Miller - Our Standards and Why We Use Them]( [Kevin Phifer - How to re-use code - Utility Classes and PHP Namespace]( [Paul Henriks - Creating plugin]( [Ed Barnard - Here Be Dragons: Finding the Joy in Software Development]( [Chris Hartjes - A Grumpy Programmer's Guide to being a senior developer]( [Joe Ferguson - Modern Infrastructure as code with Ansible]( [Timo Stark - NGINX Unit - Modernise your CakePHP deployments]( Check out Amanda's CakeFest Recap Blog Wondering what you missed and what's to come? Read the blog on CakeDC.com here: [( Join the #CakeFest chat on our Slack channel []( [CakePHP]( Highlights: - TestCase::deprecated() now raises an assertion error if the callback doesn't trigger any deprecations. - Improved API documentation and static analysis tool typing. - Improved error messages from incorrect Command classes. - Fixed behavior of cascading deletes when bindingKey values are null. - Improved stack references for deprecation warnings. - Deprecated ModelAwareTrait. Use the new LocatorAwareTrait features instead. - Added LocatorAwareTrait::fetchTable() as a simpler API to get ORM Table instances. - Added LocatorAwareTrait::$defaultTable. This property replaces $modelClass. - +MORE Contributors: ADmad, Corey Taylor, Mark Scherer, Mark Story, ndm2, othercorey, Rolf Kaiser, saeideng [CakePHP]( Highlights: - View::addHelpers() was added and the $merge flag of setHelpers() was deprecated. - Association::setName() was deprecated. - A type error in CsrfProtectionMiddleware was fixed. This error could be triggered if cookie data was invalid. - MailContains only escapes patterns once noce. - Fixture cleanup performance was improved for SQLServer. - BaseLog::resolve() was renamed to BaseLog::interpolate(). - +MORE Contributors: ADmad, Corey Taylor, Juan Pablo Ramirez, Julian Pollmann, Kevin Pfeifer, Mark Scherer, Mark Story, othercorey REMINDER! Previously 3.9 was the last planned feature release for 3.x and bug fix releases were planned to stop after June 15 2021. Because of continued interest and usage of 3.x we've decided to extend the 3.x maintenance timeline and release 3.10. The new timelines are: - 3.10 will continue to receive bug fixes until December 15 2021. - 3.10 will continue to receive security fixes until December 15 of 2022. Formed in 2007 by Larry Masters, the founder of CakePHP, the Cake Development Corporation provides professional development and consultancy services for startups, as well as small medium and enterprise level businesses. No other company can match CakeDC's level of professionalism, creativity, and commitment to the CakePHP framework. Each of our projects is a labor of love, and you'll see our passion shine through every one of our creations. Sponsor link: [( Passbolt is an open source password manager for teams developed with CakePHP. It was designed from the ground up with the needs of technical and digital teams in mind. Passbolt is different because it is available on-premise, provides better collaboration, real end to end encryption and more granular access-rights controls. 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