CakeFest is upon us!

CakeFest schedule details, and giveaways! CakePHP 4 Strawberry [View this email in your browser]( CakeFest Speaker Spotlight DAY 1 - WORKSHOPS September 29, 2022 - 12:00 UTC Workshop 1 - Jorge Gonzalez A small application in CakePHP Workshop 2 - Kevin Pfeifer This workshop will focus on getting a deeper understanding of how the new Authentication & Authorization plugins work. Workshop 3 - Mark Story In this workshop, we'll be building an API endpoint and using the new content-type negotiation. DAY 2 - TALKS September 30, 2022 - 12:00UTC Keynote Speaker Our Keynote talk will be presented by Remy Bertot from Passbolt Yuki Kanazawa Generation Gap Pattern on CakePHP4 Paul Hendriks Refactor with Factory design pattern Jiri Havlicek How we build an API-first software in CakePHP4 Tomas Votruba How to Instantly Upgrade your CakePHP 2 to 4 in Minutes Damien Seguy Plugin compatibility checker for CakePHP Viraj Khatavkar New Awesome Features of PHP8 Daniel Melchior Integrating CakePHP with GraphQL Dave Stokes MySQL Indexes and Histograms to Speed Up Your Queries Christopher Miller Clean, Concise, Collaborative Code Edward Barnard Strategic Domain-Driven Design in CakePHP: How to Get Organized and Get Started Alex Mayer Baking with Galley TICKETS AVAILABLE! CakeFest 2022 is our next virtual CakePHP conference. Tickets are now available, along with the full workshop & talk schedule at [CakeFest.org](. Interested in group tickets? Contact us at [cakefest@cakephp.org](mailto:cakefest@cakephp.org?subject=Group%20Tickets) Purchase your ticket this week and you will be entered to win some CakePHP swag cash to spend in our online store! [CakePHP 4.4.]( Highlights: - Improved handling of authentication errors in Smtp email transport. - Re-enabled displaying arguments in stack frames on development error pages. - Improved API documentation. - Fixed diffForHumans() not translating text based on the current locale. - The ValidatableInterface is now deprecated. - Fixed mocking services in tests with mockService() for services that are provided by reflection based container delegates. Contributors: ADmad, celsowm, Chris Nizzardini, Iacovos Constantinou, Marcelo Rocha, Mark Scherer, Mark Story, othercorey REMINDER 3.x HAS REACHED END OF LIFE! 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. We are now in SECURITY SUPPORT ONLY. - 3.10 will continue to receive security fixes until December 15 of 2022. CakePHP 4 Training Series Kevin Pfeifer has created a 9 part series to help beginners (& experts!) with some common features. [WATCH HERE]( GIVEAWAY: share your thoughts on the YouTube videos for a chance to win some SWAG CASH (credit to use in our CakePHP Swag shop). We will pick a winner by random draw. PLUGIN SPOTLIGHT FriendsOfCake - bootstrap-ui RELEASED: latest version is 4.0.1. See details [HERE](. Have a CakePHP question? The community is available to help. Visit one of these support channels for help with baking: Discourse forum: []( Stack Overflow: [( IRC: [( Slack: []( CakePHP 4 Upgrade Service - By CakeDC The team from [CakeDC]( is offering upgrade services! Get your CakePHP 2/3 app upgraded to CakePHP 4 by the CakePHP experts. Interested in finding out more? [Contact them today!]( *T&Cs apply [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Website]( [Email](mailto:community@cakephp.org) [GitHub]( [YouTube]( Copyright © 2016 [Cake Software Foundation, Inc.]( All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](