Wrapping another delicious year!

A special note, new releases and more! CakePHP 5 Chiffon [View this email in your browser]( Dear CakePHP Core Development Team and CakePHP Community, Here it is.... the end to another great year. So many contributions, added core members, a physical CakeFest event and more. I know we are all excited for the holiday season, and I want to take a moment to express my thanks to all of you. This year we are celebrating 18 years of CakePHP, and that would not be possible without our core team and community. CakePHP Core Development Team: I don't know how to put into words how thankful I am for your dedication, hard work, and commitment to the framework. The CakePHP 5 release was absolutely amazing, and I know that is a direct reflection of our team. I look forward to working with you even more in 2024. THANK YOU ALL! CakePHP Community: Your contributions, help, and interactions have created such an inclusive community that is more than just code. Thank you for being such an important part of our framework. 2023 really has been an unforgettable chapter in the CakePHP book (see what I did there?). Wishing you all Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year. Larry Masters aka PhpNut Cofounder CakePHP What's to come for CakePHP in 2024? - More tutorials! Core member Kevin Pfeifer (and others!) plan to do a lot more Cake training support. Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel, so you don't miss it! - Progress is being made regarding migrations dropping dependency on sphinx. View details [HERE](. - A CakePHP 5.1 release (and maybe even 5.2!) - Additional community support options / active contributions [CakePHP 4.5.2]( Improvements: - Fix regression in plugin translation file loading order. - Marshalling Date values no longer sets a timezone. - Fix inconsistency between Error.beforeRender and Exception.beforeRender. You can now stop this event to prevent output being rendered, or set your own result to bypass the default renderer just like error handling. - Added more deprecation annotations for easier upgrading to 5.x. - Fix off by one errors in dd(). Contributors: ADmad, Jens Mischer, Kevin Pfeifer, Marc de Lima Lucio, Marc Würth, Mark Scherer, Mark Story, othercorey, Robert Pustułka [CakePHP 5.0.3]( Improvements: - Update path to plugin_class_error.php. - Expanded enum support to include providing a label. Implementing Cake\Database\Type\EnumLabelInterface in your enum class will allow you to provide a user facing label. Labels are used by FormHelper when generating controls. - Improved validation support for enums. - Widened type of $format in TimeHelper::format(). - Support for PHP 8.3 - Fixed significant performance regression in intl date and datetime formatting. Serializing dates and datetimes now cache intl formatters restoring performance to 4.x levels. - Improved support for binaryuuid type across database platforms. - Improved readability of missing route pages by collapsing the route list by default. - Improve support for indexes on generated columns in SQLite. - Improved internal tooling for maintaining consistency in split packages. Contributors: ADmad, Corey Taylor, Kevin Pfeifer, kolorafa, Marcelo Rocha, Mark Scherer, Mark Story, Mauro Brandoni, ndm2, Oliver Nowak, othercorey, Umer Salman, wowDAS Markus Ramšak Holiday Gifting We know it's hard to come up with gift ideas for friends and family. We are making it easy to buy for the developers in your life! Check out all of the items in our CakePHP Store and check off your list. Everyone loves a gift certificate! Want to buy for yourself? We won't judge. [( Get 10% off with code: SUB10 PLUGIN SPOTLIGHT CakePHP Localized This plugin contains various localized validation classes for specific countries. It's now stable for CakePHP 5! See the latest release notes [HERE](. See plugin details: [( CakePHP Templating Plugin A new plugin to - make working with HTML and helpers more convenient - provide (font) icons from various libraries out of the box - together with IdeHelper also provide auto-complete on those icons Latest release:[0.2.0]( See details: [( CakePHP 5 - CHIFFON! Make an upgrade part of your New Year's resolution list! We've made it easier than ever, with the CakePHP 5 upgrade guide and tool. [UPGRADE GUIDE]( [UPGRADE TOOL]( Want to share your thoughts? Tell us [HERE](mailto:community@cakephp.org?subject=Cake5%20Wishes). Have a CakePHP question? The community is available to help. 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