CakePHP 2.1.4, 2.2, and a pick into 3.0

There’s been a stream of good news from the CakePHP headquarters recently.  If you are as slow as me on catching up with these things, here is a quick summary.

• CakePHP 2.1.4 has been release, and that’ll be the last release for the 2.1 branch.  It’s time to move on.
• CakePHP 2.2 stable has been released, and that’s what you should be using for your projects.
• CakePHP 3.0 has been mentioned, so if you are interested in contributing early, here is your chance.

CakePHP 3.0 will take a few month to develop.  Mainly, the work is focused around the following:

• Drop support for PHP 5.2.
• Add and improve support of PHP 5.4+.
• Reorganized CakePHP classes to use namespaces to avoid collisions with other libraries and classes.
• Improve bootstrapping for better control by developers.
• Rewrite the model layer to support more drivers, object mapping, richer API, etc.
• Rewrite the routing to work faster and be more flexible.

Overall, it looks like some really healthy activity in CakePHP project.