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The CakePHP development team is happy to announce the release the CakePHP 1.3-beta. We've been hard at work implementing new features and fixing issues in existing features in the 1.3 branch. Since 1.3-alpha there have been more than 600 commits and more than 43 tickets have been closed. A number of new features have been implemented most notably, Model virtualFields[1], changes to the plugin and theme assets[2], improvements to TimeHelpers ability to output i18n friendly formats, and a refactored test suite harness[3]. When upgrading to 1.3-beta it is recommended that you replace app/webroot/test.php with the one in the repository and check out the Migration Guide[4] as well as the new features guides [5] for changed and new features in 1.3.

In other project news, all the previous stable release points for 1.2 have been retagged and are available in github. We've brought on two new team members in the past few months as well, both ADmad, and jose_zap have joined the CakePHP team and are helping with all aspects of the project. Moving forward with 1.3 we are not planning on adding changes that break backwards compatibility. Any methods currently generating errors will be removed in the first Release Candidate. It is important that you listen to the warnings, as they will become fatal errors in the future.

If you would like to help with the ongoing development of 1.3, you can do so in a number of ways. Firstly, filing clear and concise tickets for any issues helps get the issues resolved quickly. Secondly, you can also contribute by forking the CakePHP project on github and implementing fixes, tests cases and features on your forks. You can use pull requests or tickets to notify core team members about your changes.

Finally, we'd like to thank you the community for the their greatly increased and ongoing support and contributions. Since our move to github and lighthouse the volume of community contributions has had a dramatic increase, and we'd like to thank the many contributors for their help in improving CakePHP.

Download a packaged release [6]
View the changelog [7]
[1] http://cakephp.lighthouseapp.com/projects/42648/13-new-features-virtual-fields
[2] http://cakephp.lighthouseapp.com/projects/42648/13-new-features-plugin-assets
[3] http://cakephp.lighthouseapp.com/projects/42648/1-3-new-features-test-suite
[4] http://cakephp.lighthouseapp.com/projects/42648/13-migration-guide
[5] http://cakephp.lighthouseapp.com/projects/42648/13-new-features
[6] http://github.com/cakephp/cakephp1x/downloads
[7] http://cakephp.lighthouseapp.com/projects/42648/changelog-1-3-0-beta