CakePHP 2.0.0-RC1 Hot and fresh

The CakePHP core team is proud to announce the immediate availability
of CakePHP 2.0.0-RC1[1]. 2.0.0-RC1 marks the beggining of the release
candidate process for 2.0.0. From this point forward no additional
new features or backwards incompatabile changes will be made to
CakePHP 2.0. We plan on having 3 RC releases, and if there are no
outstanding large issues we will release the final version. Read the
changelog[2] or download the release[1].

At this time the oracle driver is incomplete, and is waiting on
getting a reliable and usable oracle connection setup. For now the
Oracle driver has been removed, but we hope that throughout the RC
process oracle functionality will be restored and more fully featured
than before.

Since 2.0.0-beta there have been over 180 commits and 50 tickets
resolved. There have been no major features
added since the beta release. A few small features have been added:

* The API docs have been revised, corrected and expanded in many
places.
* New generic bake theme. The default bake theme has been refreshed to
use more CSS3 and modern properites, to give a sexier bake experience.
* SQL errors now raise exceptions instead of outputting warnings.
* `Debugger::output()` has been deprecated and replaced with
`Debugger::outputAs()` and `Debugger::addFormat()`.
* Router::mapResources() works with plugins now.
* RequestHandlerComponent::prefers() now correctly respects client `q`
value preferences. CakeRequest::accepts() does as well.
* CakeEmail has had a number of improvements made around API
consistency, and ease of use.
* Router extensions are no longer under `$this->request->params['url']
['ext']`. Instead they can be found at `$this->request-
>params['ext']`.
* A constant `TIME_START` has been added to with the microtime of the
request start.
* APC, Memcache, and Wincache engines only clear values matching the
prefix when `Cache::clear()` is used.
* Visibility of methods many has been updated.

As CakePHP goes through the RC process, no additional new features
will be added. The team will focus on getting
the changes for 2.0 stable, completing the new documentation[3], and
updating API documentation with more
examples.

We're also proud to announce the availability of http://ci.cakephp.org[4].
Going forward CakePHP will have all of its unit tests run against
MySQL, Sqlite,
and Postgresql after each commit. The results of these unit tests
will be published for the community as well. We hope this additional
automation and
continuous integration will help increase the quality of CakePHP.

A huge thanks to all involved in terms of both contributions through
commits, tickets, documentation edits, and otherwise contribute to the
framework. Without you there would be no CakePHP.

Download a packaged release [1]
View the changelog [2]

Links

* [1] http://github.com/cakephp/cakephp
* [2] http://cakephp.org/changelogs/2.0.0-RC1
* [3] http://github.com/cakephp/docs
* [4] http://ci.cakephp.org

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