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Roadmap

This roadmap is a general overview of features and when they are currently planned for. This list is tentative and subject to change.

2.0 (2011)

• ✓ Drop support for PHP4.
• ✓ Remove PHP4 workarounds.
• ✓ Add PHP5 visibility keywords and fix access violations internally.
• ✓ Convert pseudo static classes, to be true static (Cache, Router, App, Configure)
• ✓ Lazy loading Model associations, components, and helpers.
• ✓ Decouple components like Auth and Email.
• ✓ Decouple CacheHelper and View
• ✓ Clean up and improve the console framework.
• ✓ Rebuild Xml using SimpleXml/DOMDocument.
• ✓ Use exceptions, abstract classes, and interfaces where logical.
• ✓ Implement collection classes for Helper, Components, Behaviors and Tasks.

2.1 (late 2011 - early 2012)

• Create an easier to use IniAcl that works well with AuthComponent and solves simple group/role based permissions.
• ✓ Content-Type sensitive generated error pages. (xml, json, etc.)
• ✓ App::build() can register new packages.
• ✓ TextHelper::autoLinkXXX escapes input.
• Additional Router improvements.
  • ✓ /** syntax for getting all trailing arguments as a single parameter.
• ✓ Multiple test connections, for test fixtures. #1839
• TimeHelper improvements. See #1790
• Configure::dump() for creating config files based on different reader formats.
• ✓ Change how 'between' works with radio buttons #1992
• ✓ Add filesize to File::info() https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/pull/202
• ✓ CakeRequest improvements #1995
• ✓ Debugger improvements #1473
• ✓ Improve stack traces on error pages to contain excerpts of files in the stack trace.
• ✓ View blocks and view extensions mark_story
• ✓ Add support for Plugin.view in elements, views, and layouts. mark_story & ceeram
• ✓ Conditional view rendering and correct response status based on request headers and response cache settings jose_zap
• ✓ Move AppModel, AppController and PagesController out of core to app ADmad
• ✓ Priority based triggering of callbacks for objects in ObjectCollection ADmad
• ✓ General purpose Events system

2.2 (mid 2012)

• ✓ New Set class (Hash?) mark_story
  • Improve API consistency.
  • Drop inconsistently implemented features (xpath)
  • Provide more consistent path syntax.
  • Split methods where possible.
  • Reduce recursion to improve performance.
• ✓ Namespaced keys in Cache engines. jose_zap
• ✓ Dispatcher helpers to act as a middleware and act before the route is dispatched. jose_zap
• ✓ Fix timezone support in timehelper ADmad
• ✓ Redis and Memcached cache engines jose_zap
• ✓ Extract model validation into separate object Ceeram, tpl0ch and jose_zap
• ✓ Configure::dump() using configured engines mark_story
• ✓ Fix paginating and count Ceeram
• ✓ Move most logic from DbAcl adapter to Permission model Ceeram
• ✓ Lazy load helpers jose_zap

3.0 (late 2012 / early 2013)

• Drop support for PHP 5.2.x.
• Only support PHP 5.3.2+.
• Add namespaces.
• Finish PSR0 implementation.
• Router changes: mark_story
  • Remove named parameters
  • Add support for named routes as a method to optimize reverse routing.
  • Add better routing prefixes.
• Re-write model layer:
  • Return objects from queries.
  • Fix frankenstein API.
  • Expose a richer query API.