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New releases, tools, and help us with an important CakeFest decision. CakePHP 4 Strawberry [View this email in your browser]( Let's talk CakeFest 2021. We must make an important decision regarding the location of the event. We want to leave it up to the community. Would you prefer: Virtual event: no travel, and low ticket cost or In person event: the chance to visit a great city, and enjoy the event with fellow bakers Please take a moment to vote [HERE]( [CakePHP 4.2.]( Highlights: - Integration tests now persist flash message more reliably when custom view classes are used, and when redirects are performed. - Changes made to FixtureManager were reverted fixing problems with fixture schema management and partial data loading. - API documentation was improved. [CakePHP]( Highlights: - Fixed missing parenthesis on subqueries in SQLServer. - Fixed incorrect bindings when ordering queries by expressions in SQLServer. - Fix Hash::mergeDiff() not handling scalar values during merging well. [CakePHP IDE Helper 1.]( Highlights: From Dereuromark: With PHPStorm 2020.3.1 they finally fixed the broken behavior around meta data and trait/inheritance usage. Now it works as expected for PHP and as such we can now ship some really awesome and useful new features for it: - Entity auto-complete/suggest for setDirty(), setError(), getOriginal() and others - Component unload() auto-complete/suggest [CakePHP SwaggerBake 1.6.5]( Highlights: - Upgrades SwaggerUI and Redoc to the latest versions [#230]( - Adds support for CakePHP 4.2 and PHP 8.0 [#227]( THANKS FOR BAKING, [Training Course]( Getting started with CakePHP 4 Host: [Cake Development Corporation]( DATE: February 18, 2021 TIME: 04:00 PM TIMEZONE: (GMT) Western Europe Time Want To Stay Up-To-Date? Lot's of changes and new features are on the way for 2021! Want to get involved? If you're interested in contributing and supporting the community then we'd love for you to join us, there are a variety of ways to get involved and help out. See more details: [( Be sure to follow CakePHP on [Twitter]( & [Facebook](. Releases, announcements, and all things Cake will be posted here! Have a CakePHP question? The community is available to help. Visit one of these support channels for help with baking: Discourse forum: []( Stack Overflow: [( IRC: [( Slack: []( CakePHP 4 Upgrade Service - By CakeDC The team from [CakeDC]( is offering a special that you can't miss! Get your CakePHP 2/3 app upgraded to CakePHP 4 by the CakeDC team, at a discounted special rate! Interested in finding out more? [Contact them today!]( *T&Cs apply [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Website]( [Email](mailto:community@cakephp.org) [GitHub]( [YouTube]( Copyright © 2016 [Cake Software Foundation, Inc.]( All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](