Completed roadmaps

2.5 (early 2014)

✓ Add Security::encrypt() and Security::decrypt() as wrappers around mcrpyt + AES-256. markstory
✓ Add Memcached caching engine. kamisama
✓ Add Cache::remember() to make it simple to do read-through caching. markstory
✓ Avoid starting session if it's known to be empty. ADmad
✓ CompletionShell added.
✓ Event priorities between global and local events are unified.

✓ 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
✓ Add support for timezone and DateTime objects in CakeTime ADmad, jellehenkens
✓ 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

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

✓ 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.