Over a year after CakePHP 2.0 was announced, the team released Release Candidate 1 yesterday. It’s a very exciting news for all Cake developers. CakePHP 2.0 will not work on PHP4 systems anymore. It integrates SimpleTest, a new rewriting URLs structure, better handling in Authentication and new PDO drivers to work the same with different databases.

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