The CakePHP core team is proud to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 2.3.0-beta[1]. This release contains several new features that improves CakePHP performance, security and ease of use. When it is done, this new version is intended to be a replacement for the 2.2.x branch and will be completely backwards compatible. A migration guide is provided in the book [2] and we encourage you to read it if you are upgrading from an older version.