Recently in the CraftCMS world... The inaugural Dot All conference was a big success. Pixel & Tonic announced some exciting things: the Craft 3 GA release date (4/4/18), new licenses, a CKEditor 5 fieldtype, and more. Michael and Andrew talk about the talks they liked, their takeaways from the conference as a whole, and how they don't want to do anything except hack on Craft 3 stuff 'til April. (n.b. Michael had pants on for the entire duration of this recording.)

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#dotall2017 Recap

Recently in the CraftCMS world... Michael and Andrew have been talking and writing about AMP — and Craft is the perfect CMS for implementing AMP content! Solspace released Freeform. Toronto and Melbourne have upcoming Meetups. Michael attempts to speak 'Strayan; Andrew is jealous.

AMP-ing up your content, Solspace Freeform, Meetups, and kangaroos

Recently in the CraftCMS world... Pixel & Tonic announced that Craft 3 will support multi-site setups by expanding the concept of locales into "sites."

Multi-Site features coming to Craft 3

Recently in the CraftCMS world... PT has ported all the 2.5 and 2.6 functionality to the 3.x branch, which means Craft 3 beta is coming in hot. We talk about how Yii 2 is the focus for the 3.0 release, and why this is awesome.

Craft 3 is awake again, and Yii 2 is AWESOME

Recently in the CraftCMS world... Build 2.6.2791, Craft's first ever critical update, addresses a clever template injection vulnerability. Pixel & Tonic released a fix in less than 24 hours from initial disclosure, and you should definitely make sure you've updated. In this episode, Brad Bell walks us through how the exploit works and how they patched it.

Craft CMS Critical Update: Info from P&T's Brad Bell

Recently in the Craft CMS world... ImageMagick (used by many Craft installs) has a security vulnerability. Michael & Andrew talk about the details and emphasize the importance of keeping your software up-to-date. We also talk about some emerging security best practices for Craft CMS as well as a new security audit plugin Sherlock.

The Security Episode: Craft Security best practices, ImageMagick, Sherlock, and more

Recently in the CraftCMS world... Andrew had a birthday and released a truckload of new stuff: Retour (for handling 404 redirects), Recipe, and generator-craftinstall (Yeoman generator for bootstrapping CraftCMS projects). Michael released Hue, a color picker fieldtype w/ true null values for empty colors. Solspace released a massive new Calendar plugin. And, if you're in Europe, you should definitely plan to come to GeeUp.

Andrew's birthday presents to everybody, Solspace Calendar, and COME TO GEEUP!

Recently in the CraftCMS world... Craft now utilizes eager loading on the element index pages for a much faster CP experience. Template Modes are the new template paths. Straight Up Craft added elastic search for plugins, and craftplug.in launched. PicPuller is back! Printmaker got an upgrade; PDFs are now emailable.

Eager loading in the CP, template modes, deprecation errors, PDF emailing, and more!

Lately in the CraftCMS world... Craft 2.6 brings lots of new goodies: Eager loading for elements, a new Charts library, better link controls in Rich Text editor fields, customizable Client account permissions, and much more!

Craft 2.6 is here! Eager loading! Rich Text links! Lange deutsche Wörter!

Lately in the CraftCMS world... Craft Kint enables powerful PHP debugging in Craft templates. Papertrail enables Craft templates and plugins to publish events to a live, aggregated log feed. Flexibility provides a robust polyfill that enables Flexbox directives in legacy browsers. And, Pixel & Tonic's Craft Case Studies show that CraftCMS is being adopted and trusted in big-name, high-stakes projects.

Debugging tools, a Flexbox polyfill, and Craft Case Studies

Lately in the CraftCMS world... Fred Carlsen & Mats Mikkel Rummelhoff ported Lettering.js into a plugin: Craft Lettering. Sprout Email now supports several Craft Commerce events. Philip Zaengle and his team integrated Craft Commerce with a reservation booking system and wrote about it in their blog. Straight Up Hangouts are back, starting with an Introduction to Craft Commerce with Luke Holder. Ctrl+Click+Cast did an episode about "Practical Pricing" that everyone should listen to. And, John Morton released a new installment of the Craft Link List.

Lettering, Sprout Email, Reservations + Commerce, Straight Up Hangouts, & a new Link List

Lately in the CraftCMS world... Search Plus brings elastic search to Craft via Algolia. The null coalescing operator is now available natively in Twig, so it'll hopefully be coming to Craft sometime soon. The latest report shows CraftCMS owning 0.1% market share among top CMSs. PeersConf opened their 2016 Call for Proposals. GeeUp tickets are on sale; Come hang out with Michael in Leiden this summer!

Search Plus, The Continuing Saga of ??, CraftCMS market share, PeersConf, GeeUp

Lately in the CraftCMS world... Reasons helps you show/hide fields based on the content of other fields; use with caution. Embedded Assets lets you treat remote content (YouTube/Vimeo/etc.) like native Assets. Sprout Reports is ready to play; check out the slick new API for defining your own reports/sources. The first-party Contact Form plugin has gotten some sweet upgrades and is probably more powerful than you realize. And, most of P&T's plugins are now MIT-licensed!

Sprout Reports, Reasons, Embedded Assets, Contact Form, and P&T's plugins are MIT-licensed!

Lately in the CraftCMS world... Andrew Welch released PluginFactory.io, a Yeoman generator for Craft plugins, and SEOmatic. Michael released QQ and hopes that everyone starts using the null coalescing operator. Rob Sanchez wrote a Craft CLI. And, best news of the week... Craft's rich text editor now lets you add your own URL fragments to Entry links.

PluginFactory.io, SEOmatic, Null coalescing, Craft CLI, and I CAN PUT URL FRAGMENTS IN MY RICH TEXT EDITOR!!!!

Short conversations wherein we help you keep up with the goings-on of the Craft CMS world (and web development in general) by highlighting stuff that happened that we think is worth a look. #craftcms

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