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.)

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.