Planet CakePHP

Cake 1.3 has been around for quite some time now, but I never had the desire to upgrade with it being in such a beginning stage. Well seeing as how its now in Alpha and many users are testing it with no problems, I thought it would be a good idea. The project I was going to upgrade is quite large, heres a quick rundown of just how large:19 controllers, 8 components, 15 locales, 64 models, 2 plugins, 6 vendors, 8 stylesheets, 14 javascripts, 7 helpers, 159 views
This isn't counting the admin panel, which is a whole separate app, and which I have not upgraded yet. Now lets get onto the upgrade, its probably the easiest thing to do. All I did was follow the migration guide. First off was checking to see if I used any deprecated methods, which was simple, all I did was search the whole app folder for words like del(. I was surprised to find I used it like 5 times, when I always preferred the full delete().
Next in the list was upgrading to the new Router conventions, which lucky for me didn't apply. I never used any non basic conventions, I mean why would you! One thing that bugged me though is the new page title implementation. It took me quite a while to go through all those controllers, and all the actions within them. Another nuisance was adding "echo" to all the flash() calls in the views, and removing the "inline" parameter from all meta() and css() calls, but wasn't too time consuming.
One of my most favorite updates was the new pagination support with passedArgs. I had to hack all my paging before, but in the new update I removed it all and it worked wonderfully! Thanks Cake team :]
All in all, the upgrade went smooth. If you follow Cake conventions all the way through, you don't need to do much alterations. I for one am looking forward to the future versions.