# Lithium 0.8 - And then there were 2 With just two more releases to go, we're closing in on the final stable API for the Lithium framework. Soon, businesses will be able to adopt the framework for their development, confident in the knowledge that it provides a solid, stable API to build on. However, we're already very excited to see some advanced early adopters, especially the venerable [ Analog](http://analog.coop), who are developing their first (as-yet-unannounced) project on Lithium. We're very honored to be the beneficiaries of their input and expertise. This release includes many new features, including: - A fully refactored test suite. The test suite is now more flexible, with better support for automated tooling. - A completely rewritten strategies implementation for `Adaptable`. The strategies system is extremely powerful, and allows far-reaching yet fine-grained control over all the inputs and outputs of your application. - Powered by the new strategies system is the newly-minted support for automatic HMAC-signing of session and cookie data, the most secure storage mechanism possible for your data. - Support for HTML5 form elements in the `Form` helper. - Many other small features and performance optimizations. **API Changes** - The parameter list for `lithium\storage\Cache::write()` has changed. Please see the updated API for details. - For better internal API consistency, `lithium\data\Model::__init()` no longer accepts a parameter. Change your code to use the `config()` method to get the same functionality. At this point we're very interested to see what developers begin to do with a newer and far more powerful set of tools. While we can't promise that APIs won't change between now and 1.0, we can say confidently that most of the APIs currently in the core are fairly stabilized and ready to be taken advantage of. As with previous point-releases, any BC-breaking changes and all associated migration instructions will be fully documented in the release notes. Check out [wiki:releases/0_8 the full list of changes], then [download it](http://rad-dev.org/lithium/versions) and take it for a spin! ~ nate