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CakePHP v4.0.0-RC1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-11-16 // over 4 years ago

  • πŸš€ The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 4.0.0-RC1. This is the first release candidate for 4.0.0, and contains all the major features that are planned for 4.0.0. If no major issues are reported a stable release will be packaged in a few weeks.

    ⚑️ Updating to the RC

    ⬆️ You can use composer to upgrade to the beta version of CakePHP 4.0.0:

    php composer.phar require --update-with-dependencies "cakephp/cakephp:4.0.0-RC1"

    πŸš€ We would greatly appreciate it if you temporarily upgraded your application, and ran your tests. By opening issues for any regressions in the release candidate, we can help ensure a smoother release of 4.0.0 before the stable release.

    What's new in 4.0.0?

    ⬆️ The migration guide has a complete list of what's new in 4.0.0, and what has been deprecated. We recommend you give that page a read when upgrading.

    πŸ”„ Changes since 4.0.0-beta4

    • A new compact route _path format has been added to Router::url(). This new format accepts the same Controller::action format that route definition can use.
    • πŸ“¦ The http and console libraries have had standalone packages created.
    • πŸ‘» Development error pages now preserve inline code highlighting and newlines in exception messages.
    • πŸ—„ SecurityComponent is now deprecated, and replaced by the FormProtectionComponent.
    • πŸ“¦ The ConsoleErrorHandler was moved to the Error package.
    • Validation::time() now accepts microseconds.
    • πŸ‘ SameSite cookie support was added for PHP>7.3.0
    • πŸ†• New database types for char, datetimefractional and timestampfractional were added. The new datetime types allow representation of time values including microseconds.
    • InstanceConfigTrait::getConfigOrFail() was added.
    • πŸ†• New isLinkedTo and isNotLinkedTo rules were added to ORM\RulesChecker.
    • 0️⃣ Date and FrozenDate objects now use the default timezone instead of UTC. This fixes problems where 'today' would not always be today depending on your distance from UTC.
    • πŸ”¨ Controller action dispatching was refactored to make adding a DI container in the future easier.
    • 🚚 Routing prefixes are now PascalCased instead of under_scored. This removes some inflection and normalizes the representation of prefixes.

    Contributors to 4.0.0-RC1

    πŸ“š We'd like to welcome othercorey to the core team. They have been contributed a number of documentation improvements and driven multiple improvements around how CakePHP handles microseconds across both CakePHP and Chronos.

    πŸš€ Thank you to all the contributors that helped make this release happen:

    • ADmad
    • Corey Taylor
    • Edgaras JanuΕ‘auskas
    • Jorge GonzΓ‘lez
    • Karma Dice
    • Mark Scherer
    • Mark Story
    • dan
    • itosho
    • ndm2
    • othercorey
    • saeideng

    πŸ“š As always, we would like to thank all the contributors that opened issues, created pull requests or updated the documentation.