CakePHP v4.0.0-beta3 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-09-07 // over 4 years ago
  • 🚀 The CakePHP core team is proud to announce the third beta release of CakePHP 4.0.0. Since the previous beta we've completed a few milestones:

    • 📦 Another pass with psalm and improved type handling throughout the database and ORM packages. Type mappers handle empty values and nulls more consistently.
    • 🔨 We've also done refactoring in the
      📦 Mailer package which has resulted in Cake\Mailer\Email becoming a backwards compatible proxy for other classes.
    • 0️⃣ Uploaded files are now accessed using the PSR7 interface by default. A compatibility flag has also been added to preserve the 3.x behavior.
    • 🔧 Work on the cakephp4 rector configuration has been started.

    🆕 New Features

    ⬆️ The migration guide has a complete list of what's new in 4.0.0. We recommend you give that page a read when upgrading as it notes the various breaking changes present in 4.0.

    How you Can Help

    You can help deliver 4.0 by contributing in one of many ways:

    📚 1. Check the documentation for mistakes, outdated, unclear or broken examples. We've been trying to update everything but may have not caught everything. ✅ 2. Try it out! Give CakePHP 4.0 a test drive in a non-production application. We'd love to hear how converting a small application went and what was harder than it should have been.

    1. File issues for regressions in existing features, or suggest new features. While we're not likely to greatly expand the scope of 4.0, we would like input on what should be a part of 4.1 and 4.2.
    2. Let us know about unclear error messages or silent failures in CakePHP.

    Contributors to 4.0.0-beta3

    🚀 Thank you to all the contributors that have helped since the beta2 release:

    • ADmad
    • Alex
    • Edgaras Janušauskas
    • Ethan Pooley
    • Jorge González
    • Mark Scherer
    • Mark Story
    • Val Bancer
    • ndm2

    🚀 As always, a huge thanks to all the community members that helped make this release happen by reporting issues and sending pull requests.