Changes since 2.3.0-beta

• Added ConfigReaderInterface::dump() and made all readers’ dump() method support ‘Plugin.keyname’ format for keys
• Made View trigger notice by default if elements are missing and added elementExists() method
• Added Helper::$settings to match other objects like components and behaviors
• You no longer have to specify ‘maxLimit’ when setting ‘limit’ greater than default ‘maxLimit’ when configuring pagination settings.
• Added type hinting to Model::validator()
• prev() and next() methods of PaginatorHelper now possible to place the ‘tag’ option to ‘false’ to disable the wrapping element.
• Calling Form->input() with ‘errorMessage’=>false should trigger field error, but not render error message (HTML element).
• New options in HtmlHelper::getCrumbList() to make it compatible with Twitter Bootstrap, Zurb foundation or other CSS frameworks.
• Added CakeTestCase::getMockForModel convenience method.
• Implemented SSL peer verification in HttpSocket.
• Added context() to CakeSocket.
• Renamed HttpResponse to HttpSocketResponse. HttpResponse will continue to exist for backwards compatibility.
• Using bytecode sequence for unicode ellipsis in String::trim().
• When using XmlView, you can configure the top level element name by setting the _rootNode view variable.
• Added warning to home.ctp when DebugKit is not installed and added a list of official plugins to home.ctp
• Added View::startIfEmpty()
• Added foreignKey to whitelist in saveAssociated()
• RedisEngine: authenticate connection if ‘password’ is set

Changes in 2.2.4

2.2.4 is a bugfix/maintenance release for the 2.2.x release branch. These are some of the changes included:

• Update TLD validation to accept gTLD variations
• Fixed sorting empty data with Hash & Set.
• Fixed multi-model validators with deep & atomic validation error nesting
• Fixed exceptions being thrown in beforeFilter breaking error pages.
• Using HttpSocket to get proper exceptions when trying to load XML from remote servers to fix warnings from file_get_contents() in Xml::build()
• Send charset=UTF-8 if Content-Type is JSON.
• Added query logging to DboSource::insertMulti().
• Fixed contain rule parsig in authentication adapters
• Fixed required validation rule
• Removed Inflector::slug() replacement from Ä to A
• Fixed issue with Model::saveAssociated() and TranslateBehavior
• Only setting $request->data with PUT/DELETE when it can be decoded.
• Improved “required” field detection.
• Made Model::find(‘first’) always return an array.
• Fixed issue where the incorrect meridian would be selected in FormHelper::dateTime()
• Fixed issue where createSchema() would omit primary keys sometimes.
• Fixed saveAssociated() with validate=first, atomic=false
• Showing the last 200 queries instead of the first 200 in SQL log.
• Fixed 0’th index file not being copied to $_FILES.
• Fixed autoLinkUrls so it re-capture query strings.
• Allow saving new records with pre specified primary key value with treebehavior.
• Fix find(‘count’) with ‘group’ when result has only one group.

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