Bugfixes

You can expect the following changes in 2.8.4. See the changelog for every commit.

• FormHelper::postLink() now correctly generates SecurityComponent field hashes when used within another form. (@MarkusBauer)
• Validation::phone() now accepts ‘N11’ exchanges for North American phone numbers. (@markstory)
• The Equifax Secure Certificate Authority root certificate was re-added. This fixes several issues with the certificate bundle update in 2.8.3. (@markstory)
• BlowfishPasswordHasher now generates a random salt when comparing to a hashed password of ‘’. This prevents incorrect password matching on empty values. (@markstory)
• FixtureTask honours the --records and --schema options when creating a fixture in a non-interactive fashion. (@markstory)
• Several missing European locales were added (@bancer)
• HTTP Range header parsing is more resilient (@markstory)
• A regression introduced in 2.8.0 in FormHelper when handling the deprecated action option has been fixed. (@markstory)

Minor Features

• Improved API docs (@jrbasso, @ravage84)
• Added example configuration for using letsencrypt with CakePHP. (@ravage84)
• You can now set the Response class used in ControllerTestCase (@felixmaier1989)

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

Download a packaged release on github.