CakePHP 2.8.6 Released

The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 2.8.6. This is a maintenance release for the 2.8 branch that fixes several community reported issues.

Bugfixes

You can expect the following changes in 2.8.6. See the changelog for every commit.

  • CakeEmail::deliver() now lets subclasses use the static method. (@kolorafa)
  • Welcome page now correctly displays PDO related errors. (@chinpei215)
  • Query timing metrics are reset on BEGIN/COMMIT/ROLLBACK statements, giving more accurate query timing data. (@Mensler)
  • AuthComponent no longer stores redirect URLs for JSON requests. (@gestudio)
  • Empty strings are removed from the secured field list in FormHelper. (@nojimage)
  • Icelandic locale (is-is) support was added. (@alex2690)
  • Stateless authentication adapters now store their user data on all requests, not just those that require authorization. (@biesbjerg)
  • Plugin associations defined with the short name as a key now behave consistently with other declaration modes. (@psaintjust)
  • Shutdown events are now triggered by the default error handling controllers. (@biesbjerg)
  • CakeResponse::header() now treats null values now works like setting ‘’ as a value. (@markstory)
  • Model::delete() no longer performs joins when simple conditions are used. (@mvdriel)
  • CakeSchema can now change column lengths to the database vendor’s defaults. (@andrej-griniuk)
  • A memory leak in the SmtpTransport has been fixed. (@Linnk)

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.