CakePHP 2.9.3 Released

The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 2.9.3. This is a maintenance release for the 2.9 branch that fixes several community reported issues.

Bugfixes

You can expect the following changes in 2.9.3. See the changelog for every commit.

  • The constructor of AclNode now lets you pass in an alias when instances are created via ClassRegistry::init().
  • A regression introduced in 2.9.1 where bootstrap files would not be correctly processed preventing bake from creating new applications.
  • PagesController no longer allows .. in paths allowing other view templates to be loaded potentially causing application errors.

New Features

The 2.9.3 introduces a few new features:

  • Shell commands now accept the --webroot CLI parameters allowing you to customize the path to your application’s webroot directory if necessary.
  • Cache::engine() was backported from 3.x
  • DboSource now supports hook methods for customizing how the method cache works.

Contributors to 2.9.3

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

  • Marc Würth
  • Mark Sch
  • Mark Story
  • Mischa ter Smitten
  • Val Bancer
  • chinpei215

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

Download a packaged release on github.