Updating to 3.4.0-beta4

You can use composer to upgrade to the beta version of CakePHP 3.4.0:

php composer.phar require "cakephp/cakephp:3.4.0-beta4"

We would greatly appreciate it if you temporarily upgraded your application, and ran your tests. By opening issues for any regressions in the beta, we can help ensure a smoother release of 3.4.0 before the stable release.

Bug Fixes

• Reading request bodies no longer returns null.
• Querystring parameters set in the url option of a request are now propagated to the requesy query data.
• Table output in CLI tools now correctly handles empty strings when calculating widths.

Additions & Deprecations

• Add dd() as quick alternative for debug(); die();.
• CLI commands can now accept an argument multiple times by setting the multiple option on an argument.
• Routing scopes can now define the routeClass and extensions options.
• A number of methods in the Email class have been deprecated in favour of separate get/set methods.

A full list of the changes in 3.4.0 can be found in the 3.4.0 migration guide

Contributors to 3.4.0-beta4

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

• ADmad
• DaVinciEngineer
• Koen Brouwer
• Mark Scherer
• Mark Story
• Mathew Foscarini
• Ondrej Mirtes
• Yves P
• antograssiot
• yutmr

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