Upgrading to this Version

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

php composer.phar require "cakephp/cakephp:3.4.0-RC1"

What’s new in 3.4.0?

The migration guide has a complete list of what’s new in 3.4.0, and what has been deprecated. We recommend you give that page a read when upgrading.

Bugfixes and Minor Features

This release fixes a few issues identified in the 3.4.0-beta4, as well as the recent bugfixes from master as documented in the 3.3.12 release notes. In addition to those changes 3.4.0-RC1 contains:

• InstanceConfigTrait::config() has been deprecated. Instead you should used setConfig() and getConfig() methods.
• Routes can now use the _host option to restrict which hosts routes will match on.
• Router::parse(), RouteCollection::parse() and Route::parse() have all been deprecated. Instead you should use the parseRequest() method which has access to the entire request allowing more flexible routing to be created.
• Subcommands will inherit their description from the parent shell if they don’t have a description explicitly set.
• HtmlHelper no longer emits <![CDATA blocks by default. If you use an XHTML document type, you may need to enable <![CDATA again using the safe option.
• Collection::every() now returns true for empty collections. This rectifies a mistake made in 3.2.
• TranslateBehavior::translateField() was added.

If there are no major issues reported, we will release 3.4.0 stable next week.

Contributors to 3.4.0-RC1

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

• ADmad
• José Lorenzo Rodríguez
• Mark Scherer
• Mark Story
• Michael Underwood
• Robert Pustułka
• antograssiot

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.