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-RC3"

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-RC2, as well as the recent bugfixes from master. This release contains the following changes:

• Improve return types compatiblity with PHPStorm in doc blocks.
• Routes with _host options now use that option when generating URLs.
• Aura.Intl version was raised to 3.0
• Fix missing uploaded files in Request objects.
• Fix strict errors raised when Cake\Database\Schema\Table is used as a typehint.
• Query::update() raises an error when an invalid parameter is passed.
• Mailers are now reset when sending an email raises an exception.
• Improved error messages when associations are missing primary keys.
• Validator::multipleOptions no longer ignores the caseInsensitive option.

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

Contributors to 3.4.0-RC3

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

• ADmad
• Bernat Arlandis
• Cory Thompson
• Henrik Gemal
• José Lorenzo Rodríguez
• Mark Scherer
• Mark Story
• Ross Chater

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.