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-RC4"

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-RC3, as well as the recent bugfixes from master. This release contains the following changes:

• Email::setPriority() was added. This method lets you set the X-Priority header in email messages.
• EntityTrait had the following methods added: getVirtual(), setVirtual(), getHidden(), setHidden(), setAccess(), isAccessible(), isDirty(), setDirty(), setErrors(), setError(), getErrors(), and getError(). These methods provide separate get/set methods for the combined get/set methods on EntityInterface.
• HasMany::link() now uses a single transaction to link all records.
• FormHelper::input() no longer emits the nestedInput option as an attribute.
• Improved API documentation examples.
• ValueBinder::placeholder() now works as documented when anonymous placeholders are used.
• TestCase::assertHtml() now accepts whitespace before a closing tag.
• The translation helper functions e.g. __() now correctly string cast explict null parameters.
• Caching result sets on PHP 7.1.1 works again. There was an incompatibility due to a change in how SplFixedArray was unserialized.
• CakePHP internals no longer use config() where possible.
• Validation::notBlank() now works with float 0.
• Collection::transpose() with different number of columns and rows now works as expected.
• Session destruction now works properly using the cache engine and memcached.

If there are no major issues reported, we will release 3.4.0 in the following week.

Contributors to 3.4.0-RC4

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

• ADmad
• Ceeram
• Cory Thompson
• Edgaras Janušauskas
• Florian Krämer
• Gareth Ellis
• Joep Roebroek
• Johan Meiring
• José Lorenzo Rodríguez
• Marc Würth
• Mark Scherer
• Mark Story
• Mathew Foscarini
• Rodrigo moyle
• Ross Chater
• Walther Lalk
• antograssiot
• chinpei215
• lilHermit

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.