Upgrading to this Version

You can use composer to upgrade to the RC version of CakePHP 3.5.0:

php composer.phar require "cakephp/cakephp:3.5.0-RC2"

Changes since 3.5.0-RC1

The following changes have been made to 3.5 since 3.5.0-RC1.

• Cake\Collection\Collection::avg() and median() were added.
• Cake\Http\Client now raises a 504 HttpException when a timeout occurs.
• Improved deprecation comments in API doc blocks.
• Cake\Http\Client response bodies can be read with the PSR7 interface once again.
• Cake\Http\Client no longer emits an empty cookie header when there are no cookies.
• Improved SQLServer 2008 pagination shims to work when results are ordered by a computed field.
• Cake\Auth\DefaultPasswordHasher now includes the hashCost option as a factor into whether or not a password needs to be rehashed.
• IntegrationTestCase now correctly generates form-tampering prevention tokens for requests with query string arguments in the URL string.
• Empty translation messages now return the key for messages with no context.
• Cake\Validation\Validator::scalar() was added.
• Cake\TestSuite\TestCase::loadFixtures() now loads all fixtures if no arguments are provided.
• CommandRunner now outputs a command list if no arguments are provided.
• Unknown subcommands, options and arguments now output more helpful error messages with suggestions of what you may have wanted to do.
• Empty MO files are no longer ignored by I18n message collections.
• Missing Controller error messages were improved when routing parameters were not correctly inflected.
• RoutingMiddleware now preserves keys in the params attribute defined earlier in the request.
• Improved compatibility with PHP7.2.
• Cake\Core\InstanceConfigTrait::getConfig() now has a default value parameter.
• Cake\Datasouce\EntityTrait::setDirty() now returns $this as documented.
• The hiddenField option for radio buttons now works as documented.

The migration guide has a complete list of what’s new in 3.5.0, and what has been deprecated. We recommend you give that page a read when upgrading.

Contributors to 3.5.0-RC2

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

• ADmad
• Bernat Arlandis
• Ian den Hartog
• Jeremy Harris
• Joris Vaesen
• José Lorenzo Rodríguez
• Marc Würth
• Mark Scherer
• Mark Story
• Michael Hoffmann
• Mike Fellows
• Yves P
• antograssiot
• chinpei215
• inoas
• saeid

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.