CakePHP 3.5.0 Released

The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 3.5.0. This is the first stable release of 3.5.0. 3.5.0 provides a number improvements both large and small to CakePHP. It also deprecates several features that will be removed in 4.0.0.

In following with our previously announced roadmap work will now begin on 3.6. This work will take place in the 3.next branch, while the master branch now contains 3.5.x.

Upgrading to 3.5.0

You can use composer to upgrade to CakePHP 3.5.0:

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

Deprecations

3.5.0 deprecates a number of methods as we continue to transition away from combined get/set methods in favour of separate get/set methods. The migration guide has the full list of deprecated methods and their replacements. Deprecated features will continue to exist and behave as they always have until 4.0.0

What’s new in 3.5.0?

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

  • Scoped Middleware - Middleware can now be conditionally applied to routes in specific URL scopes. This allows you to build specific stacks of middleware for different parts of your application without having to write URL checking code in your middleware.
  • New Middleware - New middleware was added to apply CSRF tokens, and encrypted cookies.
  • Improved Console Environment - A new console dispatcher has been added, integrating the Application class into the CLI environment. Integration testing helpers have been added making testing console commands simpler.
  • Helpful Console Errors - Missing options & subcommands now make suggestions of valid options instead of just erroring out.
  • Cache Engine Fallbacks - Cache engines can now be configured with a fallback key that defines a cache configuration to fall back to if the engine is misconfigured (or unavailable).
  • Cookie Objects - New Cookie & CookieCollection classes have been added. These classes allow you to work with cookies in an object-orientated way.
  • dotenv Support added to Application Skeleton - The application skeleton now features a ‘dotenv’ integration making it easier to use environment variables to configure your application.

As always, a huge thanks to all the community members that helped make this release happen by reporting issues and sending pull requests. 3.5.0 is a large release and would not have been possible without the community support and feedback.

Download a packaged release on github.