CakePHP 3.5.3 Released

The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 3.5.3. This is a maintenance release for the 3.5 branch that fixes several community reported issues.

Bugfixes & New Features

You can expect the following changes in 3.5.3. See the changelog for every commit.

  • Http\Client now supports protocol relative Location headers.
  • Improved API documentation for the Query Builder.
  • Shell help messages when commands are missing are no longer displayed in red.
  • Dependent deletions in HasMany/HasOne associations now prefixes conditions with the table alias.
  • Directories created by FileCache are more atomic.
  • The default locale is now correctly set when the current locale is changed.
  • CommandRunner now sorts command listings alphabetically.
  • Cookie objects with array values is now sent JSON encoded. This restores backwards compatibility with CookieComponent.
  • Validation::url() now accepts URLs that have fragments containing query data.
  • Router::redirect() now allows the routeClass to be defined.
  • Email address validation now accepts domain names with _ in them.
  • Additional constants for join types have been added.

Contributors to 3.5.3

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

  • ADmad
  • Jeremy Harris
  • José Lorenzo Rodríguez
  • Littley Lv
  • Livia Scapin
  • Mark Scherer
  • Mark Story
  • Patrick Conroy
  • Pierre Martin
  • Rachman Chavik
  • Robert Pustułka
  • Steffen Brand

As always, we would like to thank all the contributors that opened issues, created pull requests or updated the documentation.

Download a packaged release on github.