CakePHP 2.10.8 Released

The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 2.10.8. This is a maintenance release for the 2.10 branch that fixes several community reported issues.

Bugfixes & New Features

You can expect the following changes in 2.10.8. See the changelog for every commit.

  • Queries using COUNT(DISTINCT field) are now quoted correctly on SQLServer.
  • Mcrypt is now an optional dependency of CakePHP. You can use the Security.useOpenSsl confiugration flag to force encrypt()/decrypt() to use ext/openssl now. This improves compatibility with PHP 7.2
  • Updated PHPUnit version constraint to match messaging in test shell.
  • When query execution returns false and doesn’t raise an exception, the correct _result property is now updated.

Contributors to 2.10.8

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

  • David Yell
  • Mark Sch
  • Mark Story
  • Val Bancer
  • chinpei215

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.