Updating to the beta

You can use composer to upgrade to the beta version of CakePHP 3.6.0:

php composer.phar require --update-with-dependencies "cakephp/cakephp:3.6.0-beta2"

We would greatly appreciate it if you temporarily upgraded your application, and ran your tests. By opening issues for any regressions in the beta, we can help ensure a smoother release of 3.6.0 before the stable release.

What’s new in 3.6.0?

The migration guide has a complete list of what’s new in 3.6.0, and what has been deprecated. We recommend you give that page a read when upgrading.

Changes Since 3.6.0-beta1

• Cake\Console\CommandFactory was added to allow applications to customize how command classes are built.
• Cake\Database\Type\BatchCastingInterface was added. This interface allows type classes to optimize casting operations by operating on all columns in bulk. This interface can be used in custom types now, and will be used in core types in 4.x.
• RoutingMiddleware can now cache application route collections providing significant improvements to application boot times.
• Cake\ORM\Query::selectAllExcept() was added.
• cake plugin unload and cake plugin load have been updated to modify the Application class.
• Validator::add() now uses the rule name as the method if no method is provided.
• TimestampBehavior no longer emits errors when columns are missing.
• Plugin shells/commands are no longer auto-discovered by the Application. Instead plugin commands are discovered/added by the respective plugin class.
• Console helpers can now live in App\Command\Helper.

Contributors to 3.6.0-beta2

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

• ADmad
• Eugene Ritter
• Gene Ritter
• Jorge González
• José Lorenzo Rodríguez
• Mark Story
• Robert Pustułka

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