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-RC1"

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-beta3

• PHPStan level 3 checks have been enabled.
• Collection::count() and countKeys() have been added.
• Updated the bundled root certificate file.
• Additional test cases for Text.
• ConsoleOptionParser::enableSubCommandSort() was added.
• All tests are passing on Windows once again. Appveyor was accidentally disabled for a month or so.
• MemcachedEngine now handles Memcached::getMulti() failing.
• TimestampBehavior now handles creating values for non-datetime columns, as it did in previous versions. This behavior is also deprecated.
• Form subclasses now correctly call validator().
• RequestHandlerComponent no longer overwrites view preferences when it shouldn’t.
• RequestHandlerComponen no longer parses XML with recursive inline entities.
• PO message context can now be on multiple lines.
• Integration tests that use security tokens and query strings behave correctly once again.

Contributors to 3.6.0-RC1

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

• ADmad
• Iandenh
• Jeremy Harris
• José Lorenzo Rodríguez
• Mark Scherer
• Mark Story
• Matthew Brown
• Ronald Chaplin
• Wouter van Os
• saeideng
• sohelrana820

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