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-RC2"

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-RC1

• Cake\Database\Type\DateTimeType::setTimezone() was added enabling automatic timezone conversion of values before being inserted into the database.
• Improved support for UTF8 filenames in Cake\Filesystem\File.
• Added BodyParserMiddleware to replace content-type parsing features of RequestHandlerComponent with middleware.
• Added Collection::append(), prepend(), appendItem(), prependItem().
• PaginatorHelper resets the page parameter to 1 each time the sort field is changed.
• Event no longer raises errors for properties defined in subclasses.

Contributors to 3.6.0-RC2

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

• AD7six
• ADmad
• Eugene Ritter
• Florian Krämer
• Mark Scherer
• Mark Story
• Sohel Rana
• saeideng
• sohelrana820

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