November 16, 2018

CakePHP 3.7.0-RC2 Released

The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 3.7.0-RC2. This is the release candidate for 3.7.0, and it contains several new major features. If no major issues are reported a stable release will be packaged in a few weeks.

3.7 is the last planned minor release of CakePHP 3.x before 4.0 is released. Once 4.0 is released, 2.x will only receive security fixes, and 3.x will only continue to receive bug & security fix releases. If there is significant community interest there may be a 3.8 release, but there are no plans at this point in time.

Updating to the RC

You can use composer to upgrade to the beta version of CakePHP 3.7.0:

php composer.phar require --update-with-dependencies "cakephp/cakephp:3.7.0-RC2"

We would greatly appreciate it if you temporarily upgraded your application, and ran your tests. By opening issues for any regressions in the release candidate, we can help ensure a smoother release of 3.7.0 before the stable release.

What’s new in 3.7.0?

The migration guide has a complete list of what’s new in 3.7.0, and what has been deprecated. We recommend you give that page a read when upgrading.

Changes since 3.7.0-RC1

  • Plugin::unload() is now deprecated. This mirrors the deprecation for Plugin::load().
  • New TestCase methods (removePlugin(), removePlugins() and clearPlugins()) have been added to remove plugins at runtime.
  • LocaleSelectorMiddleware will now automatically select a fallback locale like es if a request for es-ES is made and your application does not define an es-ES locale.
  • MoParser now supports messages without contexts matching the behavior of PoParser.
  • Backwards incompatible changes in ConsoleIntegrationTrait were reverted.
  • Cake\ORM\Query::disableHydration() was added.
  • Cake\View\ViewBuilder::disableAutoLayout() was added.
  • Cake\View\View::disableAutoLayout() was added.
  • Cake\Database\Query::disableBufferedResults() was added.
  • Cake\Database\Driver::disableAutoQuoting() was added.
  • Cake\Database\Query::disableAutoFields() was added.
  • Cake\Datasource\Connection::disableQueryLogging() was added.
  • Cake\Datasource\Connection::disableSavePoints() was added.
  • Pagination no longer includes the direction key in generated URLs when multiple sort columns are used.
  • Cake\TestSuite\TestCase::getMockForModel() now accepts null for its $methods parameter.

Contributors to 3.7.0-RC2

  • ADmad
  • David Yell
  • Edgaras Janušauskas
  • Ian den Hartog
  • Jeremy Harris
  • Marc Würth
  • Mark Scherer
  • Mark Story
  • Michael Hoffmann
  • Val Bancer
  • gregs
  • mirko-pagliai
  • saeideng

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

Posted by markstory
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