December 08, 2018

CakePHP 3.7.0 Released

The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 3.7.0. This is the first stable release of 3.7.0. 3.7.0 provides a number improvements both large and small to CakePHP.

This release is the last planned feature release for 3.x. Going forward the core team will be focusing on supporting 3.7 and completing 4.0.0.

Upgrading to 3.7.0

You can use composer to upgrade to CakePHP 3.7.0:

php composer.phar require --update-with-dependencies "cakephp/cakephp:3.7.*"

Deprecation Warnings

3.7.0 adds additional runtime deprecations for features that were missed during 3.6. The new deprecation warnings conclude deprecations in 3.x. By resolving deprecation warnings in your application now you will have a simpler upgrade experience when 4.0.0 is ready.

Because fixing all the deprecation warnings in a large application can be a non-trivial task you will likely want to disable deprecation warnings allowing you to make incremental progress in fixing them. To disable deprecation warnings set Error.errorLevel to E_ALL ^ E_USER_DEPRECATED in config/app.php.

The migration guide has the full list of deprecated methods and their replacements. Deprecated features will continue to exist and behave as they always have until 4.0.0

What’s new in 3.7.0?

The migration guide has a complete list of what’s new in 3.7.0. We recommend you give that page a read when upgrading. A few highlights from 3.7.0 are:

  • The ArrayEngine which can help improve test suite performance and reliability.
  • Cake\Http\Client will now use curl if it is available providing better performance and proxy features.
  • ErrorHandlerMiddleware will now include previous exceptions in logging.
  • New transport factory classes to help simplify Email.
  • Cake\Validation\Validator now provides type-safe allow-empty methods.
  • FormHelper can now set HTML5 custom validation messages.
  • New assertions on IntegrationTestCase to make working with flash messages simpler.

Contributors to 3.7.0

Thank you to all the contributors that helped make 3.7 happen:

  • ADmad
  • AlPri78
  • Benjamin Pick
  • Brian Porter
  • Ceeram
  • Daniel Opitz
  • Daniel Platt
  • David Yell
  • Dmitrii Romanov
  • Dustin Haggard
  • Edgaras
  • Edgaras Janušauskas
  • Erwane Breton
  • Eugene Ritter
  • Fernando Herrero
  • Gergely Tamás
  • Henrik Gemal
  • Ian den Hartog
  • Iandenh
  • Jeremy Harris
  • Jorge González
  • Jose Diaz-Gonzalez
  • Joshua Lückers
  • José Lorenzo Rodríguez
  • Kazuki_Kamizuru
  • Marc Würth
  • Mark Scherer
  • Mark Story
  • Mikkel Bonde
  • Mohamed Elbahja
  • Philipp Nikolajev
  • chinpei215
  • inoas
  • lganee
  • mirko-pagliai
  • ndm2
  • saeideng

As always, a huge thanks to all the community members that helped make this release happen by reporting issues and sending pull requests. 3.7.0 is a large release and would not have been possible without the community support and feedback.

Download a packaged release on github.

Posted by markstory
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