April 29, 2019

CakePHP 3.8.0-RC1 Released

The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 3.8.0-RC1. This is the release candidate for 3.8.0, and it contains several new major features. If no major issues are reported a stable release will be packaged in a few weeks.

3.8 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 3.9 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 3.8.0:

php composer.phar require --update-with-dependencies "cakephp/cakephp:3.8.0-RC1"

We would greatly appreciate it if you temporarily upgraded your application, and ran your tests. By opening issues for any regressions in the release candidate, we can help ensure a smoother release of 3.8.0 before the stable release.

What’s new in 3.8.0?

The migration guide has a complete list of what’s new in 3.8.0, and what has been deprecated. We recommend you give that page a read when upgrading.

Changes since 3.8.0-beta1

  • CollectionTrait now uses the newCollection() method to create new instances. This allows implementing classes to ensure that instances of the current class are created when new collections are required.
  • ModelAwareTrait::loadModel() now allows fully qualified namespaces as a parameter.
  • The console table helper now correctly calculates the width of formatted cells.
  • Improved API doc blocks.
  • Commands will now auto-load the model named in their modelClass property.
  • Bundled CA certs were updated to 2019-01-23 release from curl.
  • Add getName() to View. This method was suggested in a deprecation warning but did not exist.
  • Cake\Http\Response::withModified() is now compatible with DateTimeImmutable objects.
  • Improved API documentation.
  • Fixed accidental return type change in Cache::deleteMany().
  • FileEngine no longer emits warnings when cache files are written to during shutdown when the previous write is for the same key.
  • CommandRunner now gracefully handles StopException now.
  • Fixed side-effect in SmtpTransport destructor.
  • Requirements for the cache package were fixed.
  • Don’t emit a charset parameter on the json content type. Chrome has started emitting warnings when this parameter is present as it isn’t compliant with the spec.
  • Add Command::executeCommand() This method enables commands to dispatch each other without needing to use the CommandRunner.
  • Add Response::withCookieCollection().
  • Generate column SQL for CHAR(36) in postgres schema correctly.

Contributors to 3.8.0-RC1

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

  • ADmad
  • Edgaras Janušauskas
  • Jeremy Harris
  • José Lorenzo Rodríguez
  • Kyle Burton
  • Marc Wilhelm
  • Marc Würth
  • Mark Scherer
  • Mark Story
  • Simone Alers
  • TekkCraft
  • saeideng

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

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