May 18, 2019

CakePHP 3.8.0-RC2 Released

The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 3.8.0-RC2. 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-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 3.8.0 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-RC1

  • Plural rules for Turkish were corrected.
  • Changing the locale partway during a process no longer results in incorrect values being generated.
  • Improved deprecation warnings.
  • Improved API documentation.
  • CsrfMiddleware now supports disabling CSRF checks on a per-request basis by setting a whitelistCallback.
  • Fixed absolute URL handling in IntegrationTestCase.
  • Controller afterFilter callbacks now has access to the response returned by the controller action.
  • assertExitSuccess() and assertExitError() were added to ConsoleIntegrationTestTrait.

Contributors to 3.8.0-RC2

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

  • ADmad
  • Corey Taylor
  • Mark Scherer
  • Mark Story
  • andrii-pukhalevych
  • 時流

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

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