CakePHP 4.0.0-alpha2 Released
The CakePHP core team is proud to announce the second alpha release of CakePHP 4.0.0. Since the previous alpha we’ve been hard at work finishing off the improvements to typehinting and decreasing the number of skipped warnings from both psalm and phpstan. This may result in some breaking changes in your application or plugins, but in the long term we feel these changes will make CakePHP better.
The application skeleton and bake have been refreshed with a new coat of paint. We’ve opted to not continue using foundation for the basic CSS, and adopted milligram instead. The smaller footprint of milligram makes it easier for you to remove or extend if you’d prefer.
New Features
The migration guide has a complete list of what’s new in 4.0.0. We recommend you give that page a read when upgrading as it notes the various breaking changes present in 4.0.
How you Can Help
You can help deliver 4.0 by contributing in one of many ways:
- Check the documentation for mistakes, outdated, unclear or broken examples. We’ve been trying to update everything but may have not caught everything.
- Try it out! Give CakePHP 4.0 a test drive in a non-production application. We’d love to hear how converting a small application went and what was harder than it should have been.
- File issues for regressions in existing features, or suggest new features. While we’re not likely to greatly expand the scope of 4.0, we would like input on what should be a part of 4.1 and 4.2.
- Let us know about unclear error messages or silent failures in CakePHP.
Contributors to 4.0.0-alpha2
Thank you to all the contributors that have helped since the alpha1 release:
- ADmad
- Corey Taylor
- Edgaras Janušauskas
- Ian den Hartog
- Jeremy Harris
- José Lorenzo Rodríguez
- Marc Wilhelm
- Marc Würth
- Mark Scherer
- Mark Story
- Michael Hoffmann
- Robert Pustułka
- TekkCraft
- andrii-pukhalevych
- mirko-pagliai
- saeideng
- stickler-ci
- 時流
As always, a huge thanks to all the community members that helped make this release happen by reporting issues and sending pull requests.
Download a packaged release on github.