CakePHP 4.0.1 Released

The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 4.0.1. This is a maintenance release for the 4.0 branch that fixes several community reported issues.

Bugfixes

You can expect the following changes in 4.0.1. See the changelog for every commit.

  • The upgrade tool has a smaller install footprint and should have fewer conflicts with application code now.
  • Removed the typehint on Event data payload, as it can be any type.
  • Removed the empty string default value for console options. This fixes Argument::hasOption() always returning true for optional options.
  • CSRF tokens are now set on redirect and basic diactoros response objects.
  • URL generation no longer emits a type warning when route elements have a regex pattern and parameters are integers.
  • Loading joinable associations with contain() now emit errors when foreign keys are not selected. This may cause existing queries to start emitting errors, but those queries were previously silently failing to load associated data as requested.
  • SQLServer fixtures now handle the restrict foreign key action now.
  • The datetime abstract type once again uses the DATETIME column type in SQLServer. Using DATETIME2 created microsecond overflow issues for some users.
  • TestCase::loadRoutes() was added to ease writing unit tests for classes like mailers which often need routes loaded.
  • ConsoleIo::createFile() no longer returns false when the created file has 0 bytes.
  • When generating URLs, routes with controller and action placeholders no longer strip these these keys when they are undefined. Instead routes missing the controller and action keys will fail to match.
  • Optional routing placeholders now work consistently for both braced placeholders and colon placeholders.
  • FunctionsBuilder once again allows mixed types for the $expression parameter as many expressions accept objects that implement __toString().
  • ErrorLogger no longer fails to log messages for errors which no file or line.
  • Improved API doc blocks.

Contributors to 4.0.1

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

  • ADmad
  • Corey Taylor
  • Edgaras JanuĊĦauskas
  • Kaliel
  • Mark Scherer
  • Mark Story
  • Matthias Wirtz

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

Download a packaged release on github.