CakePHP 3.9.0-RC1 Released

The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 3.9.0-RC1. This is the release candidate for 3.9.0, and it contains several new major features. If no major issues are reported a stable release will be packaged in a few weeks.

3.9 contains several new features that have been backported from 4.0 and 4.1. The intent of these new features and backports is to ease upgrading applications from 3.x to 4.x.

Updating to the RC

You can use composer to upgrade to the beta version of CakePHP 3.9.0:

php composer.phar require --update-with-dependencies "cakephp/cakephp:3.9.0-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 3.9.0 before the stable release.

What’s new in 3.9.0?

The migration guide has a complete list of what’s new in 3.9.0, and what has been deprecated. We recommend you give that page a read when upgrading.

Contributors to 3.9.0-RC1

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

  • ADmad
  • Corey Taylor
  • Edgaras Janušauskas
  • Erwane Breton
  • Florian Krämer
  • Jorge González
  • Mark Scherer
  • Mark Story
  • Robert Pustułka
  • Tibor
  • Val Bancer
  • Victor Eduardo de Assis
  • Zuluru
  • gregs
  • mcsknp
  • ndm2
  • nojimage

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