CakePHP 4.0.9 Released

The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 4.0.9. This is a maintenance release for the 4.0 branch that fixes several community reported issues.

Bugfixes

You can expect the following changes in 4.0.9. See the changelog for every commit.

  • Added support for AUTH PLAIN to SmtpTransport.
  • Improved API docblocks and type annotations.
  • Removed usage of ReflectionParameter::getClass() as it is deprecated in PHP 8.
  • Improved performance of ServerRequest::is() and isAll().
  • Fixed warnings in SecurityComponent, FormProtector and CsrfProtectionMiddleware when handling invalid non-scalar data.
  • Fixed incorrect paths in missing layout error pages.

Contributors to 4.0.9

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

  • ADmad
  • Corey Taylor
  • Edgaras JanuĊĦauskas
  • Mark Scherer
  • Mark Story
  • andrii-pukhalevych

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.