Upgrading to 4.1.0

You can use composer to upgrade to CakePHP 4.1.0:

php composer.phar require --update-with-dependencies "cakephp/cakephp:4.1.*"

Deprecation Warnings

4.1 introduces a few deprecations. All of these features will continue for the duration of 4.x but will be removed in 5.0. See the migration guide.

What’s new in 4.1.0?

The migration guide has a complete list of what’s new in 4.1.0. We recommend you give that page a read when upgrading. A few highlights from 4.1.0 are:

• Support for Common Table Expressions (CTE) in the ORM.
• Support for window functions in the ORM.
• Query::orderAsc() and Query::orderDesc() now accept Closure’s as their field enabling you to use build complex order expressions with the provided QueryExpression object.
• debug() and Debugger::printVar() now emit HTML in web contexts, and ANSI styled output in CLI contexts. Output of cyclic structures and repeated objects is much simpler. Cyclic objects are only dumped once and use reference ids to point back to the full value.
• CsrfProtectionMiddleware can now create cookies with the samesite attribute set.
• Log messages can now contain {foo} style placeholders. These placeholders will be replaced by values from the $context parameter if available.

Contributors to 4.1.0

Thank you to all the contributors that helped make 4.1 happen:

• ADmad
• andrii-pukhalevych
• Cauan Cabral
• chinpei215
• Corey Taylor
• Diego Sardina
• diegosardina
• Edgaras Janušauskas
• Frank de Graaf
• Jad Bitar
• John Zwarthoed
• Marc Würth
• Mario Rothauer
• Mark Scherer
• Mark Story
• Matthias Wirtz
• McsKienNP
• mcsknp
• mtak3
• ndm2
• nojimag
• Oliver Nowak
• othercorey
• saeideng
• victoreassi
• Vincent PLANCHER
• Walther Lalk

As always, a huge thanks to all the community members that helped make this release happen by reporting issues and sending pull requests. 4.1.0 is a large release and would not have been possible without the community support and feedback.

Download a packaged release on github.