CakePHP 5.0.0-beta1 Released
The CakePHP core team is proud to announce the first beta release of CakePHP 5.0.0. This initial release contains most of the new features and breaking changes that 5.0 will contain. This release contains a minimal working application skeleton. It also features a new version of Chronos with several breaking changes. A focus of 5.0 has been to remove deprecated features and improve the adoption of native type-declarations where possible.
Our focus in the near future is to finish updating all of the CakePHP maintained plugins to be compatible with 5.0. We’ll also be putting more work into backporting deprecations into the next 4.x release (4.5.0) so that upgrading can be done incrementally before 5.x is released.
Finally, the scope for 5.x isn’t locked down so if you’d like to see a feature or breaking change made please open an issue.
New Features
The migration guide has a complete list of what’s new in 5.0.0. We recommend you give that page a read when upgrading as it notes the various breaking changes present in 5.0.
How you Can Help
You can help deliver 5.0 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- Check the documentation for mistakes, outdated, unclear or broken examples.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 5.0 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. Even if those features don’t make it into 5.0, we would appreciate community input on what should be part of 5.1 and 5.2
Contributors to 5.0.0-beta1
Thank you to all the contributors that have helped since the alpha1 release:
- ADmad
- Chris Nizzardini
- Kevin Pfeifer
- Mark Scherer
- Mark Story
- ndm2
- othercorey
- saeideng
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.