CakePHP 5.1.0-RC1 Released

The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the first release candidate for CakePHP 5.1.0. The 5.1 release includes several behavior changes to increase correctness and new features. The highlights of those include:

• Connection now creates unique read and write drivers if the keys read or write are present in the config regardless of values.
• FormHelper no longer generates aria-required attributes on input elements that also have the required attribute set. The aria-required attribute is redundant on these elements and generates HTML validation warnings. If you are using aria-required attribute in styling or scripting you’ll need to update your application.
• Adding associations with duplicate names will now raise exceptions. You can use $table->associations()->has() to conditionally define associations if required.
• View cells now emit events around their actions Cell.beforeAction and Cell.afterAction.
• Validation::enum() and Validator::enum() were added. These validation methods simplify validating backed enum values.
• Validation::enumOnly() and Validation::enumExcept() were added to check for specific cases and further simplify validating backed enum values.
• Client now emits HttpClient.beforeSend and HttpClient.afterSend events when requests are sent. You can use these events to perform logging, caching or collect telemetry.
• Http\Server::terminate() was added. This method triggers the Server.terminate event which can be used to run logic after the response has been sent in fastcgi environments. In other environments the Server.terminate event runs before the response has been sent.