CakePHP 5.1.0-RC2 Released

The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the second release candidate for CakePHP 5.1.0. Since the RC1 release the core team has added new features, and includes bugfixes from the 5.0 releases. Some of the highlights of this work include:

• CakePHP will no longer check that zend.assertions is enabled in non-debug environments. The related ini setting cannot be controlled at the directory level, and cannot be changed in some shared/cloud hosting environments.
• Fixed BehaviorRegistry::removeBehavior() not clearing method maps.
• Fixed deprecations with PHPUnit 11 and made CakePHP base classes compatible with PHPUnit 11.
• Replaced internal usage of md5 with xxh128. This impacts hashes used for group prefixes in Cache.
• Fixed IntegrationTestTrait::enableCsrfToken() causing GET requests that follow a POST request to fail.
• Added toFloat(), toInt(), toString(), toBool(), toDateTime(), toDate() and toBool() to make it more ergonomic to convert request data into type-safe values.
• The new casting functions are used by ControllerFactory to cast parameters for controller actions.
• Components can now leverage the dependency injection container in their constructors.
• Console\Argument::hasArgument() no longer raises errors when arguments are undefined.
• ResultSetDecorator is no longer used internally by the ORM. Instead ResultSet is used directly.
• Added support for geospatial types of GEOMETRY, POLYGON, POINT, and LINESTRING for database drivers that support them and emulated support for SQLite.
• The request returned by Router::getRequest() will now be updated after each middleware is processed, improving request mutations in error pages.
• The default valueSeparator for find(list) is now a space instead of ;. This makes results more useful for interfaces.