CakePHP 4.6.0 Released
The CakePHP core team is pleased to announce the release of CakePHP 4.6.0. The 4.6 release includes features backported from 5.1 and the upcoming 5.2 releases. 4.6.0 is a smaller release, as the core team’s focus is on 5.x now. 4.x feature releases are now driven by primarily by community involvement. what is new in 4.6 include:
What’s new in 4.6.0?
The migration guide has a complete list of what’s new in 4.6.0. We recommend you give that page a read when upgrading. A summary of what’s new is:
- RedisEngine now supports a tls option for connecting to redis via a TLS connection.
- Number::formatter() and currency() now support a roundingMode
option to control how rounding is handled.
- Optional Command arguments can now have a default value.
Upgrading to 4.6.0
You can use composer to upgrade to CakePHP 4.6.0:
php composer.phar require --update-with-dependencies "cakephp/cakephp:4.6.*"
Contributors to 4.6.0
Thank you to all the contributors that helped make 4.5 happen:
- Adam Halfar
- ADmad
- Chris Nizzardini
- Fernando Herrero
- Frank de Graaf (Phally)
- Kevin Pfeifer
- Mark Scherer
- Mark Story
- othercorey
As always, a huge thanks to all the community members that helped make this release happen by reporting issues and sending pull requests. 4.6.0 would not have been possible without the community contributions.
What’s Next
Feature and bugfix releases for 4.x will continue until September 2025. Security fixes will continue for 4.x until September 2026.
The core team’s focus is on 5.2 and 6.0. The 5.2.0 release is coming up quickly. Early work has started on the 6.x branch. This branch will become 6.0.0. If you’re interested in what has been completed so far, or want to know what is being discussed currently, see the 6.0 milestone in GitHub
Download a packaged release on github.