CakePHP 5.2.0 Released

The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the release of CakePHP 5.2.0. The 5.2 release includes several behavior changes to increase correctness and new features. The highlights of those include:

• The cake counter_cache command was added. This command can be used to regenerate counters for models that use CounterCacheBehavior.
• ConsoleIntegrationTestTrait::debugOutput() makes it easier to debug integration tests for console commands.
• Console arguments and options support a separator option making it possible to define parameters like --names=foo,bar
• The nativeuuid type was added. This type enables uuid columns to be used in Mysql connections with MariaDB. In all other drivers, nativeuuid is an alias for uuid.
• A new set of database reflection methods are added. These new methods will be used to simplify migrations in future releases.
• FormHelper::deleteLink() has been added as convenience wrapper for delete links in templates using DELETE method.
• HtmlHelper::importmap() was added. This method allows you to define import maps for your JavaScript files.
• Custom exceptions can have specific error handling logic defined in ErrorController.
• TestFixture::$strictFields was added. Enabling this property will make fixtures raise an error if a fixture’s record list contains fields that do not exist in the schema.