CakePHP 3.5.0-RC2 Released

The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 3.5.0-RC2. This is a release candidate for 3.5.0. 3.5.0 provides a number improvements both large and small to CakePHP. It also deprecates several features that will be removed in 4.0.0.

Upgrading to this Version You can use composer to upgrade to the RC version of CakePHP 3.5.0: php composer . phar require "cakephp/cakephp:3.5.0-RC2"

Changes since 3.5.0-RC1 The following changes have been made to 3.5 since 3.5.0-RC1. Cake\Collection\Collection::avg() and median() were added.

and were added. Cake\Http\Client now raises a 504 HttpException when a timeout occurs.

now raises a 504 HttpException when a timeout occurs. Improved deprecation comments in API doc blocks.

Cake\Http\Client response bodies can be read with the PSR7 interface once again.

response bodies can be read with the PSR7 interface once again. Cake\Http\Client no longer emits an empty cookie header when there are no cookies.

no longer emits an empty cookie header when there are no cookies. Improved SQLServer 2008 pagination shims to work when results are ordered by a computed field.

Cake\Auth\DefaultPasswordHasher now includes the hashCost option as a factor into whether or not a password needs to be rehashed.

now includes the hashCost option as a factor into whether or not a password needs to be rehashed. IntegrationTestCase now correctly generates form-tampering prevention tokens for requests with query string arguments in the URL string.

now correctly generates form-tampering prevention tokens for requests with query string arguments in the URL string. Empty translation messages now return the key for messages with no context.

Cake\Validation\Validator::scalar() was added.

was added. Cake\TestSuite\TestCase::loadFixtures() now loads all fixtures if no arguments are provided.

now loads all fixtures if no arguments are provided. CommandRunner now outputs a command list if no arguments are provided.

Unknown subcommands, options and arguments now output more helpful error messages with suggestions of what you may have wanted to do.

Empty MO files are no longer ignored by I18n message collections.

Missing Controller error messages were improved when routing parameters were not correctly inflected.

RoutingMiddleware now preserves keys in the params attribute defined earlier in the request.

attribute defined earlier in the request. Improved compatibility with PHP7.2.

Cake\Core\InstanceConfigTrait::getConfig() now has a default value parameter.

now has a default value parameter. Cake\Datasouce\EntityTrait::setDirty() now returns $this as documented.

now returns as documented. The hiddenField option for radio buttons now works as documented. The migration guide has a complete list of what’s new in 3.5.0, and what has been deprecated. We recommend you give that page a read when upgrading.