CakePHP 2.8.4 Released

The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 2.8.4. This is a maintenance release for the 2.8 branch that fixes several community reported issues.

Bugfixes You can expect the following changes in 2.8.4. See the changelog for every commit. FormHelper::postLink() now correctly generates SecurityComponent field hashes when used within another form. (@MarkusBauer)

now correctly generates SecurityComponent field hashes when used within another form. (@MarkusBauer) Validation::phone() now accepts ‘N11’ exchanges for North American phone numbers. (@markstory)

now accepts ‘N11’ exchanges for North American phone numbers. (@markstory) The Equifax Secure Certificate Authority root certificate was re-added. This fixes several issues with the certificate bundle update in 2.8.3. (@markstory)

BlowfishPasswordHasher now generates a random salt when comparing to a hashed password of ‘’. This prevents incorrect password matching on empty values. (@markstory)

FixtureTask honours the --records and --schema options when creating a fixture in a non-interactive fashion. (@markstory)

and options when creating a fixture in a non-interactive fashion. (@markstory) Several missing European locales were added (@bancer)

HTTP Range header parsing is more resilient (@markstory)

A regression introduced in 2.8.0 in FormHelper when handling the deprecated action option has been fixed. (@markstory)