cakephp/cakephp 4.5.0-RC1

CakePHP 4.5.0-RC1 released

on GitHub

The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the first release candidate for CakePHP 4.5.0. The 4.5 release includes many new deprecations and is a recommended upgrade point if you plan on upgrading to 5.0 in the future. There are also new features in 4.5.0. The highlights of those include:

• Cache::write() will throw an exception on error now.
• Console commands can now use -- to indicate that all following parameters are positional arguments.
• The current container instance is now registered as a service. This makes the container available as a dependency for application and plugin factories.
• ConnectionManager now supports read and write connection roles. Roles can augment the connection configuration using nested configuration.
• Improved development exception stack trace rendering.
• HttpsEnforcerMiddleware now supports the trustedProxies option which lets you define upstream proxies that your application should trust to proxy HTTPs traffic.
• Plugins can now define multiple translation domains.

What's new in 4.5.0

The migration guide has a complete list of what's new in 4.5.0. We recommend you give that page a read when upgrading as it notes the deprecations present in 4.5.0.

How you Can Help

You can help deliver 4.5.0 by contributing in one of many ways:

1. Check the documentation for mistakes, outdated, unclear or broken examples. We've been trying to update the documentation as we go, but there are likely examples or sections we've missed.
2. Try it out! Give CakePHP 4.5.0 a test drive. Let us know how upgrading went and if there were any rough spots.
3. File issues for regressions in existing features, or suggest new features. Even if those features don't make it into 4.5.0, we're early in the process of planning 4.6 and 5.1 and value community feedback.

Contributors to 5.0.0-RC2

Thank you to all the contributors that have helped since with the RC1 release:

• ADmad
• Alejandro Ibarra
• Brian French
• Chris Nizzardini
• Jaro Varga
• Jose Daian
• Jozef Grencik
• Kevin Pfeifer
• Marcelo Rocha
• Mark Scherer
• Mark Story
• Matthias Wirtz
• othercorey
• Roland Waldner

As always, a huge thanks to all the community members that helped make this release happen by reporting issues and sending pull requests.