cakephp/cakephp 5.0.0-RC2

CakePHP 5.0.0-RC2 released

on GitHub

The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the second release candidate for CakePHP 5.0.0. Since the RC1 release the core team has continued to improve deprecations, add a few small features, and improved naming. Some of the highlights of this work include:

• Simplified Paginator and made hasNextPage more consistent.
• Skip SMTP authentication if no credentials are provided.
• Improved error page frame rendering.
• Added the Command.beforeExecute and Command.afterExecute events to Command.
• Allowed applications to override default console logging easier.
• Internal event handlers now use setResult instead of return. We recommend this usage in the future.
• Added cake.database.queries and cake.mailer logging scopes. The queriesLog and email scopes are deprecated now.

What's new in 5.0

The migration guide has a complete list of what's new in 5.0.0. We recommend you give that page a read when upgrading as it notes the various breaking changes present in 5.0.

How you Can Help

You can help deliver 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 Check the documentation for mistakes, outdated, unclear or broken examples.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 5.0 a test drive in a non-production application. We'd love to hear how converting a small application went and what was harder than it should have been.
3. File issues for regressions in existing features, or suggest new features. Even if those features don't make it into 5.0, we would appreciate community input on what should be part of 5.1 and 5.2

Contributors to 5.0.0-RC2

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

• ADmad
• Corey Taylor
• DeSerFix-bot
• Jozef Grencik
• Kevin Pfeifer
• 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.