The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 5.0.8. This is a maintenance release for the 5.0 branch that fixes several community reported issues.

Bugfixes

You can expect the following changes in 5.0.8. See the changelog for every commit.

• Added connection role to logged queries.
• Improved compatibility with 4.x finders. You can now call finder with named parameters but have the finder implemented with an $options array.
• Eagerloaders now propagate connection roles.
• Error logs from fallback failures in WebExceptionRenderer now include stack traces making debugging easier.
• Update documentation for SelectQuery.
• cake i18n extract now allows --path and --plugin to be provided at the same time.

Contributors to 5.0.8

Thank you to all the contributors that helped make this release happen:

• ADmad
• Alejandro Ibarra
• Corey Taylor
• Jonathan Guillot
• Mark Scherer
• Mark Story
• othercorey
• wowDAS Markus Ramšak

As always, we would like to thank all the contributors that opened issues, created pull requests or updated the documentation.