The CakePHP core team is proud to announce the first release candidate of CakePHP 4.3.0. The 4.3.0 release will introduce several new features and a handful of deprecations.

New Features

The migration guide has a complete list of what's new in 4.3.0. We recommend you give that page a read when upgrading as it outlines the deprecations present in 4.3.

Changes from RC1

Since the release of 4.3.0-RC1 the following changes have been made:

• View::addHelpers() was added and the $merge flag of setHelpers() was deprecated.
• Association::setName() was deprecated.
• A type error in CsrfProtectionMiddleware was fixed. This error could be triggered if cookie data was invalid.
• MailContains only escapes patterns once noce.
• Fixture cleanup performance was improved for SQLServer.
• BaseLog::resolve() was renamed to BaseLog::interpolate().
• TestCase::loadFixtures() is now deprecated.
• The automatic nonce policy features of CspMiddleware now require opt-in configuration to enable. This improves backwards compatibility for applications with existing CSP policies.
• Improved API documentation.
• Improved extensibility of fixture strategies by always calling setup/teardown methods.

How you Can Help

You can help by trying out the RC in your application. Please open issues for any new test failures or regressions the new version creates in your application.

Contributors to 4.3.0-RC2

Thank you to all the contributors that have helped with 4.3.0:

• ADmad
• Corey Taylor
• Juan Pablo Ramirez
• Julian Pollmann
• Kevin Pfeifer
• Mark Scherer
• 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.