The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 4.3.0. This is the first stable release of 4.3.0. 4.3.0 provides a number improvements to CakePHP.

Upgrading to 4.3.0

You can use composer to upgrade to CakePHP 4.3.0::

php composer.phar require --update-with-dependencies "cakephp/cakephp:4.3.*"

Deprecation Warnings

4.3 introduces a few deprecations. All of these features will continue for the duration of 4.x but will be removed in 5.0. See the migration guide.

What's new in 4.3.0?

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. A few highlights from 4.3.0 are:

• A new fixture system that allows you to use your existing migrations or SQL dump files to define schema was added. Support for cake's migrations and SQL dump files is included.
• TestSuite\HttpMockTrait was added to make mocking HTTP client requests easier.
• LocatorAwareTrait::fetchTable() was added to make the getTableLocator()->get() pattern more ergonomic.
• Controller::middleware() was added. This method lets you define middleware specific to a controller, or the current controller action.
• deprecationWarning() no longer emits duplicate warnings.
• Form objects now support multiple validators and leverage a similar interface to the ORM to use those validators.
• Logged SQL queries now use boolean literals making them easier to paste into a repl.
• The cake console command was extracted into a new cakephp/repl package.
• CspMiddleware can now transparently add nonce- based policies.
• FormHelper will now set additional ARIA attributes automatically.
• The ORM can now marshall date times from the user's timezone into the applications timezone transparently.
• CakePHP's dependency on league/container was bumped to ^4.1.1 and psr/container to ^2.0.

Contributors to 4.3.0

Thank you to all the contributors that helped make 4.3 happen:

• ADmad
• andrii-pukhalevych
• Breton Erwane
• captain-redbeard
• Chris Nizzardini
• Erwane Breton
• fabsn182
• Jan Brabec
• Juan Pablo Ramirez
• Marc Würth
• Mark Scherer
• Mark Story
• ndm2
• othercorey
• Rafael Mardones
• Rob Rikken
• saeideng

As always, a huge thanks to all the community members that helped make this release happen by reporting issues and sending pull requests. 4.3.0 is a large release and would not have been possible without the community support and feedback.