The CakePHP core team is proud to announce the second release candidate of CakePHP 4.4.0. The 4.4.0 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 4.4.0. We recommend you give that page a read when upgrading as it outlines the deprecations present in 4.4.

Changes Since 4.4.0-RC1

• The current request is now automatically added to your application's dependency injection container making it easier to have services that depend on the current request.
• Fixture schema reflection now clears the table registry to prevent errors with applications that initialize tables in initialize() hooks.
• PaginatorHelper::limitControl() now works with multiple pagination.
• Additional features on Debugger were deprecated in favour of using ErrorTrap instead.
• Pagination classes were moved under Cake\Datasources\Paging.
• Renamed DefaultPaginator to NumericPaginator.
• The experimental flag was removed from the dependency injection container. It is now considered a stable API.
• Improved the logging configuration in ErrorTrap and ExceptionTrap.
• Fixed missing use of bindingKey in BelongsToMany associations.
• Improved handling of invalid cookie names.
• Improved content-negotiation with file types that have multiple content-type options.
• The FormContext adapter for FormHelper now supports non-default validation rule sets.
• Added a 'match all' type to View so that fallback view classes can be implemented in the new content-negotiation feature.
• Added deleteAsync() and clearBlocking() methods to the redis cache engine.
• Added new methods to ErrorLoggerInterface with annotations. The new logError() and logException() methods will replace the logMessage() and log() methods respectively in 5.x. Before using the new error handling subsystem you should update any custom error loggers.
• Improved API documentation.
• Removed usage of string interpolation that is deprecated in PHP 8.2

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 4.4.0-RC2

Thank you to all the contributors that have helped with 4.4.0:

• ADmad
• Andrii Pukhalevych
• Corey Taylor
• Danial Khoshkhou
• dependabot[bot]
• Gerasimos
• itosho
• Kevin Pfeifer
• Mark Scherer
• Mark Story
• OJMichael
• othercorey
• Remy Bos

We would also like to thank Guarang Maheta for notifying us of a security issue in bakery.cakephp.org and helping us resolve it.

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