CakePHP 4.2.0

21 December 2020

CakePHP version 4.2.0 is now available (major release).

What's New in CakePHP 4.2.0

• Full support for PHP8.
  
• Experimental support for a dependency injection container was added. The DI container enables you to have application dependencies injected into controller constructors, controller actions and command constructors.
  
• SQLServer driver now uses client-side buffers for results. This improves performance greatly.
  
• Cake\Http\Middleware\SessionCsrfProtectionMiddleware was added. Instead of storing CSRF tokens in a cookie, this middleware stores tokens in the session. This makes CSRF tokens user scoped and time based with the session, offering enhanced security over cookie based CSRF tokens.
  
• A new utility class Cake\Http\FlashMessage was added whose instance is available through ServerRequest::getFlash(). The class similar to the FlashComponent allows you to set flash messages from anywhere you have a request, making it useful in middleware.
  
• Table::subquery() and Query::subquery() were added. These methods lets you create query objects that don't have automatic aliasing.