3.4 Roadmap

CakePHP 3.3 will add new large features and deprecations to the 3.x release series. It will be backwards compatible with the rest of 3.x

PHP 5.6 Minimum

PHP 5.5 has become end of life, and is no longer supported. Because of that we'll be moving the minimum required PHP version for 3.4.0 to PHP 5.6.0

Expand PSR7 HTTP stack

Building on the introduction of PSR7 messages in 3.3, 3.4 will:

• √ Implement the PSR7 interface methods in Cake\Http\ServerRequest.The existing methods will operate in a mutable context, while the PSR7 methods will treat the request as immutable.
• √ Dispatch Filters will be deprecated.
• √ Methods in Cake\Network\Request that duplicate/overlap functionality with the PSR7 interfaces will be deprecated.
• √ Public properties in Cake\Network\Request will be deprecated.
• √ Implement the PSR7 interface methods in Cake\Http\Response. The existing methods will operate in a mutable context, while the PSR7 methods will treat the response as immutable.
• √ Deprecate existing response methods that overlap with PSR7 methods.
• √ Internal usage of request/response objects will be updated to use new methods.

ORM Improvements

• Refactor traits used in Associations into helper classes. This will help improve readability and comprehension of the ORM Association classes.