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4.6 Migration Guide

CakePHP 4.6 is an API compatible upgrade from 4.0. This page outlines the deprecations and features added in 4.6.

Upgrading to 4.6.0

You can can use composer to upgrade to CakePHP 4.6.0:

php composer.phar require --update-with-dependencies "cakephp/cakephp:^4.6"

Note

CakePHP 4.6 requires PHP 7.4 or greater.

New Features

Cache

  • RedisEngine now supports a tls option that enables connecting to redis over a TLS connection. You can use the ssl_ca, ssl_cert and ssl_key options to define the TLS context for redis.

Console

  • Optional Command arguments can now have a default value.

I18n

  • Number::formatter() and currency() now accept a roundingMode option to override how rounding is done.

View

  • NumberHelper::format() now accepts a roundingMode option to override how rounding is done.