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Upgrading from 2.x to 3.x

composer require cakephp/authentication:^3.0 -W

or adjust your composer.json file manually and perform composer update -W

Breaking changes

  • Type declarations were added to all function parameter and returns where possible. These are intended to match the docblock annotations, but include fixes for incorrect annotations.

  • Type declarations were added to all class properties where possible. These also include some fixes for incorrect annotations.

  • \Authentication\Identifier\IdentifierInterface::CREDENTIAL_USERNAME was moved to \Authentication\Identifier\AbstractIdentifier::CREDENTIAL_USERNAME.

  • \Authentication\Identifier\IdentifierInterface::CREDENTIAL_PASSWORD was moved to \Authentication\Identifier\AbstractIdentifier::CREDENTIAL_PASSWORD.

  • \Authentication\Identifier\IdentifierInterface::CREDENTIAL_TOKEN was moved to \Authentication\Identifier\TokenIdentifier::CREDENTIAL_TOKEN.

  • \Authentication\Identifier\IdentifierInterface::CREDENTIAL_JWT_SUBJECT was moved to \Authentication\Identifier\JwtSubjectIdentifier::CREDENTIAL_JWT_SUBJECT.

  • AuthenticationMiddleware cannot be configured anymore. Configuration needs to happen on the AuthenticationService object.