v4.7.0.rst

Version 4.7.0

Release Date: Unreleased

4.7.0 release of CodeIgniter4

• Highlights
• BREAKING
  • Behavior Changes
  • Interface Changes
  • Method Signature Changes
• Enhancements
  • Libraries
  • Commands
  • Testing
  • Database
    • Query Builder
    • Forge
    • Others
  • Model
  • Helpers and Functions
  • Others
• Message Changes
• Changes
• Deprecations
• Bugs Fixed

Highlights

• TBD

BREAKING

Behavior Changes

Interface Changes

• Images: The ImageHandlerInterface now includes a new method: clearMetadata(). If you've implemented your own handler from scratch, you will need to provide an implementation for this method to ensure compatibility.

Method Signature Changes

Enhancements

Libraries

• CURLRequest: Added shareConnection config item to change default share connection.
• CURLRequest: Added dns_cache_timeout option to change default DNS cache timeout.
• CURLRequest: Added fresh_connect options to enable/disabled request fresh connection.
• Email: Added support for choosing the SMTP authorization method. You can change it via Config\Email::$SMTPAuthMethod option.
• Image: The ImageMagickHandler has been rewritten to rely solely on the PHP imagick extension.
• Image: Added ImageMagickHandler::clearMetadata() method to remove image metadata for privacy protection.
• Time: added methods Time::addCalendarMonths() and Time::subCalendarMonths()

Commands

Testing

Database

Query Builder

Forge

Others

Model

Helpers and Functions

Others

Message Changes

• Added Email.invalidSMTPAuthMethod and Email.failureSMTPAuthMethod
• Deprecated Email.failedSMTPLogin and Image.libPathInvalid

Changes

• Cookie: The CookieInterface::EXPIRES_FORMAT has been changed to D, d M Y H:i:s \G\M\T to follow the recommended format in RFC 7231.
• Format: The Format::$jsonDepthOptions options to change default behavior JSON Encode.

Deprecations

• Image:

  • The config property Config\Image::libraryPath has been deprecated. No longer used.
  • The exception method CodeIgniter\Images\Exceptions\ImageException::forInvalidImageLibraryPath has been deprecated. No longer used.

Bugs Fixed

• Cookie: The CookieInterface::SAMESITE_STRICT, CookieInterface::SAMESITE_LAX, and CookieInterface::SAMESITE_NONE constants are now written in ucfirst style to be consistent with usage in the rest of the framework.

See the repo's CHANGELOG.md for a complete list of bugs fixed.