The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 5.2.5. This is a maintenance release for the 5.2 branch that fixes several community reported issues and regressions.

Bugfixes

You can expect the following changes in 5.2.5. See thechangelog for every commit.

• Fixedroutes generate not working with names containing:.
• Improved API documentation.
• FixedLoggedQuery from applying undefined attributes and emitting warnings.
• IfSession.timeout is not defined, PHP definedsession.gc_maxlifetime will be used as the lifetime of the session. This better aligns timeouts with simpler settings.
• Improved data provider usage in test cases.
• Fixed session assertions whenenableRetaionFlashMessages() has been used.
• Events that are triggered with a null subject do not emit deprecation warnings.
• Fixed chainedfind() calls with overlapping parameters getting incorrect values.
• ImprovetoDateTime() to not return null when passedDate.
• Fixed invalid stream constructor whenRunInSeparateProcess is used.
• Update plural rules for French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese based on CLDR v47. These languages have support for additional plural forms.

Contributors to 5.2.5

Thank you to all the contributors that submitted a pull request:

• ADmad
• Corey Taylor
• Erik Nagelkerke
• Ishan Vyas
• Jeremy Harris
• Kevin Pfeifer
• k-pon-jp
• Mark Scherer
• Mark Story
• Nicos Panayides
• othercorey

As always, we would like to also thank all the contributors that opened issues, or updated the documentation.