Version 4.1.2

Release Date: May 16, 2021

4.1.2 release of CodeIgniter4

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BREAKING

Fixed a bug <https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4/issues/4116>_ in current_url() that prevented configurations with an indexPage from including that value in the return value. Any installations using App::$indexPage should expect altered values from current_url() and all its dependencies (including Response Testing, Pager, Form Helper, Pager, and View Parser).

Enhancements

• New HTTP classes, Cookie and CookieStore, for abstracting web cookies.
• New assertRedirectTo() assertion available for HTTP tests.
• New logger handler, ErrorlogHandler, that writes to error_log().
• Entity. Added custom type casting functionality.
• New option in routing. The priority option lower the priority of specific route processing.
• The Autoloader class can now load files which do not contain PHP classes. The list of non-class files will be listed in the $files property of Config\Autoload class.

Changes

• Layouts in views now support nested sections.
• Response::getCookie now returns a Cookie instance instead of an array of cookie attributes.
• Response::getCookies now returns an array of Cookie instances instead of array of array of attributes.
• To eliminate warnings from modern browsers' consoles, empty samesite values will be defaulted to Lax on cookie dispatch.
• Model::errors() and BaseModel::errors() now always returns array; there was no definition change but the docblock has been updated.
• Entity::castAs has changed behavior. Added new parameter $method. Type casting has been moved to separate handlers.
• Entity. Timestamp casting now throws an exception when an invalid value is passed
• Entity::castAsJson uses external cast handler JsonCast::get.
• Entity::mutateDate uses external cast handler DatetimeCast::get.
• In order for Config\** classes to get their respective properties' values from the .env, it is now necessary to namespace the property with the name of the class. Previously, the property names are enough but now disallowed because it can get system environment variables, like PATH.
• The array helper _array_search_dot is now marked for @internal use. As this is used by dot_array_search, users should not use _array_search_dot directly in their code.
• CacheInterface::getMetaData() returns null for misses, or an array with at least the "expires" key set to the absolute epoch expiration, or null for "never expires". The File, Memcached, and Wincache Handlers still return false which will become null in a future release.

Deprecations

• Deprecated CodeIgniter\View\View::$currentSection property.
• Language strings and exceptions on invalid cookie samesite are deprecated for the CookieException's own exception message.
• Deprecated CodeIgniter\Entity in favor of CodeIgniter\Entity\Entity
• Deprecated cookie-related properties of Response in order to use the Cookie class.
• Deprecated cookie-related properties of Security in order to use the Cookie class.
• Deprecated cookie-related properties of Session in order to use the Cookie class.
• Deprecated Security::isExpired() to use the Cookie's internal expires status.
• Deprecated CIDatabaseTestCase to use the DatabaseTestTrait instead.
• Deprecated FeatureTestCase to use the FeatureTestTrait instead.
• Deprecated ControllerTester to use the ControllerTestTrait instead.
• Consolidated and deprecated ControllerResponse and FeatureResponse in favor of TestResponse.
• Deprecated Time::instance(), use Time::createFromInstance() instead (now accepts DateTimeInterface).
• Deprecated IncomingRequest::removeRelativeDirectory(), use URI::removeDotSegments() instead
• Deprecated \API\ResponseTrait::failValidationError() to use \API\ResponseTrait::failValidationErrors() instead

Bugs Fixed

• BaseConnection::query() now returns false for failed queries (unless DBDebug==true, in which case an exception will be thrown) and returns boolean values for write-type queries as specified in the docs.

See the repo's CHANGELOG_4.1.md <https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4/blob/develop/changelogs/CHANGELOG_4.1.md>_ for a complete list of bugs fixed.