The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 5.2.7. 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 5.2.7. See the changelog for every commit.

• Fixed regression where added rules were enabled for delete operations by
  default.
• Updated Validation::uuid() to accept V7 UUIDs.
• Fixed array value handling in getEnv().
• Fixed flaky tests for Arabic-Indic numeral output.
• Fixed hidden validation messages in nested entities from validation and domain rule failures. Now validation errors are available for nested entities in the _rule key.
• XML from Xml::fromArray() is now validated before being returned. This prevents invalid XML from being generated by invalid input. Now an XmlException will be thrown.
• Updated for PHP 8.5 deprecations.
• Cleaned up plugin configuration after test runs.
• Fixed column comment quoting in the MySQL schema dialect.
• Implemented missing support for QueryExpression as schema column defaults. This was a porting gap when moving code from migrations to cakephp/database.

Contributors to 5.2.7

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

• ADmad
• Arshid
• Mark Scherer
• Mark Story

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