Add first draft of 4.0.0 announcement.

Author: markstory

2019/04/09/cakephp_400alpha1_released.rst

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+CakePHP 4.0.0-alpha1 Released
+=============================
+
+The CakePHP core team is proud to announce the first alpha release of CakePHP
+4.0.0. We've been working on this release for several months now feel it is
+ready for broader feedback from the community.
+
+There are a few high-level goals for the 4.0.0 release that this alpha release
+delivers upon:
+
+#. Remove all features and functionality deprecated in 3.x and marked for
+ removal in 4.x
+#. Raise the minimum PHP version to 7.1.0. PHP 5 and PHP 7.0 are now end-of-life
+ and we wanted to target a supported version of PHP.
+#. Greatly improve the usage of typehinting internally to allow internals to be
+ simplified due to less need to type check arguments.
+#. Improve error messages across the framework.
+
+
+New Features
+------------
+
+While 4.0 focuses on removing deprecated functionality we've also found the time
+to add some great new features:
+
+* The ORM can now automatically handle timezone conversions between your
+ application server timezone and database timezone if they differ.
+* CakePHP now supports the `PSR-15: HTTP Server Request Handlers
+<https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-15/>_` specification.
+* ``Cake\Http\Client`` now follows `PSR-18: HTTP Client
+<https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-18/>_` specifications.
+* FormHelper now generates HTML5 validation messages and datetime inputs.
+
+The `migration guide
+<https://book.cakephp.org/4.0/en/appendices/4-0-migration-guide.html>`_ has
+a complete list of what's new in 4.0.0. We recommend you give that page a read
+when upgrading as it notes the various breaking changes present in 4.0.
+
+How you Can Help
+----------------
+
+You can help deliver 4.0 by contributing in one of many ways:
+
+#. Check the `documentation <https://book.cakephp.org/4.0/en/` for mistakes
+ and unclear or broken examples. We've been trying to update everything but
+ may not have caught everthing.
+#. Try it out! Give CakePHP 4.0 a test drive in a non-production application.
+ We'd love to hear how converting a small application went and what was harder
+ than it should have been.
+#. File bugs for new features or regressions in existing behavior.
+#. Let us know about unclear error messages or silent failures in CakePHP.
+#. Suggest new features. While we're not likely to greatly expand the scope of
+ 4.0, we would like input on what should be a part of 4.1 and 4.2.
+
+
+Contributors to 4.0.0-alpha1
+----------------------------
+
+Thank you to all the contributors that helped make 3.8 happen:
+
+* TODO
+
+As always, a huge thanks to all the community members that helped make this
+release happen by reporting issues and sending pull requests.
+
+Download a `packaged release on github
+<https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/releases>`_.
+
+
+.. author:: markstory
+.. categories:: news
+.. tags:: release,news

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+2019/04/09/cakephp_400alpha1_released
 2019/03/30/cakephp_380beta1_released
 2019/03/13/cakephp_375_released
 2019/02/28/cakephp_21016_released