This document provides a summary of new features in CakePHP 3.0 including:
- Frequent releases with bugfixes every 2-4 weeks and support for PHP 5.4 and above.
- Adoption of PSR standards and improvements to internationalization, routing, resource routing, collections, ORM, and entities.
- Key changes include standalone components, improved localization support, routing scopes and prefixes, resource routing, immutable and pipeline-friendly collections, active record and datamapper ORM patterns, and value objects.
- Many features can also be used independently of CakePHP.