CakePHP 5.3.3 released

markstory
2026-03-19T02:58:53Z

The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 5.3.3. This is a maintenance release for the 5.3 branch that fixes several community reported issues.

Bugfixes

You can expect the following changes in 5.3.3. See the changelog for every commit.

Improved type hints for database query results, and disableHydration().

Query::setMatching() without a builder no longer clears the builder function. Instead an identity function is used to retain query composition.

Improved typehinting on FactoryLocator.

Updated dependencies and CI tooling.

Enabled strict mode for more in_array() checks.

Contributors to 5.3.3

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

ADmad

Jasper Smet

Kevin Pfeifer

Mark Scherer

Mark Story

Nicos Panayides