CakePHP 5.3.4 released

markstory
2026-04-17T15:10:03Z

The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 5.3.4. This is a maintenance release for the 5.3 branch that fixes several community reported issues.

Bugfixes

You can expect the following changes in 5.3.4. See the changelog for every commit.

Added database connection context to errors logged for QueryException.

Improved phpstan type inference, and table entity generics.

Fixed pagination sort condition merging with alias prefixed fields. Fields are now normalized before resolving sort direction.

Contributors to 5.3.4

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

ADmad

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Kevin Pfeifer

Mark Scherer

Mark Story

Masatoshi Ogiwara