CakePHP 5.4 is around the corner

CakePHP 5.4.0-RC2 just dropped. The final 5.4.0 will follow shortly, so now is the time to pull the release candidate into your apps and surface any regressions while they are still cheap to fix. This post highlights the changes that are most likely to show up in day-to-day code, with small, runnable examples. The full diff between 5.3 and 5.next is roughly 100 commits — what follows is the cream,…