Add release notes for 5.3.2

Author: markstory

2026/02/24/cakephp_532.rst

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+CakePHP 5.3.2 Released
+======================
+
+The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP
+5.3.2. This is a maintenance release for the 5.3 branch that fixes
+community reported issues, regressions and a security issue with ``PaginatorHelper``.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+You can expect the following changes in 5.3.2. See the `changelog
+<https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/compare/5.3.1...5.3.2>`_ for every commit.
+
+* Improved API documentation.
+* Fixed incorrect cache key usage within ``Inflector``.
+* Fixed ``isset`` bug in debug output formatters.
+* Fixed loose equality comparisons.
+* Made ``EventInterface`` template covariant, improving type inference.
+* Improved performance of DTO projection. Benchmark results show ~70% reduction
+  in DTO mapping overhead.
+* Add ``BIT`` type support to ``MysqlSchemaDialect``. This improves
+  compatibility with existing migrations.
+* Add support for a ``fixed`` option to the ``binary`` type in MySQL. This
+  enabled migrations to preserve fixed/variable length binary column types.
+* Add collation support for uuid columns in MySQL.
+* Fixed reflection of ``ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP`` in MySQL.
+* Command names are now coloured in help output.
+* ``PaginatorHelper::limitControl()`` now preserves passed parameters in the form
+  action.
+* Updated anchor links in documentation to match new book.cakephp.org site.
+* ``BelongsToMany::unlink()`` now returns ``false`` if deleting the association
+  link fails.
+* Improve generic type annotations in several places.
+* ``QueryException`` now contains the connection that an error is from to
+  improve debugging of multi-connection applications.
+* Update to support PHPUnit 13, and continue to adopt Mockery for mocks.
+* Application rules ``setError()`` now handles dotted field paths consistently
+  with other ORM components.
+* Fix sliding window rate limiter boundary conditions because of rounding down.
+* Fix compatibility issues with PHP 8.4 and database reflection queries that
+  trigger errors under PHP 8.4's more strict float-to-int coercion.
+* ``FormHelper`` will no longer mark fields as required, when they have
+  a callable condition in a ``allowEmpty*()``.
+
+
+Contributors to 5.3.2
+----------------------
+
+Thank you to all the contributors that submitted a pull request:
+
+* ADmad
+* Jasper Smet
+* Kevin Pfeifer
+* kuldeep22somaiya
+* Marc Würth
+* Mark Scherer
+* Mark Story
+* othercorey
+
+As always, we would like to also thank all the contributors that opened issues,
+or updated the documentation.
+
+Download a `packaged release on github
+<https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/releases>`_.
+
+.. author:: markstory
+.. categories:: release, news, security
+.. tags:: release, news, security

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+   2026/02/24/cakephp_532
    2026/01/14/cakephp_5212
    2026/01/13/cakephp_531
    2026/01/09/cakephp_530