Add release notes for 5.3.4

Author: markstory

2026/04/17/cakephp_534.rst

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+CakePHP 5.3.4 Released
+======================
+
+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
+<https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/compare/5.3.3...5.3.4>`_ 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
+* Application-drop-up
+* Kevin Pfeifer
+* Mark Scherer
+* Mark Story
+* Masatoshi Ogiwara
+
+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
+.. tags:: release, news

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+   2026/04/17/cakephp_534
    2026/03/18/cakephp_533
    2026/02/24/cakephp_532
    2026/01/14/cakephp_5212