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@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ recommend using the [app skeleton](https://github.com/cakephp/app) as
 a starting point. For existing applications you can run the following:
 
 ``` bash
-$ composer require cakephp/cakephp:"~3.3"
+$ composer require cakephp/cakephp:"~3.4"
 ```
 
 ## Running Tests