Add release notes for 5.2.6

Author: markstory

2025/08/01/cakephp_526.rst

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+CakePHP 5.2.6
+==============
+
+The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP
+5.2.6. This is a maintenance release for the 5.2 branch that fixes several
+community reported issues and regressions.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+You can expect the following changes in 5.2.6. See the `changelog
+<https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/compare/5.2.5...5.2.6>`_ for every commit.
+
+* Pagination now uses a cloned query to get a count instead of using the loaded
+  records.
+* Improved API docs.
+* Fixed generation and reflection of unsigned integer column types in sqlite.
+* Fixed deprecation errors in ``FormProtectionComponent``.
+* Fixed translate behavior with iI8n locale that has options defined.
+* Improved exception messages in ``SelectQuery``.
+* Fixed error when xdebug is enabled and uninitialized properties are accessed.
+* You can now join and contain the same table in an ``loadInto()`` operation.
+* Datetime validation correctly handles booleans now.
+
+Contributors to 5.2.6
+----------------------
+
+* ADmad
+* Corey Taylor
+* Eriknag
+* Felix Kempf
+* freefri
+* Juan Pablo Ramirez
+* Kevin Pfeifer
+* Mark Scherer
+* Mark Story
+* wowDAS Markus Ramšak
+
+Thank you to all the contributors that submitted a pull request:
+
+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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+   2025/08/01/cakephp_526
    2025/07/26/cakephp_462
    2025/06/20/cakephp_525
    2025/05/16/cakephp_524