diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 3d87546..e3efe96 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
     "require": {
         "php": ">=7.4",
         "ext-fileinfo": "*",
-        "cakephp/cakephp": "^4.0",
+        "cakephp/cakephp": "^4.4",
         "intervention/image": "^2.4",
         "mirko-pagliai/me-tools": "~2.23.1",
         "mirko-pagliai/php-thumber": "~1.5.3"
diff --git a/src/Middleware/ThumbnailMiddleware.php b/src/Middleware/ThumbnailMiddleware.php
index 8ffe267..3471110 100644
--- a/src/Middleware/ThumbnailMiddleware.php
+++ b/src/Middleware/ThumbnailMiddleware.php
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
  */
 namespace Thumber\Cake\Middleware;
 
-use Cake\Core\Configure;
 use Cake\Http\Response;
 use Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface;
 use Psr\Http\Message\ServerRequestInterface;
@@ -41,16 +40,12 @@ public function process(ServerRequestInterface $request, RequestHandlerInterface
         /** @var \Cake\Http\ServerRequest $request */
         $file = Filesystem::instance()->concatenate(THUMBER_TARGET, base64_decode($request->getParam('basename')));
         if (!is_readable($file)) {
-            throw new ThumbNotFoundException(__d('thumber', 'File `{0}` doesn\'t exist', $file));
+            throw new ThumbNotFoundException(__d('thumber', "File `{0}` doesn't exist", $file));
         }
 
         $response = new Response();
         $response = $response->withModified(filemtime($file) ?: 0);
-        /**
-         * @todo to be removed in a later version
-         */
-        $method = version_compare(Configure::version(), '4.4', '>=') ? 'isNotModified' : 'checkNotModified';
-        if ($response->$method($request)) {
+        if ($response->isNotModified($request)) {
             return $response->withNotModified();
         }
 
diff --git a/tests/bootstrap.php b/tests/bootstrap.php
index 364be7d..6ebc622 100644
--- a/tests/bootstrap.php
+++ b/tests/bootstrap.php
@@ -76,11 +76,4 @@
 define('THUMBER_TARGET', Configure::read('Thumber.target', TMP . 'thumbs'));
 $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] = '/';
 
-/**
- * @todo to be removed in a later version
- */
-if (!class_exists('Cake\Console\TestSuite\StubConsoleOutput')) {
-    class_alias('Cake\TestSuite\Stub\ConsoleOutput', 'Cake\Console\TestSuite\StubConsoleOutput');
-}
-
 echo 'Running tests for "' . getenv('THUMBER_DRIVER') . '" driver ' . PHP_EOL;