diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3310f1c..22e9258 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 - Removed photoncms binaries (their GitHub organization went private)
 - Removed `mongodb` extension from PHP 5.3 due to build errors
 - Removed `ioncube` extension for PHP 5.2, PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.4 (arm64 only supported from PHP 5.5 onwards)
+- Removed `codeception` from PHP 5.3
 
 
 ## Release 0.134
diff --git a/Dockerfiles/work/Dockerfile-5.3 b/Dockerfiles/work/Dockerfile-5.3
index e8fc5dc..80d4d67 100644
--- a/Dockerfiles/work/Dockerfile-5.3
+++ b/Dockerfiles/work/Dockerfile-5.3
@@ -359,10 +359,6 @@ RUN set -eux \
 ### Install Composer (PHP)
 ###
 RUN set -eux \
-# -------------------- codeception --------------------
-	&& COMPOSER_HOME="/usr/local/src/composer" COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 /usr/local/bin/composer-2 global require  codeception/codeception \
-	&& ln -s /usr/local/src/composer/vendor/codeception/codeception/codecept /usr/local/bin/ \
-	\
 # -------------------- prestissimo --------------------
 	&& COMPOSER_HOME="/usr/local/src/composer" COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 /usr/local/bin/composer-1 global require  hirak/prestissimo \
 	\
@@ -545,7 +541,6 @@ RUN set -eux \
 	&& wp --allow-root --version | grep -E '[0-9][.0-9]+' \
 	\
 # -------------------- Composer --------------------
-	&& codecept --version 2>/dev/null | grep -E '^Codeception(\sversion)?\s[0-9][.0-9]+$' \
 	\
 # -------------------- PIP --------------------
 	&& ansible --version | grep -E '^ansible [0-9][.0-9]+$' \
diff --git a/build/ansible/group_vars/all/work.yml b/build/ansible/group_vars/all/work.yml
index a9234be..743a8ee 100644
--- a/build/ansible/group_vars/all/work.yml
+++ b/build/ansible/group_vars/all/work.yml
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ composer_available:
     link: asgardcms
     version: 2
   codeception:
-    disabled: [5.2, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2]
+    disabled: [5.2, 5.3, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2]
     check: codecept --version 2>/dev/null | grep -E '^Codeception(\sversion)?\s[0-9][.0-9]+$'
     name: codeception/codeception
     link: codecept