How does the new caching works (3.5+)
You can read the technical details of it here: https://github.com/craftcms/cms/issues/1507#issuecomment-633147835
Craft no longer keeps track of element queries needed for cache invalidation in the database, but they are stored in Craft's data caches Craft::$app-&gt;getCache(), which uses the file system by default and it uses more of a tag-based cache invalidation strategy (similar to https://plugins.craftcms.com/cache-flag if you've ever used that).