Welcome to the release of phpMyAdmin version 5.2.2, the "I should have released this sooner" release. This is primarily a bugfix release but also contains a few security fixes as noted below.

- fix possible security issue in sql-parser which could cause long execution times that could create a DOS attack (thanks to Maximilian Krög https://github.com/MoonE) - fix an XSS vulnerability in the check tables feature (PMASA-2025-1, thanks to bluebird https://github.com/blue-bird1) - fix an XSS vulnerability in the Insert tab (PMASA-2025-2, thanks to frequent contributor Kamil Tekiela https://github.com/kamil-tekiela) - fix possible security issue with library code slim/psr7 (CVE-2023-30536) - fix possible security issue relating to iconv (CVE-2024-2961, PMASA-2025-3) - fix a full path disclosure in the Monitoring tab - issue #18268 Fix UI issue the theme manager is disabled - issue Allow opening server breadcrumb links in new tab with Ctrl/Meta key - issue #19141 Add cookie prefix '-__Secure-' to cookies to help prevent cookie smuggling - issue #18106 Fix renaming database with a view - issue #18120 Fix bug with numerical tables during renaming database - issue #16851 Fix ($cfg['Order']) default column order doesn't have have any effect since phpMyAdmin 4.2.0 - issue #18258 Speed improvements when exporting a database - issue #18769 Improved collations support for MariaDB 10.10

There are many, many more fixes that you can see in the ChangeLog file included with this release or online at https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/blob/RELEASE_5_2_2/ChangeLog

Downloads are available now at https://phpmyadmin.net/downloads/

For the phpMyAdmin team, Isaac