[phpMyAdmin News] phpMyAdmin 4.9.8, 5.1.2, and 5.2.0-rc1 are released

[Isaac Bennetch]

The phpMyAdmin project announces several new releases:

* 4.9.8, which fixes some security flaws
* 5.1.2, which fixes some security flaws and contains many bug fixes
including better PHP 8.0 and 8.1 compatibility
* 5.2.0-rc1, a testing version introducing many new features

## Security fixes (affected versions as noted)

A flaw was identified in how phpMyAdmin processes two factor
authentication; a user could potentially manipulate their account to
bypass two factor authentication in subsequent authentication sessions
(PMASA-2022-1) (affects both 4.9 and 5.1).

A series of weaknesses was identified allowing a malicious user to
submit malicious information to present an XSS or HTML injection attack
in the graphical setup page (PMASA-2022-2) (affects 5.1 only; not 4.9).

In some scenarios, potentially sensitive information such as a the
database name can be part of the URL. This can now be optionally
encrypted. There are two new configuration directives relating to this
improvement: `$cfg['URLQueryEncryption']` and
`$cfg['URLQueryEncryptionSecretKey']`. This encryption can be enabled by
setting URLQueryEncryption to true in your `config.inc.php`. Thanks to
Rich Grimes <https://twitter.com/saltycoder> for suggesting this
improvement (affects both 4.9 and 5.1).

During a failed log on attempt, the error message reveals the target
database server's hostname or IP address. This can reveal some
information about the network infrastructure to an attacker. This
information can now be suppressed through the
`$cfg['Servers'][$i]['hide_connection_errors']` directive. Thanks to Dr.
Shuzhe Yang, Manager Security Governance at GLS IT Services for
suggesting this improvement (affects both 4.9 and 5.1).

## Bug fixes (5.1.2 and 5.2.0-rc1)

* Revert a changed to $cfg['CharTextareaRows'] allow values less than 7
* Fix encoding of enum and set values on edit value
* Fixed possible "Undefined index: clause_is_unique" error
* Fixed some situations where a user is logged out when working with
more than one server
* Fixed a problem with assigning privileges to a user using the
multiselect list when the database name has an underscore
* Enable cookie parameter "SameSite" when the PHP version is 7.3 or newer
* Correctly handle the removal of "innodb_file_format" in MariaDB and MySQL

## New features (5.2.0-rc1)

* Removed support for Microsoft Internet Explorer
* Requires PHP 7.2 or newer
* Requires the openssl PHP extension
* Improved handling of system CA bundle and cacert.pem, falling back to
Mozilla CA if needed
* Replace "master/slave" terms with "primary/replica"
* Add "NOT LIKE %...%" operator to Table search
* Add support for the Mroonga engine
* Add support for account locking
* Several fixes and improvements to the SQL parser library

There are, of course, many more fixes and new features that you can see
in the ChangeLog file included with this release or online at
<https://demo.phpmyadmin.net/master-config/index.php?route=/changelog>

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

Isaac and the phpMyAdmin team

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