The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 4.3.8. This is a maintenance release for the 4.3 branch that fixes several community reported issues.

Bugfixes

You can expect the following changes in 4.3.8. See the changelog for every commit.

• Improved examples in documentation blocks.
• Fixed missing usage of bindingKey in associations generated by BelongsToMany.
• Fixed a TypeError coming from CsrfProtectionMiddleware when cookie data contained invalid base64 encoded data.
• Improved handling of numeric keys in cookie parsing.

Contributors to 4.3.8

Thank you to all the contributors that helped make this release happen:

• ADmad
• Andrii Pukhalevych
• Corey Taylor
• Danial Khoshkhou
• Gerasimos
• Kevin Pfeifer
• Mark Scherer
• Mark Story

As always, we would like to thank all the contributors that opened issues, created pull requests or updated the documentation.