On Aug 27, 2015, at 3:49 AM, Madhura Jayaratne
<madhura.cj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
3) The datatype JSON does not appear to be added yet. 5.7.8 added this native type with
~20 JSON manipulation functions.
Support for JSON data type can be tracked at
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues/11438
Excellent! This is the only high priority change, since editing tables with a JSON column
currently cause errors.