The Internet, 2003-05-26
To: phpMyAdmin community
The development team is pleased to announce version 2.5.1-rc1
(first release candidate) of phpMyAdmin.
MySQL 4.1 note:
phpMyAdmin 2.5.1 is not ready for MySQL 4.1.
Improvements:
* LaTeX export
* Show multi-statement query result
* Support for iconv parameters
* Nested display of tables
* CSV import from upload dir.
* Save export to server
* Check for same db/table when moving
* Detection of missing scheme
* Initial SQL box when no db exists
* Reset button on edit page
* Optional bigger textarea for LONGTEXTs
* Show last inserted auto-increment id
* Multi-tables CSV export
* Can now disable ctrl-arrows moving
Fixes:
* Safari browser frame problems
* "insert as another row" state
* Confirmation when dropping databases
* Light tabs displayed wrong
* No longer saves in the history a query that generates an error
* Error when not using backquotes in export
* Incorrect "Create PHP code"
* Edit link error
* Better PDF schema
* Incorrect GD2 detection
* Avoid long delays when counting millions of rows
* Empty value in ENUM
* Frameset and XHTML
* Execution of query in PHP code view
* Hexification of BLOB when empty
* Tabs highlighing
* Wrong clickable columns and tool-tips with column alias
* Behavior when clicking "Databases"
* Invalid back link on invalid queries
Download links, as usual, on http://www.phpmyadmin.net
Marc Delisle, for the team.
The Internet, 2003-05-11
To: phpMyAdmin community
The development team is pleased to announce version 2.5.0 of phpMyAdmin.
MySQL 4.1 note:
phpMyAdmin 2.5.0 is not ready for MySQL 4.1.
About future versions:
The versions after 2.5.x will have those requirements:
PHP >=4.1.0 and MySQL >=3.23.32.
Improvements:
* distinct Query window
* field contents transformations (inline resized images, links,
external programs, etc)
* display column comments in exports
* automatic update of relations, display fields, comments,
bookmarks, etc after table/column changes
* new display mode with 90 degree rotated headers
* display query time
* js row marker now works in vertical mode
* SQL history: db- or not-db-based
* optional vertical display of the columns in edit mode
* optional lightweight menu tabs
* InnoDB status monitor
* print button in db view
* new Export page with dynamic options
* better security for docSQL importer
* in edit mode, display first the functions that match field type
* parameters for bookmarks queries
* support for changing auto-increment value
* default initial query in browse mode, based on a bookmark with
the same name as the table
* execute bookmarks when browsing bookmarks table
* if available, display Create/Update/Check_time
* in browse mode, highlight the fields used in the WHERE condition
for the query
* automatic layout of the PDF schema
* choose results page in browse mode
* automatic detection of compression for uploaded data
* CHECK TABLE/ANALYZE TABLE for multisubmit actions
* support for SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST
* can now insert multiple fields at cursor position in the query
textarea
* can now choose all segments of a key (relations)
Fixes:
* could not insert some words like "$enum$"
* bad URL (extra /) for generated PDFs
* double password query with http auth
* check privileges only shows root user
* display SQL query used for an index modification
* pdf schema headers footers for long pages
* export results and LIMIT
* inserting values with quotes
* $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] autodetection and CGI mode
* escaping of \n, \r and \t characters
* handling of disabled ini_get()
* go back to fields definition form after an error
* support XOR in the parser
* check for field type when doing charset conversion
* support for HTML entities as db/table/column names
* avoid long delays when browsing big tables (MySQL 4)
* support for host-based privileges
* bad arrow aligning on PDF schema in "same widths" mode
* faster record count
* "undefined index" error in the data dictionary when using MySQL
3.22 or below
* the privileges administration script did not work well with
host-based DB privileges
* having added a new user, the corresponding SQL query was not
displayed
* better "superuser" checking mechanism
* "wrong parameter count" error when connecting with some strangely
compiled php versions
* replaced the %e placeholder in the date format string of some
translations because it did not have any effect on Windows machines.
* unaligned column headers
* MONTH() and YEAR() not displayed as functions
* error on "Skip Explain SQL"
* bad Edit link on tables without primary key but with BLOB
* now we export BLOBs hex quoted
* better check for superuser in MySQL 4
* 2.5.0-rc1 syntax error SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE...
* highlight fields crossing db borders
* FULLTEXT index type not shown in drop-down
* disable CSV export for multiple tables
Download links, as usual, on http://www.phpmyadmin.net
Marc Delisle, for the team.
