Welcome to the second beta release for phpMyAdmin 4.1.0.
This release contains many improvements and bug fixes. With this release
the minimum supported PHP version is now 5.3. The final 4.1.0 release
will require a minimum MySQL version of 5.5.
A few highlights include:
* Allow specifying a port when connecting to the controlhost
* User interface improvements to server privileges, view creation, the
Operations tab, Relation View, and when creating new users.
* Added support for AES_ENCRYPT on BLOB fields
* Added support for relations with ndbcluser
* Added optional ReCAPTCHA support during login
* Added support for fractional seconds in time, datetime, and timestamp
fields
* Added find and replace by column
* Added the Error Reporting Component, an optional feature allowing
users to report certain errors directly to the phpMyAdmin bug team.
* Added configurable menus (so an administrator can hide certain
features)
The SQP and MySQLManual* configuration directives have been removed.
For complete information, please view changelog.php or ChangeLog file,
included with this release.
Details will appear on http://phpmyadmin.net. In a hurry? you can visit
https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/files to download.
The phpMyAdmin team
phpMyAdmin becomes the first member project to join Conservancy in 2013.
Today, Software Freedom Conservancy welcomes the phpMyAdmin project as
its newest member. phpMyAdmin joins 28 sister member projects who all
call Conservancy their non-profit corporate home.
Conservancy is a non-profit public charity that provides a range of
financial and administrative services to member projects that
develop Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS). Conservancy's
assistance allows software developers and documenters to focus on those
activities exclusively.
By joining Conservancy, phpMyAdmin obtains the benefits of a formal
non-profit organizational structure while keeping the project focused
on software development and documentation. Some benefits of joining
Conservancy include the ability to collect donations, hold assets on
behalf of the project, and some protection of the lead developers of
the project from personal liability when engaging in the activities of
the project. Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc. is a tax-exempt
501(c)(3) organization, incorporated in New York State.
Other FLOSS projects that seek to join Conservancy are encouraged to
apply.
phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin is a free and open source web interface for the MySQL,
MariaDB and Drizzle database systems. Frequently used operations
(managing databases, tables, columns, relations, indexes, users,
permissions, etc) can be performed via the user interface, while you
still have the ability to directly execute any SQL statement.
Since its first release in September 1998, phpMyAdmin has been adopted
by thousands of web host providers, and has translations underway for
more than seventy languages.
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Michal Čihař, for the team