The Internet, 2003-02-17
To: phpMyAdmin community
The development team is pleased to announce version 2.4.0-rc2 (second release candidate) of phpMyAdmin.
The test cycle is going well, testers of -rc1 found some bugs so -rc2 is better :) and contains a more polished new privileges/db management system.
Improvements:
* PDF pages o new data dictionary o support for deleting a PDF page definition o better browser support * cookie login: login error message * new server/user management interface with sub-pages o more intuitive interface o interface to most MySQL status variables o server traffic & query statistics o support new MySQL 4 privileges o support for user resource limits o privileges may now be edited without reloading the user tables o copy user profiles * Export o export to LaTeX format o better handling of charset conversion o better output order of inserts/creates o export results of any single-table SELECT * option to only copy data (append) to a table * better handling of confirmation requests (bookmarks) and LIMIT * support EXTRACT ... FROM * check/uncheck all for field selection * moving cursor with ctrl/arrows in table creation and row editing * images in PNG format where possible * display UPDATE SQL statement after a row edit * in Select sub-page, drop-down for ENUMs * (experimental) support for compressed connections to the MySQL server * upload of binary file into a field * new documentation layout * (for phpMyAdmin developers) interface to DBG extension for debugging/profiling * show blob size
Fixes:
* output handler warning for PHP >=4.3.0 * usernames with "@" character * links or submit buttons for db search results * warning for bzip problem of PHP 4.2.1 * wrong "Back" links * UNION processing generated undefined variables * handling of "LOCAL" in recent MySQL versions for LOAD DATA INFILE * wrong drop-down for foreign keys in Select sub-page * wrong charset information in XML exports * parsing error for the single quote case * problem with SQL validator interface * wrong parsing of INTERVAL and AUTO_INCREMENT * no longer allow invalid options like UNSIGNED in SET/ENUM * problem entering comments in Relation view * fix for kanji encoding problem * empty field names on add fields page caused problems * the quicklinks on top of each page are now pointing to the default tabs * problem with receiving the database list with MySQL >= 4.0.2-alpha (in CVS) * adjusted font sizes for Opera 7 for Windows and Konqueror (in CVS) * problems with editing the contents of the SQL query boxes with Opera 7 for Windows (in CVS) * query-by-example and only one table * do not display edit link for database-independent queries * fix some of the problems with record counting
Download links, as usual, on http://www.phpmyadmin.net
Marc Delisle, for the team.