[Phpmyadmin-devel] phpMyAdmin 2.5.2-rc1 is released

[Marc Delisle]

The Internet, 2003-07-07

Greetings,

the phpMyAdmin development team is pleased to announce availability of 
phpMyAdmin 2.5.2-rc1 (the first release candidate for 2.5.2).

Improvements:

     * Preserve edited contents of the query window
     * Uploading of SQL when no database selected
     * Optional server list drop-down in left frame
     * "Options" tab merged in "Operations"
     * PDF report: paper size selection
     * $cfg['LimitChars'] now limits all non-numeric fields
     * MySQL 4.1 support: table and field charsets
     * Better Export functionnality, including export for big tables
     * Partial support for InnoDB foreign keys: PDF report, Select tab, 
results display
     * Visual editor (scratchboard) for PDF schema
     * Export any query in CSV, LaTeX, XML
     * Warning for missing length on VARCHAR

   Fixes:

     * MySQL 4.1 related fixes:
           o User was unable to edit column privileges
           o The table structure page sometimes displayed "Array" in the 
charset column
           o When altering the field type, the input box for the field 
length sometimes had a strange default value
           o Erroneous export of timstamp fields
     * Now use TRUNCATE with MySQL 4 when emptying multiple tables
     * Various HTML pretty printer problems
     * Bad display of parser bug report
     * docSQL and filename disclosure
     * Row count and DISTINCT
     * GD2 autodetection
     * Cookie: encrypt password (blowfish)
     * Wrong field named when exporting query results
     * Support for PROCEDURE ANALYSE
     * Security fix against bad JS code


Download/support information on http://www.phpmyadmin.net.

Marc Delisle, for the team.