[Phpmyadmin-devel] phpMyAdmin 2.6.2-rc1 is released
Marc Delisle
DelislMa at CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca
Sun Apr 3 16:36:16 CEST 2005
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http://www.phpmyadmin.net
phpMyAdmin 2.6.2-rc1 - April 3rd, 2005
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A set of PHP-scripts to administrate MySQL over the Web.
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Announcement
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The phpMyAdmin Project is proud to announce the immediate
availability of the first release candidate of phpMyAdmin 2.6.2.
Version 2.6.2 contains improvements for better MySQL 4.1 and 5.0
support, and a fix for a new security vulnerability.
phpMyAdmin is a web administration tool for MySQL databases, intended to
handle a whole database server as well as a single database. Over the years,
it has become the most popular GUI for MySQL and is downloaded about 6,000
times a day, according to SourceForge.net.
The highlights of this release in detail:
Highlights
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Improvements:
* MySQL 4.1.x native column comments
* MySQL 5.0: Basic detection mechanism for views:
o Views are no longer displayed as tables in use
o Ability to drop views
* MySQL 5.0: Interface fixes and hardcoded virtual relations for information_schema
* MySQL 4.1: Better automatic detection for available storage engines
* New storage engines overview page
o Plugin-like infrastructure for storage engine status monitors
o Overview of startup variables and current values
o MySQL 5.0 / InnoDB: Buffer pool activity monitor
* MySQL 4.1.2+ TIMESTAMP options
* Export: Native Microsoft Word 2000 and Excel 2000 formats
* PDF schema visual editor: column names now optional
* MySQL 5.0.3 new Japanese charsets support (cp932, eucjpms)
* Parser: added missing date and time MySQL functions
* Documentation: explain all Export options handling
* Cookie paths: added / to end of path
* Show database comments at more places
* Better use of print styles in themes
* Bookmarks: sort by label, remove the number before each label
* Better protection against possible collation conflicts and out-of-sync errors in PMADB queries
* Relation view: removed pmadb-style comments handling (now available just on the Structure page)
* FAQ about using HTTP authentication under IIS
* New editions for some language files (especially ISO-8859-15)
* (rc1) English messages improvements
Fixes:
* Detection of SELECT query to display on multiple submits
* PDF schema: missing header
* A failed connection was not properly detected
* Problem with Japanese language under MySQL 4.1.x
* Export
o Various errors under mysqli extension
o SQL format under Safari browser
o Do not offer export modes not available in current MySQL version
* Changing the type of a FLOAT unsigned column
* Adding field with collation
* Calendar popup and TIMESTAMP field under MySQL 4.1.x
* PHP 4.1.x: wrong parameter count (mcrypt.lib.php)
* Problem when SHOW DATABASES is disabled
* Copy table: commands out of sync
* User management
o Host not changing with editing user
o Escaping character removed by error
* MySQL 5.0.x: "No database selected" error
* Print view: displaying of indexes
* Cookie auth: error when blowfish_secret is empty
* MySQL 4.1.2: "Reload MySQL" link not seen
* MySQL 5 server binlog compatibility
* PDF pages generation: wrong documentation
* Inserted row id was not always correctly reported
* (rc1) Do not offer unavailable collations
* (rc1) XSS vulnerability on "convcharset"
* (rc1) Do not allow to drop information_schema
* (rc1) Undefined offset (on the left panel)
* (rc1) Problem copying InnoDB table with foreign-key constraints to a table in the same database
Detailed list of changes since version 2.2.0 is available under
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ChangeLog.txt
Availability
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This software is available under the GNU General Public License V2.0.
You can get the newest version at http://www.phpmyadmin.net/
Available file formats are: .zip, .tar.gz and .tar.bz2.
If you install phpMyAdmin on your system, it"s recommended to
subscribe to the news mailing list by adding your address under
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpmyadmin-news
This way, you will be informed of new updates and security fixes.
It is a read only list, and traffic is not greater than a few
mail every year.
Support and Documentation
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The documentation is included in the software package as text and
HTML file, but can also be downloaded from:
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation/
The software is provided as is without any express or implied
warranty, but there is a bugs tracker page under:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ [click on "Bugs"]
In addition, there are also a number of discussion lists
related to phpMyAdmin. A list of mailing lists with archives
is available at:
http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=23067 or
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ [click on "Lists"]
Finally, an users support forum is also available under:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=72909
Known bugs
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- phpMyAdmin SQL parser chokes on fieldnames with certain non-ASCII characters
(bugs #593598, #936161).
To be informed about new releases fixing these problems, please
subscribe to the news mailing list under
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpmyadmin-news
or regularly check the sourceforge bugs tracker.
Donations
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The project accepts donations to help improve the product. There is
a "Donations" link on http://www.phpmyadmin.net.
Description
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phpMyAdmin is intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. It
can manage a whole MySQL server as well as a single database.
Currently it can:
- create, copy, rename and drop databases
- create, copy, drop, rename and alter tables
- do table maintenance
- delete, edit and add fields
- execute any SQL-statement, even batch-queries
- manage keys on fields
- load text files into tables
- create and read dumps of tables
- export data to CSV, XML and Latex formats
- administer multiple servers
- manage MySQL users and privileges
- check referential integrity
- using Query-by-example (QBE), create complex queries automatically
connecting required tables
- create PDF graphics of your Database layout
- search globally in a database or a subset of it
- communicate in 47 different languages
Authors & Copyright
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Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Tobias Ratschiller <tobias_at_ratschiller..com>
Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Marc Delisle <DelislMa_at_CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca>
Olivier Müller <om_at_omnis.ch>
Robin Johnson <robbat2_at_users.sourceforge.net>
Alexander M. Turek <me_at_derrabus.de>
Michal Cihar <michal_at_cihar.com>
Garvin Hicking <me_at_supergarv.de>
Marcel Tschopp <ne0x_at_users.sourceforge..net>
+ many other people
(check the CREDITS section of our documentation)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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Marc Delisle/ 2005-04-03
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