[Phpmyadmin-news] phpMyAdmin 2.3.3 is released

[Marc Delisle]

The Internet, 2002-12-02

To: phpMyAdmin community

The development team is pleased to announce version 2.3.3 of phpMyAdmin.

Some improvements:

     * upload of compressed dumps
     * inform the user who does not have privileges to create a db
     * warning if using PHP 4.2.3
     * new internal analyzer for db, table, column and alias
     * data dictionary report
     * warning about blank root password in all auth modes

Some fixes:

     * database search and any words
     * anonymous user was created as %
     * wrong back link after an error
     * automatic uppercase causes trouble for some languages
     * syntax error for REVOKE
     * parsing and INTERVAL
     * sorting on a COUNT() column
     * no need to check an explicit dot in open_basedir path
     * navigation controls not shown with GROUP BY queries
     * numeric foreign keys used as aliases
     * HTML entities in db or table names
     * better dump support for older MySQL
     * ignore NULL checkbox if data present
     * SHOW INDEXES syntax variant
     * USE in query box to change db
     * Edit or Delete a row when only an alias is displayed
     * Special regexp characters in table name caused bugs
     * Reserved words like TABLE in table name caused bugs
     * Check referential integrity and NULL foreign key, or self-linked 
table
     * inconsistent use of radio buttons on db search page
     * export and UTF-8
     * auto-increment key does not have to be the primary key
     * ANSI comments
     * cookie auth and PHP3
     * javascript problem for row color pointer
     * date column wrap in browse mode
     * relations and non-primary key
     * sorting a column ORDER BY SUM(var)
     * cannot delete a row with a TEXT field containing newlines
     * let use a blank password in cookie auth mode
     * ORDERing by a function applied to a field
     * syntax coloring and UPDATE...SET
     * parser and multi-byte characters
     * revealing of MySQL connect information if server is down
     * bad link to doc of ALTER TABLE
     * TEXT field containing HTML is sometimes displayed wrong
     * FULLTEXT indexes were not detected correctly with MySQL >= 
4.0.2-alpha

Download links, as usual, on http://www.phpmyadmin.net

Marc Delisle, for the team.