[Phpmyadmin-news] phpMyAdmin 2.5.3-rc2 is released

[Marc Delisle]

The Internet, 2003-08-17

Greetings,

the phpMyAdmin development team is pleased to announce availability of 
the second release candidate for phpMyAdmin 2.5.3.

MySQL 4.1 Note:

phpMyAdmin's MySQL 4.1 support is still experimental

Improvements:

     * MySQL 4.1: new page about Character sets and collations
     * better support for MySQL charsets
     * LIKE in Select sub-page for non-text fields
     * optional icons for actions
     * better PHP code generation
     * possibility to let phpMyAdmin continue execution of a multi-query 
statement even though single queries may fail
     * possibility to display the result of each query of a multi-query 
statement
     * display MySQL error code and link to relevant documentation
     * Select page: use SELECT * when possible
     * Can now bookmark a series of SQL queries
     * Relational dropdown field now obey $cfg['LimitChars']
     * Relational dropdown now displayed also by value to ease selection 
by typing
     * FAQ 1.30 about Turck MMCache
     * Do not show the "Cookies required" as an error
     * New window to browse/choose foreign values when there are more 
than 200

Fixes:

     * Removed lowercase transformation of SQL
     * "Missing..." messages were wrongly displayed
     * armascii8 appears twice in the charset list
     * InnoDB and multi-columns foreign key
     * Confirmation for TRUNCATE statements
     * InnoDB and cross-db foreign keys
     * Obey fmtType when set to 'none'
     * SELECT DISTINCT was broken (MySQL 3)
     * User management: MySQL 3 problem with Resource limits
     * Could not use a plus sign in ENUM or SET
     * Wrong check for DROP DATABASE
     * Wrong confirm dialog for "Create PHP Code"
     * Avoid a MySQL replication problem
     * ENUM field with one value could not be set to NULL
     * Export: column header were missing (Excel format)
     * Export: problem with LaTeX and relations
     * ENUM fields with brackets were truncated
     * Wrong "Showing rows..." message when user has put a LIMIT
     * IIS and HTTP auth did not work when register_globals=Off
     * Export: better handling of special characters
     * Export: CSV: some lines could be trimmed


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

Marc Delisle, for the team.