phpMyAdmin 2.7.0 RC1

De ontwikkelaars van phpMyAdmin hebben de eerste release candidate uitgebracht van versie 2.7.0 waarmee nieuwe functies worden toegevoegd en vele fouten worden verholpen. Dit programma bestaat uit een verzameling van PHP-scripts waarmee een MySQL-database via een webinterface kan worden onderhouden en beheerd. De lijst met aanpassingen ziet er als volgt uit:

Notes:

• Configuration files coming from before phpMyAdmin 2.3.0 (released on 2002-08-11) are no longer supported.
• You can still use your config.inc.php file, but this file can be simplified, containing only the parameters you want to change from their corresponding default value in config.default.php.

Improvements:

• New plugin-based import module
• Some pages now use fieldsets for better look
• Better support for information_schema
• Upgrade script new options
• Better displaying of privileges when there are differences between the various user definition tables
• Structure: count unique value for each field
• Can now limit the list of shown languages
• User-specific upload and save server directories
• Remove Drop tab for mysql database
• New transformation: SQL pretty printing
• Ability to limit maximum size of extended insert
• Support for searching in the foreign key window
• Can now replace an existing bookmark
• New shortcuts for IP rules
• Detect lack of privileges for "Create new table"

Fixes:

• Wrong display of localized MySQL error messages
• Need to select the primary key for MIME-based print view
• Handling of ENTER key when adding fields
• InnoDB: truncating icon and exact row count
• After dropping a db, links were missing
• Strict mode and auto-increment fields insertion
• Collation change for ENUM and SET
• Display problems on special characters in column name
• Links for MySQL documentation
• Escaping of "_"
• Could not edit privileges when different host in db and user
• Changing auto-increment value for InnoDB
• Correct sort order for foreign-key dropdowns
• Group database by rightmost separator
• Performance problem when inserting huge BLOBs
• Calendar popup and time beginning by 0
• ... and many more...