Van het programma phpMyAdmin is release candidate 1 uitgebracht van versie 2.4.0. Dit programma wordt gebruikt om een MySQL-database op afstand te beheren. Je kunt bijvoorbeeld records aanmaken, verwijderen en aanpassen. Hieronder staan de belangijkste veranderingen in deze release, voor een compleet changelog kun je hier tereacht:
Improvements:
Fixes:
- PDF pages
- new data dictionary
- support for deleting a PDF page definition
- better browser support
- cookie login: login error message
- new server/user management interface with sub-pages
- more intuitive interface
- support new MySQL 4 privileges
- support for user resource limits
- Export
- export to LaTeX format
- better handling of charset conversion
- better output order of inserts/creates
- export results of any single-table SELECT
- option to only copy data (append) to a table
- better handling of confirmation requests (bookmarks) and LIMIT
- support EXTRACT ... FROM
- check/uncheck all for field selection
- moving cursor with ctrl/arrows in table creation and row editing
- images in PNG format where possible
- display UPDATE SQL statement after a row edit
- in Select sub-page, drop-down for ENUMs
- (experimental) support for compressed connections to the MySQL server
- upload of binary file into a field
- new documentation layout
- (for phpMyAdmin developers) interface to DBG extension for debugging/profiling
- output handler warning for PHP >=4.3.0
- usernames with "@" character
- links or submit buttons for db search results
- warning for bzip problem of PHP 4.2.1
- wrong "Back" links
- UNION processing generated undefined variables
- handling of "LOCAL" in recent MySQL versions for LOAD DATA INFILE
- wrong drop-down for foreign keys in Select sub-page
- wrong charset information in XML exports
- parsing error for the single quote case
- problem with SQL validator interface
- wrong parsing of INTERVAL and AUTO_INCREMENT
- no longer allow invalid options like UNSIGNED in SET/ENUM
- problem entering comments in Relation view
- fix for kanji encoding problem
- empty field names on add fields page caused problems
- the quicklinks on top of each page are now pointing to the default tabs
- problem with recieving the database list with MySQL >= 4.0.2-alpha (in CVS)