Download phpMyAdmin 2.4.0 RC1

The phpMyAdmin program has released release candidate 1 of version 2.4.0. This program is used to remotely manage a MySQL database. For example, you can create, delete and modify records. Below are the most important changes in this release, for a complete changelog you can: here tereach:

Improvements:

• 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

Fixes:

• 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” left
• 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 Relationship 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 receiving the database list with MySQL >= 4.0.2-alpha (in CVS)