Software Update: phpMyAdmin 2.3.0

rool alerted us to a new release of phpMyAdmin. This is the expected stable release. Below are the most important updates, a complete changelog is here to find:

Some improvements:

• new page layout for table and db properties
• centralized db for support tables
• can specify a different charset for MySQL and HTML
• utf-8 charset support
• schedule output in PDF
• operators in field selection
• translation feedback page
• print view for SQL results
• EXPLAIN support
• generate PHP code from a query
• full database search
• IP based Allow/Deny
• foreign table display field
• support for some MyISAM table options
• XML export
• query-by-example: automatic joins
• faster table delete under MySQL 4

Some fixes:

• CURDATE did not work in the function list
• javascript error with Mozilla and Opera
• a mysql error when dropping fields
• alter table was not working on a replicate
• bookmark error when the table no longer exists
• bad limit of the number of characters for numeric fields
• problem with headers in Apache 2

[break] The other flavors of phpMyAdmin are here to take down