Software update: phpMyAdmin 2.5.2 rc1

Yesterday the creators of phpMyAdmin informed us that a new release candidate of this MySQL database tool is available. The databases can be managed almost completely via a web interface. The following changes, among others, have been made in version 2.5.2 rc1:

Improvements:

• Preserve edited contents of the query window
• Uploading of SQL when no database selected
• Optional server list drop down in left frame
• “Options” tab merged into “Operations”
• PDF report: paper size selection
• $cfg[‘LimitChars’] now limits all non-numeric fields
• MySQL 4.1 support: table and field charsets
• Better Export functionality, including export for big tables
• Partial support for InnoDB foreign keys: PDF report, Select tab, results display
• Visual editor (scratchboard) for PDF schema
• Export any query in CSV, LaTeX, XML
• Warning for missing length on VARCHAR

Fixes:

• MySQL 4.1 related fixes:
  • User was unable to edit column privileges
  • The table structure page sometimes displayed “Array” in the charset column
  • When altering the field type, the input box for the field length sometimes had a strange default value
  • Erroneous export of timestamp fields
• Now use TRUNCATE with MySQL 4 when emptying multiple tables
• Various HTML pretty printer problems
• Bad display or parser bug report
• docSQL and filename disclosure
• Row count and DISTINCT
• GD2 autodetection
• Cookie: encrypt password (blowfish)
• Wrong field names when exporting query results
• Support for PROCEDURE ANALYSIS
• Security fix against bad JS code

[break]You can read the full changelog here proofread.