Download phpMyAdmin 2.5.5-rc2

The devvers behind phpMyAdmin have a new version released† It is release candidate 2 of the 2.5.5 branch and is available in different flavors to download† phpMyAdmin can be run on almost any web server that supports PHP and MySQL. The program aims to maintain MySQL databases via a web-based interface. The following release notes are available:

Improvements:

• General code optimization by removing old PHP3 compatibility
• Make default functions configurable
• Visual scratchboard: show column names
• Show overhead in table list, allow to check all overhead tables at once
• Export: can suppress dates information
• MySQL error messages improved formatting
• Printview: display linked values ​​and other relational features
• Export: allow delayed INSERTs, and support for UPDATE and REPLACE statements
• Show result of last SHOW query when using multiple queries
• Can now specify the default query
• Catch table renaming with dot in the new name
• Multi-row edit
• Date MIME transformation: show also real data before transformation
• New language: Basque
• Print view: show number of rows

Fixes:

• Relation view: non-unique keys were not displayed as possible choices for foreign keys
• Try to upload history in table only if configured so
• Opera and Export dynamic options
• Try to show sorting by indexes only if makes sense
• Some undefined variables
• SQL history and js errors
• Export and CSV for Excel can now choose the Excel edition
• Multi-row delete in vertical mode
• Execute stored bookmarks had a problem
• Transformations: now allow more timestamps
• Export: added XML header
• Could not enter the string “NULL”
• Export: fixed LaTeX output, and unique fields are now bold
• Export: foreign keys problem
• FULLTEXT is possible not just on TEXT but also MEDIUMTEXT, etc
• Now we can kill more processes
• Display problem with repeated headers
• In Server view, left frame did not keep server choice, language, etc
• Sort on some aliased columns did not work
• Left panel and non-escaping of single quotes
• Backquotes were present in the db name choice for Create db
• Support for FORCE INDEX
• Problem when DROPping the only remaining db
• Fix moving foreign key definition on Windows

[break]The following zipped files have been made available for download:
phpMyAdmin 2.5.5-rc2 Zip
phpMyAdmin 2.5.5-rc2 Bzip2
phpMyAdmin 2.5.5-rc2 Tarball