Software update: phpMyAdmin 2.5.6-rc2

The folks behind phpMyAdmin have released the second release candidate of version 2.5.6. This mountain of PHP scripts allows you to maintain a MySQL database remotely or not. As usual, a new release is available to download in three different flavors. The first package is intended for the Windows platform and is available from here be brought down. For Linux systems, both a tarball if bzip2 available. It changelog from 2.5.6-rc2 looks like this:

Improvements:

• Display database collation
• List collations of all tables
• Pretty printing of charsets
• Can now change the default database charset
• Export now includes charset and collation info
• Foreign key browse window: better sorting for key/value pairs; window is now resizable
• Support for _charset syntax
• Display the maximum size of uploads
• Show MySQL version in SQL printview headers

Fixes:

• Security fix: possible attack against export.php
• Column collations were not displayed in MySQL 5.0
• Character set “binary” was not correctly detected
• Foreign key browse window: paging did not work
• SHOW FIELDS problem
• Changing a table’s charset changed the charset of all fields (MYSQL >= 4.1.1)
• Problem when SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS is in the query
• Internal relations dropped when a field is dropped with the multi-submit mechanism
• Wrong sort link for column aliases
• Wrong row highlighting after “With selected: delete”
• MySQL version check was sometimes done before connecting
• Wrong treatment for NULL default value of DATETIME field
• Parser: undefined variable
• Problem executing stored bookmarks
• Privileges: password not copied
• Undefined function message (pma_sqp_iserror)
• Undefined function message (mysql_get_client_info)
• Missing Arabic charset