Download phpMyAdmin 2.6.1-rc1

The developers behind phpMyAdmin have just released the first Release Candidate of version 2.6.1. phpMyAdmin is a collection of PHP scripts that allow remote or remote maintenance and management of a MySQL database. In this release we find, among other things, some security fixes and the mcrypt library is used, which means a speed improvement when auth_type=”cookie” is used. The full changelog looks like this:

Upgrade note:

• Using external transformations now requires PHP > 4.3.0

Improvements:

• Big speed improvement (if using auth_type=”cookie”) by using the mcrypt library (if available on your system)
• Improved becoming when adding fields
• (mysqli) support for compressed protocol and CLIENT_LOCAL_FILES
• Clickable active server in left panel
• Improved ANSI mode in various scripts
• Hints added (light bulb)
• Database copying
• New Database Operations tab
• Optional simple blocking or root login
• Binary log display
• Index creating on multiple fields
• Improved display of messages below tabs
• Handle MySQL “duplicate entry” error
• User list: top index for user initials
• Support for OLD_PASSWORD() function
• Under MySQL 4.1.2+, we no longer need the control user to have rights over the “mysql” db
• New checks for common index problems
• Upload: show filename or uploaded file
• Improved page selector when browsing foreign table values
• Improved handling of InnoDB constraints
• Speed ​​up display for left panel with PMA infrastructure is used
• New message “no activity…”

Fixes:

• Security fix against some crafted data allowing arbitrary program execution (if PHP safe mode is off and external transformations are activated)
• Security fix against a possible attack on read_dump.php (if PHP safe mode is off)
• Incorrect appending of LIMIT to queries
• Export: insufficient space to save
• Export: convert end of line chars we get from MySQL
• Wrong double column sort (with JOIN)
• Export: (mysqli) some fields wrongly exported as BINARY
• Illegal mix of collations for converted strings
• Wrong tabbing from value to value
• Allow work on temporary tables
• UNIX_TIMESTAMP and optional parameter
• Export: improved zip headers
• 0 as field name caused problems
• Incorrect handling when no default server defined
• Export: Use just for SQL exports
• Comments and multi-table selects
• Security: deactivate the list of programs for external transformations
• Incorrect handling or OFFSET
• Better displaying of table-specific privileges for a db containing an escaped character
• Since 2.6.0-pl3, connecting on a non-standard HTTP port did not work

[break]The following downloads are available:
phpMyAdmin 2.6.1-rc1, bzip 2 file
phpMyAdmin 2.6.1-rc1, tarball
phpMyAdmin 2.6.1-rc1, zip file