Software Update: phpMyAdmin 2.6.2

After a few betas and release candidates, the developers of phpMyAdmin have become confident enough to release the final release of version 2.6.2. The software is in different flavors from this page to download. phpMyAdmin consists of a collection of PHP scripts that make it easy to maintain and manage a MySQL database via a web interface. The release notes of version 2.6.2 look like this:

Note:

If you are using the ‘cookie’ authentication type, please delete in your browser’s data the cookies which relate to phpMyAdmin, before your first use of phpMyAdmin 2.6.2. Thanks to Dmitry Chorine for the information.

Improvements:

• MySQL 4.1.x native column comments
• MySQL 5.0: Basic detection mechanism for views:
  • Views are no longer displayed as tables in use
  • Ability to drop views
• MySQL 5.0: Interface fixes and hardcoded virtual relations for information_schema
• MySQL 4.1: Better automatic detection for available storage engines
• New storage engines overview page
  • Plugin-like infrastructure for storage engine status monitors
  • Overview of startup variables and current values
  • MySQL 5.0 / InnoDB: Buffer pool activity monitor
• MySQL 4.1.2+ TIMESTAMP options
• Export: Native Microsoft Word 2000 and Excel 2000 formats
• PDF schema visual editor: column names now optional
• MySQL 5.0.3 new Japanese charsets support (cp932, eucjpms)
• Parser: added missing date and time MySQL functions
• Documentation: explain all Export options handling
• Cookie paths: added / to end of path
• Show database comments at more places
• Better use of print styles in themes
• Bookmarks: sort by label, remove the number before each label
• Better protection against possible collation conflicts and out-of-sync errors in PMADB queries
• Relation view: removed pmadb-style comments handling (now available just on the Structure page)
• FAQ about using HTTP authentication under IIS
• New editions for some language files (especially ISO-8859-15)
• (rc1) English messages improvements
• (final) New language: belarusian

Fixes:

• Detection of SELECT query to display on multiple submits
• PDF schema: missing header
• A failed connection was not properly detected
• Problem with Japanese language under MySQL 4.1.x
• Export
  • Various errors under mysqli extension
  • SQL format under Safari browser
  • Do not offer export modes not available in current MySQL version
• Changing the type of a FLOAT unsigned column
• Adding field with collation
• Calendar popup and TIMESTAMP field under MySQL 4.1.x
• PHP 4.1.x: wrong parameter count (mcrypt.lib.php)
• Problem when SHOW DATABASES is disabled
• Copy table: commands out of sync
• User management
  • Host not changing with editing user
  • Escaping character removed by error
• MySQL 5.0.x: “No database selected” error
• Print view: displaying of indexes
• Cookie auth: error when blowfish_secret is empty
• MySQL 4.1.2: “Reload MySQL” link not seen
• MySQL 5 server binlog compatibility
• PDF pages generation: wrong documentation
• Inserted row id was not always correctly reported
• (rc1) Don’t offer unavailable collations
• (rc1) XSS vulnerability on “convcharset”
• (rc1) Do not allow to drop information_schema
• (rc1) Undefined offset (on the left panel)
• (rc1) Problem copying InnoDB table with foreign-key constraints to a table in the same database
• (final) Problem editing a user’s profile
• (final) Error going from Export to Insert tab

[break]The following downloads are available:
phpMyAdmin-2.6.2.tar.bz2
phpMyAdmin-2.6.2.tar.gz
phpMyAdmin-2.6.2.zip