Download phpMyAdmin 2.4.0

Via the mailing list of phpMyAdmin it was just told that after two release candidates of this software 2.4.0 final has now been released. The “concise” changelog can be seen below:

Some improvements:

• PDF pages
  • new data dictionary
  • support for deleting a PDF page definition
  • better browser support
• cookie login: login error message
• new server/user management interface with sub-pages
  • more intuitive interface
  • interface to most MySQL status variables
  • server traffic & query statistics
  • support new MySQL 4 privileges
  • support for user resource limits
  • privileges may now be edited without reloading the user tables
  • copy user profiles
• Export
  • export to LaTeX format
  • better handling of charset conversion
  • better output order of inserts/creates
  • export results of any single-table SELECT
• option to only copy data (append) to a table
• better handling of confirmation requests (bookmarks) and LIMIT
• support EXTRACT … FROM
• check/uncheck all for field selection
• moving cursor with ctrl/arrows in table creation and row editing
• images in PNG format where possible
• display UPDATE SQL statement after a row edit
• in Select sub-page, drop-down for ENUMs
• support for compressed connections to the MySQL server
• upload of binary file into a field
• new documentation layout
• (for phpMyAdmin developers) interface to DBG extension for debugging/profiling
• show blob size

Some fixes:

• output handler warning for PHP >=4.3.0
• usernames with “@” character
• links or submit buttons for db search results
• warning for bzip problem of PHP 4.2.1
• wrong “Back” left
• UNION processing generated undefined variables
• handling of “LOCAL” in recent MySQL versions for LOAD DATA INFILE
• wrong drop-down for foreign keys in Select sub-page
• wrong charset information in XML exports
• parsing error for the single quote case
• problem with SQL validator interface
• wrong parsing of INTERVAL and AUTO_INCREMENT
• no longer allow invalid options like UNSIGNED in SET/ENUM
• problem entering comments in Relationship view
• fix for kanji encoding problem
• empty field names on add fields page caused problems
• the quicklinks on top of each page are now pointing to the default tabs
• problem with receiving the database list with MySQL >= 4.0.2-alpha
• adjusted font sizes for Opera 7 for Windows and Konqueror
• problems with editing the contents of the SQL query boxes with Opera 7 for Windows
• query-by-example and only one table
• do not display edit link for database-independent queries
• fix some of the problems with record counting