MySQL 4.1 note

phpMyAdmin 2.5.0 is not ready for MySQL 4.1.

About future versions

The versions after 2.5.x will have those requirements: PHP >= 4.1.0 and MySQL >= 3.23.32.

Improvements

• distinct Query window
• field contents MIME transformations (inline resized images, links, external programs, etc)
• display column comments in exports
• automatic update of relations, display fields, comments, bookmarks, etc after table/column changes
• new display mode with 90 degree rotated headers
• display query time
• js row marker now works in vertical mode
• SQL history: db- or not-db-based
• optional vertical display of the columns in edit mode
• optional lightweight menu tabs
• InnoDB status monitor
• print button in db view
• new export page with dynamic options
• better security for docSQL importer
• in edit mode, display first the functions that match field type
• parameters for bookmarks queries
• support for changing auto-increment value
• default initial query in browse mode, based on a bookmark with the same name as the table
• execute bookmarks when browsing bookmarks table
• if available, display Create/Update/Check_time
• in browse mode, highlight the fields used in the WHERE condition for the query
• automatic layout of the PDF schema
• choose results page in browse mode
• automatic detection of compression for uploaded data
• CHECK TABLE/ANALYZE TABLE for multisubmit actions
• support for SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST
• can now insert multiple fields at cursor position in the query textarea
• can now choose all segments of a key (relations)

Fixes

• could not insert some words like "$enum$"
• bad URL (extra /) for generated PDFs
• double password query with http auth
• check privileges only shows root user
• display SQL query used for an index modification
• pdf schema headers footers for long pages
• export results and LIMIT
• inserting values with quotes
• $cfg["PmaAbsoluteUri"] autodetection and CGI mode
• escaping of \n, \r and \t characters
• handling of disabled :php:ini_get()
• go back to fields definition form after an error
• support XOR in the parser
• check for field type when doing charset conversion
• support for HTML entities as db/table/column names
• avoid long delays when browsing big tables (MySQL 4)
• support for host-based privileges
• bad arrow aligning on PDF schema in "same widths" mode
• faster record count
• "undefined index" error in the data dictionary when using MySQL 3.22 or below
• the privileges administration script did not work well with host-based DB privileges
• having added a new user, the corresponding SQL query was not displayed
• better "superuser" checking mechanism
• "wrong parameter count" error when connecting with some strangely compiled PHP versions
• replaced the %e placeholder in the date format string of some translations because it did not have any effect on Windows machines.
• unaligned column headers
• MONTH() and YEAR() not displayed as functions
• error on "Skip Explain SQL"
• bad Edit link on tables without primary key but with BLOB
• now we export BLOBs hex quoted
• better check for superuser in MySQL 4
• syntax error SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE...
• highlight fields crossing db borders
• FULLTEXT index type not shown in drop-down
• disable CSV export for multiple tables