This release brought improved importing capabilities, simplified configuration, UI cleanup, and much more.

Notes

• Configuration files coming from before phpMyAdmin 2.3.0 (released on 2002-08-11) are no longer supported.
• You can still use your config.inc.php file, but this file can be simplified, containing only the parameters you want to change from their corresponding default value in config.default.php.

Improvements

• New plugin-based import module
• Some pages now use fieldsets for better look
• Better support for information_schema
• Upgrade script new options
• Better displaying of privileges when there are differences between the various user definition tables
• Structure: count unique value for each field
• Can now limit the list of shown languages
• User-specific upload and save server directories
• Remove Drop tab for mysql database
• New transformation: SQL pretty printing
• Ability to limit maximum size of extended insert
• Support for searching in the foreign key window
• Can now replace an existing bookmark
• New shortcuts for IP rules
• Detect lack of privileges for "Create new table"

Fixes

• Wrong display of localized MySQL error messages
• Need to select the primary key for MIME-based print view
• Handling of ENTER key when adding fields
• InnoDB: truncating icon and exact row count
• After dropping a db, links were missing
• Strict mode and auto-increment fields insertion
• Collation change for ENUM and SET
• Display problems on special characters in column name
• Links for MySQL documentation
• Escaping of "_"
• Could not edit privileges when different host in db and user
• Changing auto-increment value for InnoDB
• Correct sort order for foreign-key dropdowns
• Group database by rightmost separator
• Performance problem when inserting huge BLOBs
• Calendar popup and time beginning by 0
• (pl1) Security fix on variable import_blacklist
• (pl2) Create table dialog was not displayed on some MySQL 4.0.x installations