Welcome to the release candidate version of the upcoming 4.8.0 release. This is likely to be the final testing release before 4.8.0 is officially released.

This is a pre-release version, so please check any bugs against the issue tracker and report new ones at .

A complete list of new features and bugs that have been fixed is available in the ChangeLog file or changelog.php included with this release.

Notable changes since 4.8.0-alpha1:
* Designer: fix broken "Add tables from other database"
* Fix double escaping of ENUM dropdown
* Restore SQL query after session expires
* Query builder: Fix for new column not being added
* Fix for blank login page
* Changes to the handling of arg_separator for AJAX requests; see issue #13940
* Structure tab: fix silent failure to create new indexes
* Fix improperly escaped HTML code on the database structure page
* Fix JavaScript errors when using Internet Explorer (in particular when editing rows)
* Fix for broken error report
* Fix failed import
* Fix for "Cannot read property sql_query of undefined" errors

The remaining notes are for changes from the 4.7.x branch to 4.8.0 and also applied to 4.8.0-alpha1.

Major changes include security enhancements such as removing the PHP eval() function and authentication logging, a mobile interface to improve the interface when used with tablets or mobile phones, and two-factor authentication options.

A few highlights of the changes include:

* Allow the removal of individual segments from pie charts
* Improved database search to allow matching the exact phrase
* phpMyAdmin no longer requires using the PHP eval() function
* The mbstring dependency is now optional
* Authentication logging using $cfg['AuthLog'] 
* Add support for Google's Invisible Captcha
* Improved handling of reCAPTCHA
* Fixes to the JavaScript editor for TIME values
* Improved the editor for the JSON data type
* Add "Format" button to the edit view form
* Implement mobile interface
* There are now configuration directives to set defaults for Transformation options 
* Allow Designer to show tables from other databases
* Add support for authentication using U2F and 2FA

Much of this work is thanks to the hard work of our Google Summer of Code 2017 students. We're participating again, see .

Additionally, there have been continuous improvements to many of the translations. If you don't see your language or find a problem, you can contribute too; see  for details.

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