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Prepared announcement for 2.4.0. Please feel free to correct it if necessary.

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| .__/|_| |_| .__/|_| |_|\__, /_/ \_\__,_|_| |_| |_|_|_| |_|
|_| |_| |___/ 2.3.0
|_| |_| |___/ 2.4.0
http://phpmyadmin.net
phpMyAdmin 2.3.0 - 11. August 2002
================================
phpMyAdmin 2.4.0 - March 2nd, 2003
==================================
A set of PHP-scripts to administrate MySQL over the WWW.
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Announcement
------------
After 12 months of work and 4 release candidate versions,
After 7 months of work and 2 release candidate versions,
the phpMyAdmin developers are pleased to announce the availability
of phpMyAdmin 2.3.0.
of phpMyAdmin 2.4.0.
phpMyAdmin is intended to handle the administration of MySQL over
the Web, and is now one of the most popular PHP script used
worldwide: more than 1.2 million download in the past year!
worldwide: more than 3.1 million download in the past year!
phpMyAdmin 2.3.0 includes the following highlights:
phpMyAdmin 2.4.0 includes the following highlights:
Highlights
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Some improvements:
* new page layout for table and db properties
* centralized db for support tables
* can specify a different charset for MySQL and HTML
* utf-8 charset support
* schema output in PDF
* operators in field selection
* translation feedback page
* print view for SQL results
* EXPLAIN support
* generate PHP code from a query
* full database search
* IP-based Allow/Deny
* foreign table display field
* support for some MyISAM table options
* XML export
* query-by-example: automatic joins
* faster table delete under MySQL 4
* 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
* 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
Some fixes:
* CURDATE did not work in the function list
* javascript error with Mozilla and Opera
* a mysql error when dropping fields
* alter table was not working on a replicate
* bookmark error when the table no longer exists
* bad limit of the number of characters for numeric fields
* problem with headers in Apache 2
* 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" links
* 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 Relation 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 recieving the database list with MySQL >= 4.0.2-alpha
* adjusted font sizes for Opera 7 for Windows
* problems with editing the contents of the SQL query boxes with Opera 7
for Windows
Detailed list of changes since version 2.2.0 is available under
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ChangeLog.txt
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Known bugs
----------
* ...
* Querying UNION SELECTs may result in php errors about undefined variables.
Furthermore, the total number of rows may be not calculated correctly, here.
* Some users reported problems on machines with Zend Accelerator (TM).
* The MySQL 4.1.x and php 5.0.x branches are not yet supported by phpMyAdmin.
To be informed about new releases fixing these problems, please
subscribe to the news mailing list under
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- create and read dumps of tables
- export and import CSV data
- support single- and multi-user configuration
- communicate in more than 41 different languages
- add, delete and edit MySQL users
- communicate in more than 42 different languages
Author & Copyright
------------------
Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Tobias Ratschiller <tobias.ratschiller_at_maguma.com>
Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Tobias Ratschiller
<tobias.ratschiller_at_maguma.com>
Copyright (C) 2001- Marc Delisle <DelislMa_at_CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca>
Olivier M<>ller <om_at_omnis.ch>
Lo<4C>c Chapeaux <lolo_at_phpHeaven.net>
Robin Johnson <robbat2_at_users.sourceforge.net>
Armel Fauveau <armel.fauveau_at_globalis-ms.com>
Geert Lund <glund_at_silversoft.dk>
Korakot Chaovavanich <korakot_at_iname.com>
Pete Kelly <webmaster_at_trafficg.com>
Steve Alberty <alberty_at_neptunlabs.de>
Benjamin Gandon <gandon_at_isia.cma.fr>
Alexander M. Turek <rabus_at_users.sourceforge.net>
Mike Beck <mikebeck_at_users.sourceforge.net>
+ many other people (check the CREDITS file)
Michal Cihar <nijel_at_users.sourceforge.net>
Garvin Hicking <hicking_at_faktor-e.de>
+ many other people
(check the CREDITS section of our documentation)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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EOF -- Olivier M<>ller / 2002.08.11
EOF -- Alexander M. Turek / 2003.03.02

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$Id$
$Source$
2003-02-15 Alexander M. Turek <rabus@users.sourceforge.net>
* ANNOUNCE.txt: Prepared announcement for 2.4.0. Please feel free to correct
it if necessary.
2003-02-14 Alexander M. Turek <rabus@users.sourceforge.net>
* server_databases.php3, server_privileges.php3, lang/*.inc.php3:
Reimplemented "check privileges" feature.