diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 531fb70e9..1940239ea 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ phpMyAdmin - Changelog
 $Id$
 $Source$
 
+2003-11-18 Alexander M. Turek  <rabus@users.sourceforge.net>
+    * libraries/common.lib.php: Recognizing new 2.x config.inc.php revisions.
+
 2003-11-18 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
     * lang/*: strUpgradeMySQL -> strUpgrade with one more parameter
       for the product name
@@ -20,7 +23,7 @@ $Source$
     * read_dump.php3: Show result of last SHOW query when multiple queries.
     * scripts/create-release.sh: Generate also sizes of files, for
       files.inc.php on homepage.
-    
+
 2003-11-17 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
     * lang/french: update
     * lang/turkish update, thanks to Bora Alioglu
diff --git a/libraries/common.lib.php b/libraries/common.lib.php
index 74a41411b..7b154d116 100644
--- a/libraries/common.lib.php
+++ b/libraries/common.lib.php
@@ -135,7 +135,16 @@ h1    {font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: bold}
      * Includes compatibility code for older config.inc.php revisions
      * if necessary
      */
-    if (!isset($cfg['FileRevision']) || (int) substr($cfg['FileRevision'], 13, 3) < 211) {
+    if (isset($cfg['FileRevision'])) {
+        // converting revision string into an array
+        //     e.g. "Revision: 2.0" becomes array(2, 0).
+        $cfg['FileRevision'] = str_replace('$Revision$cfg['FileRevision']);
+        $cfg['FileRevision'] = str_replace(' $', '', $cfg['FileRevision']);
+        $cfg['FileRevision'] = explode('.', $cfg['FileRevision']);
+    } else {
+        $cfg['FileRevision'] = array(1, 1);
+    }
+    if ($cfg['FileRevision'][0] < 2) {
         include('./libraries/config_import.lib.php');
     }