diff --git a/ANNOUNCE.txt b/ANNOUNCE.txt index f132ae76d..339083602 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE.txt +++ b/ANNOUNCE.txt @@ -3,83 +3,77 @@ | '_ \| '_ \| '_ \| |\/| | | | | / _ \ / _` | '_ ` _ \| | '_ \ | |_) | | | | |_) | | | | |_| |/ ___ \ (_| | | | | | | | | | | | .__/|_| |_| .__/|_| |_|\__, /_/ \_\__,_|_| |_| |_|_|_| |_| -|_| |_| |___/ 2.2.0 +|_| |_| |___/ 2.3.0 + http://phpmyadmin.net - -phpMyAdmin 2.2.0 - 30. August 2001 -================================== +phpMyAdmin 2.3.0 - xx. July 2002 +================================ A set of PHP-scripts to administrate MySQL over the WWW. ----------------------------------------- - http://phpwizard.net/projects/phpMyAdmin/ - http://phpmyadmin.sourceforge.net/ - Announcement ------------ - After 5 months, 5 beta releases and 4 release candidate versions, + After 12 months of work and 3 release candidate versions, the phpMyAdmin developers are pleased to announce the availability - of phpMyAdmin 2.2.0. + of phpMyAdmin 2.3.0. phpMyAdmin is intended to handle the administration of MySQL over - the Web. The project was started by Tobias Ratschiller in 1998, - and is now one of the most popular PHP script used worldwide. + the Web, and is now one of the most popular PHP script used + worldwide: more than 1.2 million download in the past year! - (Un)fortunately, Tobias then stopped to work on phpMyAdmin last - year: the last version (2.1.0) was released on 6. August 2000. In - the mean time, there were many suggestions and good ideas around, - as well as a security advisory. - - That is why on 31st March 2001, Olivier Müller (Switzerland), - supported by Marc Delisle (Québec), Loïc Chapeaux (France) and a - team of 8 other developers re-started the phpmyadmin project on - SourceForge.net, with the authorization of the original package - maintainer. And now, after 5 months of patches, bugfixes, new - features and testing, the version 2.2.0 is finally ready. - - Available at http://phpmyadmin.sourceforge.net, it includes the - following highlights: + phpMyAdmin 2.3.0 includes the following highlights: Highlights ---------- - * Security fixes - * New languages: Thai, Swedish, Galician, Romanian, Slovak, - Japanese, Korean - * Dynamic multiple language support, with automatic browser - language detection - * Improved documentation - * Better file import/export possibilities - * PEAR, CSS2 and XHTML 1.0 compliant (as far as possible) - * User and Database administration page - * Gzip and HTTP compression support - * Removed necessity of magic_quotes_gpc (autodetection) - * Bookmarks (sql queries) feature - * Database usage statistics - * Javascript compatibility improvements - * Table maintenance features (repair, check, optimize) - * Maintained PHP3 compatibility - * Better BLOB support - * Table usage and row statistics - * Multiple table types - * Now backed by a full-time development team! :) + Some improvements: - Detailed list of changes since version 2.1 is available under - http://phpmyadmin.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog.txt + * 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 + + 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 + + Detailed list of changes since version 2.2.0 is available under + http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ChangeLog.txt Availability ------------ This software is available under the GNU General Public License V2.0. - You can get the newest version at http://phpmyadmin.sourceforge.net/ + You can get the newest version at http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ Available file formats are: .zip, .tar.gz and .tar.bz2. If you install phpMyAdmin on your system, it's recommended to subscribe to the news mailing list by adding your address under http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpmyadmin-news + This way, you will be informed of new updates and security fixes. It is a read only list, and traffic is not greater than a few mail every year. @@ -91,7 +85,7 @@ Support and Documentation The documentation is included in the software package as text and HTML file, but can also be downloaded from: - http://phpmyadmin.sourceforge.net/documentation/ + http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation/ The software is provided as is without any express or implied @@ -108,20 +102,13 @@ Support and Documentation Finally, an users support forum is also available under: - http://www.phpwizard.net/phorum/list.php?f=1 + http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=72909 Known bugs ---------- - There are still a few annoying but hard to fix bugs: - - * some browsers (IE5.0, Mozilla 0.8+) doesn't like to play with - binary data - * importing csv data may fail under very perticular circumstances - * aliases in sql queries aren't yet well handled - * out of memory error, when trying to create a table with more - than 14 fields (check the FAQ) + * ... To be informed about new releases fixing these problems, please subscribe to the news mailing list under @@ -143,7 +130,7 @@ phpMyAdmin is intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. - create and read dumps of tables - export and import CSV data - support single- and multi-user configuration - - communicate in more than 20 different languages + - communicate in more than 36 different languages Author & Copyright @@ -160,6 +147,8 @@ Author & Copyright Pete Kelly Steve Alberty Benjamin Gandon + Alexander M. Turek + Mike Beck + many other people (check the CREDITS file) This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify @@ -178,5 +167,5 @@ Author & Copyright -EOF -- Olivier Müller / 2001.08.30 +EOF -- Olivier Müller / 2002.07.xx diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index ee010e419..a100ebbc2 100755 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ phpMyAdmin - Changelog $Id$ $Source$ +2002-06-28 Olivier L. Müller + * ANNOUNCE.txt: preparing 2.3.0 announcement... Feel free + to improve and check + 2002-06-28 Marc Delisle * tbl_change.php3, tbl_properties_common.php3, new libraries/db_table_exists.lib.php3: menu on insert/edit