phpMyAdmin 2.6.1

Using external transformations now requires PHP > 4.3.0

• Big speed improvement (if using auth_type = 'cookie') by usingthe mcrypt library (if available on your system)
• Improved wording when adding fields
• (mysqli) support for compressed protocol and CLIENT_LOCAL_FILES
• Clickable active server in left panel
• Improved ANSI mode in various scripts
• Hints added (light bulb)
• Database copying
• New Database Operations tab: note that many db operationshave been moved here, including the PDF schema generation dialog
• Optional simple blocking of root login
• Binary log display
• Index creating on multiple fields
• Improved displaying of messages below tabs
• Handle MySQL "duplicate entry" error
• User list: top index for user initials
• Support for OLD_PASSWORD() function
• Under MySQL 4.1.2+, we no longer need the control user to haverights over the "mysql" db
• New checks for common index problems
• Upload: show filename of uploaded file
• Improved page selector when browsing foreign table values
• Improved handling of InnoDB constraints
• Speed up display for left panel with PMA infrastructure is used
• New message "no activity..."
• Support of keywords NAMES and VIEW
• Can now edit next entry (based on the next numeric primary key)
• New warnings related to the use of mbstring
• Improved navigation in calendar
• Export: selectable SQL compatibility
• PDF schema: added support for output in UTF-8

• Securityfix against some crafted data allowing arbitrary program execution (ifPHP safe mode is off and external transformations are activated)
• Security fix against a possible attack on read_dump.php (if PHPsafe mode is off)
• Incorrect appending of LIMIT to queries
• Export: insufficient space to save
• Export: convert end of line chars we get from MySQL
• Wrong double column sort (with JOIN)
• Export: (mysqli) some fields wrongly exported as BINARY
• Illegal mix of collations for converted strings
• Wrong tabbing from value to value
• Allow work on temporary tables
• UNIX_TIMESTAMP and optional parameter
• Export: improved zip headers
• 0 as field name caused problems
• Incorrect handling when no default server defined
• Export: Use just for SQL exports
• Comments and multi-table selects
• Security: deactivate the list of programs for externaltransformations
• Incorrect handling of OFFSET
• Better displaying of table-specific privileges for a dbcontaining an escaped character
• Since 2.6.0-pl3, connecting on a non-standard HTTP port did notwork
• Do not catch Alt and Shift keys
• Do not duplicate constraints when exporting multiple databases
• Illegal length for LONGTEXT
• Moving/copying a table: problem with constraints copying
• Reloading frame on multiple queries
• Collations on non-text fields
• Use standardized MIME type for gzip/bzip2
• Problem with field names like 000
• Timestamps problem under MySQL 4.1.x
• Support Option key for field moving in Safari
• Error when adding a FLOAT field under MySQL 4.1.x
• Headers sent on invalid login
• Wrong treatment of MySQL error 1060
• Problem in bookmark logic when using MySQLi