NukeEvangelist writes:  

good news at phpmyadmin.net and see the new version:

phpMyAdmin 2.9.0-rc1 is released - get the fresh and very hot version today

Welcome to this first release candidate. It now contains a minimal config.sample.inc.php and displays links to international MySQL doc whenever possible.

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see more good news on phpmyadmin.net and see the new wikipages and the great demo-section where you can testrun the new version with all the features