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Posted: 07. April 2015 23:45
Hi,
I installed XAMPP two days ago. I think it's great and appreciate this community approach to software development.
Last night, I noticed a banner near the bottom of the local phpMyAdmin page advising me to upgrade to version 4.4.0, which was released on April 1. This is above the banner in red urging me to set a password, which I also need to look into. Today, the upgrade banner has changed to advise me to upgrade to 4.4.1, released today.
I don't see any link or menu entry for for upgrading. The local phpMyAdmin documentation has a section called, "Upgrading from an older version," which says some things to do and not do when upgrading, but does not say where to get the newest version. The online doc for phpMyAdmin has a page on installation (http://docs.phpmyadmin.net/en/latest/setup.html), which has a section called "Quick Install," which has four steps that are quite complicated. I certainly wouldn't want to do that every week if that is how often new versions of phpMyAdmin come out.
The local phpMyAdmin page says that it's running version 4.2.11. I found a list of old versions at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/files/phpMyAdmin/
which does not show a version 4.2.11, but has versions 4.2.10 and 4.2.12 from last October and November.
I then found a list of versions of XAMPP at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Windows/
I don't know what to make of it because the version numbers jump from 1.8.2 last August to both 5.5.19 and 5.6.3 on last Nov. 19. But that date is consistent with the version of phpMyAdmin in it being 4.2.11.
So I have four questions:
1. Do I need to upgrade phpMyAdmin now and should I be doing that with every new version?
2. Does that mean going through the complex procedure described under "Quick Install" (linked above)?
3. Is that procedure compatible with a XAMPP installation of phpMyAdmin?
4. Is there something I should be doing to ensure that all the components of XAMPP are kept up-to-date?
Thanks for your help.
I installed XAMPP two days ago. I think it's great and appreciate this community approach to software development.
Last night, I noticed a banner near the bottom of the local phpMyAdmin page advising me to upgrade to version 4.4.0, which was released on April 1. This is above the banner in red urging me to set a password, which I also need to look into. Today, the upgrade banner has changed to advise me to upgrade to 4.4.1, released today.
I don't see any link or menu entry for for upgrading. The local phpMyAdmin documentation has a section called, "Upgrading from an older version," which says some things to do and not do when upgrading, but does not say where to get the newest version. The online doc for phpMyAdmin has a page on installation (http://docs.phpmyadmin.net/en/latest/setup.html), which has a section called "Quick Install," which has four steps that are quite complicated. I certainly wouldn't want to do that every week if that is how often new versions of phpMyAdmin come out.
The local phpMyAdmin page says that it's running version 4.2.11. I found a list of old versions at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/files/phpMyAdmin/
which does not show a version 4.2.11, but has versions 4.2.10 and 4.2.12 from last October and November.
I then found a list of versions of XAMPP at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Windows/
I don't know what to make of it because the version numbers jump from 1.8.2 last August to both 5.5.19 and 5.6.3 on last Nov. 19. But that date is consistent with the version of phpMyAdmin in it being 4.2.11.
So I have four questions:
1. Do I need to upgrade phpMyAdmin now and should I be doing that with every new version?
2. Does that mean going through the complex procedure described under "Quick Install" (linked above)?
3. Is that procedure compatible with a XAMPP installation of phpMyAdmin?
4. Is there something I should be doing to ensure that all the components of XAMPP are kept up-to-date?
Thanks for your help.