HarryB wrote:Well, I installed the freshly downloaded package to C:\xampp and am running the control panel from that directory. phpinfo tells me that I have 7.3.11 although the splash panel on localhost does say 7.1.11 but I assume that is just an updating problem.
Yes, the Dashboard version is incorrect.
HarryB wrote:What else could I have done wrong?
Maybe you got a different MariaDB version running?
I have tested the MariaDB versions of the two 7z Versions of XAMPP 7.3.11 and both tell me in the CLI that they are MariaDB 10.4.8 versions
# mysql -u root
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 8
Server version: 10.4.8-MariaDB mariadb.org binary distribution
Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
MariaDB [(none)]>