Welcome to phpMyAdmin 3.4.0, presenting a new default theme. This release contains new features, especially:

• User preferences
• Relation schema export to multiple formats
• ENUM/SET editor
• Simplified interface for export/import
• AJAXification of some parts
• Charts
• Visual query builder

And here is the ChangeLog :

3.4.0.0 (2011-05-11)

• + RFE #2890226 [view] Enable VIEW rename
• + RFE #838637 [privileges] Export a user's privileges
• [core] Updated mootools to fix some glitches with Safari.
• + RFE #2816943 [interface] Add REGEXP ^...$ to select dialog.
• + RFE #2924956 [interface] Add insert ignore option to editing row.
• + RFE #2838080 [interface] Show warning when javascript is disabled.
• + RFE #2823707 [edit] Call UUID function separately to show it in insert.
• + RFE #2420684 [export] Allow export of timestamps in UTC.
• + [core] Remove config data from session as it brings chicken-egg problem.
• + [core] Cookie path now honors pmaabsoluteuri.
• + RFE #2393597 [core] phpmyadmin honors https in pmaabsoluteuri.
• + RFE #1778337 [core] Try moving tables by RENAME and fail to CREATE/INSERT if that fails.
• + RFE #1721189 [core] Force reload js on code change.
• + RFE #1954161 [interface] Do not display long numbers in server status.
• + RFE #2033616 [edit] Add option to just display insert query.
• + RFE #1435032 [interface] Move SSL status to the end, it is usually empty.
• + RFE #1340812 [interface] Show numbers of columns in table structure.
• + RFE #1186511 [inrerface] Add link to reload navigation frame.
• + RFE #2936156 [auth] Signon authentication forwards error message through session data.
• + RFE #2835109 [interface] Move ^1 to the end of message.
• + RFE #854911  [interface] Grey out non applicable actions in structure
• + [interface] Allow to create new table from navigation frame (in light mode).
• + RFE #1025696 [browse] Add direct download of binary fields.
• [browse] Properly display NULL value for BLOB.
• RFE #1516803 [edit] Allow to set BLOB to/from NULL with protectbinary.
• [edit] Do not default to UNHEX when using file upload.
• RFE #1379201 [core] Add option to configure session_save_path.
• + [interface] Provide links to documentation in highlighted SQL.
• + [interface] It is now possible to bookmark most pages in JS capable browser.
• Bug #2936482 [core] Fix SSL detection.
• + RFE #2937850 [doc] Add some hints to chk_rel.php for quick setup.
• + RFE #2938579 [interface] Add class to some elements for easier theming.
• + RFE #2937840 [doc] Add some interesting configs to config.sample.inc.php.
• + RFE #2792992 [doc] Added advice to re-login after changing pmadb settings
• + patch #2952353 [interface] Prefill "Copy table to" in tbl_operations.php, thanks to iinl
• + [lang] Add English (United Kingdom) translation, thanks to Robert Readman.
• + patch #2948421 [auth] HTTP Basic auth realm name,
• Thanks to Harald Jenny
• Bug #2954916 [interface] Do not insert doc links to not formatted SQL.
• + [lang] Chinese Simplified update, thanks to Shanyan Baishui
• + [lang] Turkish update, thanks to Burak Yavuz
• + RFE #2963310 [interface] Focus TEXTAREA "sql_query" on click on "SQL" link
• + [lang] Uzbek update, thanks to Orzu Samarqandiy
• + RFE #2958013 [import] After import, also list uploaded filename, thanks
• To Pavel Konnikov and Herman van Rink
• + patch #2974341 [structure] Clicking on table name in db Structure should
• Browse the table if possible, thanks to bhdouglass
• + patch #2975533 [search] New search operators, thanks to
• Martynas mickeviäius
• + patch #2967320 [designer] Colored relations based on the primary key, thanks to greenrover
• [core] Provide way for vendors to easily change paths to config files.
• + patch #2979922, RFE #2804874 [interface] Add inline query editing, thanks to Muhammd Adnan.
• Bug #2966752 [setup] Allow to configure changes tracking in setup script.
• + patch #2981165 [edit] Optionally disable the Type column,  thanks to Brian Douglass
• + patch #2984058 [edit] Buttons for quicky creating common SQL queries, thanks to sutharshan.
• + patch #2984337 [interface] Convert loading of export/import to jquery ready event, thanks to sutharshan.
• [edit] CURRENT_TIMESTAMP is also valid for datetime fields.
• Patch #2985068 [engines] Fix parsing of PBXT status, thanks to Madhura Jayaratne.
• Patch #2986073 [interface] Convert upload progress bar to jquery, thanks to Philip Frank.
• Patch #2983960 [interface] Add javascript validation of datetime input, thanks to Sutharshan Balachandren.
• RFE #2981999 [interface] Default sort order is now SMART.
• RFE #2972969 [interface] Fix flipping of headers in non-IE browsers.
• + RFE #2964518 [interface] Allow to choose servers from configuration for synchronisation.
• + RFE #2988633 [relation] Improve ON DELETE/ON UPDATE drop-downs
• + RFE #2988629 [relation] Improve labels in relation view
• + RFE #2983207, patch #2988715 [interface] Use jquery calendar dialog, thanks to Muhammad Adnan.
• + [doc] Incorporate synchronisation docs into main document.
• + [core] Include Content Security Policy HTTP headers.
• Bug #3004216 [CSS] Field attributes use inline CSS
• Patch #2999595, RFE #2998130 [interface] Cleanup navigation frame.
• Patch #3025161 [core] Prevent sending of unnecessary cookies,  thanks to Piotr Przybylski
• Bug [password] Generate password only available if JS is enabled (fixed for Privileges and Change password)
• [core] recodingengine now accepts none as valid option.
• + [core] Dropped allowanywhererecoding configuration variable.
• RFE #3016457 [interface] Define tab order in SQL form to allow easier tab navigation.
• + [core] Centralized format string expansion, @VARIABLES@ are recommended way now, used by file name templates, default queries, export and title generating.
• + [validator] SQL validator works also with SOAP PHP extension.
• [interface] Better formatting for SQL validator results.
• [doc] The linked-tables infrastructure is now called phpmyadmin configuration storage.
• [interface] Move drop/empty links from being tabs to Operations tab.
• [interface] Fixed rendering of error/notice/info titles background.
• Patch #3038293 [doc] Language and grammar fixes, thanks to Isaac Bennetch
• Patch #3038312 [export] JSON export,  thanks to Hauke Henningsen
• RFE #1494550 [interface] Editor for SET/ENUM fields.
• RFE #2649375 [interface] Simplified interface to backup/restore.
• RFE #2973909 Users preferences
• [relations] Dropped WYSIWYG-PDF configuration variable.
• RFE #806035, bug #686260 [relations] Export relations to Dia, SVG and others
• + [interface] Added charts to status tab, profiling page and query results
• + [interface] ajaxification on various pages
• [core] Remove last remaining parts of profiling code which was removed in 2006.
• Bug #3042665 [parser] Add workaround for mysql way of handling backtick.
• Bug #3056610 [interface] Removed modification options for information_schema
• + patch #3055886 [config] Add Left frame table filter visibility config option, thanks to eesau
• [core] Force generating of new session on login
• + RFE #1105678 [interface] Drop page-break-before as it is useless for smaller tables.
• + RFE #2956556 [interface] Allow to wrap enum values.
• Bug #1669459 [interface] Do not automatically mark PDF schema rows to delete
• Bug #3087682 [interface] Do not apply leftframedbseparator on first character.
• + RFE #3111455 [interface] Column highlighting and marking in table view
• + Visual query builder
• Bug #3115519 [interface] Prevent long queries from being shown in confirmation popup
• Patch #3112792 [navi] Left panel table grouping incorrect, thanks to garas - garas
• Bug #3123433 [interface] Avoid double escaping of mysql errors.
• [interface] Use less noisy message and remove disable link on server charts and database statistics.
• + rfe #3141330 [relation] When displaying results, show a link to the foreign table even when phpmyadmin configuration storage is not active
• Bug #3141327 [relation] Foreign key input options
• [export] Better handling of export to PHP array.
• Rfe #3158867 [privileges] No DROP DATABASE warning if you delete a user
• [interface] Add link to documentation for status variables.
• [security] Redirect external links to avoid Referer leakage.
• [interface] Default to not count tables in database.
• Patch #3172172 [interface] Shortcut for copying table row.
• Bug #3175227 [auth] Reset user cache on login.
• Rfe #3148361 [interface] Replace hard coded limit with $cfg['limitchars'].
• Bug #3177136 [interface] Indicate that bookmark is being used on browse.
• [interface] Indicate shared bookmarks in interface.
• Patch #3176420 [Search] Ajaxify browse and delete criteria in DB Search, thanks to Thilanka Kaushalya
• [interface] New default theme pmahomme, dropped darkblue_orange theme.
• Rfe #2936155 [auth] Allow to pass additional parameters using signon method.
• Rfe #1640812 [auth] Add example for openid authentication using signon method.
• Rfe #1312657 [dbi] Default to mysqli extension.
• Rfe #1168350 [interface] Add clear button to SQL edit box.
• [core] Update library phpexcel to version 1.7.6
• Bug #3206876 [core] Work without mbstring installed.
• Rfe #3196075, patch #3212068 [interface] Add links to variables documentation.
• Bug #3208723 [import] Fix import of utf-8 XML files.
• Bug #3039384 [auth] Force signon auth on signon URL change.
• Bug #3168733 [core] Synchronization does not honor allowarbitraryserver
• Bug #3134495 [synchronization] Data containing single quotes prevents sync, thanksto jviewer
• Remove the custom color picker feature
• Bug #3285929 [privileges] Don't fail silently on missing priviledge to execute REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES