phpMyAdmin 5.0.0 Is Here To Help Weed Out Outdated PHP Installations
Including lots of UX/UI changes and a new theme
If you have to do with anything related to webdevelopment or maintaining a website, you’ve probably come across the phpMyAdmin software. It’s the de-facto standard for WordPress maintenance and WordPress powers one third of the web. With phpMyAdmin it’s relatively easy to work with WordPress tables and even set up a new database for, e.g. a second WordPress installation.
PHP has made a couple of huge steps towards a performant future of classical server side programming. It’s not recommended to use old PHP versions and yet, they’re everywhere and thousands of servers are at risk.
According to the official release announcement, phpMyAdmin 5.0.0 drops support for PHP 5.5, PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 since those are outdated, unmaintained versions which reached end-of-life a long time ago.
Additional changes in this new major release:
- new Metro theme
- initial Bootstrap 4 support
- improved column rendering
- strict mode enabled in PHP files
- database searches include all tables by default
- CSS compiled via SASS instead of PHP
