phpMyAdmin 4.0.0 Alpha 1 Ditches HTML Frames

phpMyAdmin, the popular tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases, has just reached version 4.0.0 Alpha 1.

The developers of phpMyAdmin have just released a new development version in a new branch of the application.

Highlights of phpMyAdmin 4.0.0 Alpha 1:

• The HTML frames have been removed;
• The navigation panel now presents a tree;
• The current version of phpMyAdmin now requires Javascript;
• The documentation has a new look and contains an index.
• Many bug fixes and smaller new features have been implemented.

A complete list changes can be found in the official changelog.

Download phpMyAdmin 4.0.0. Alpha 1 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.