While 2.6.2 is cooking, here is patch level 1 for 2.6.1, fixing some security problems and a few other bugs.

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Welcome to phpMyAdmin 2.6.1, the final version! After 2 release candidates and almost 4 months of development, this version is worth a download :)

A big "Thank You" to Michael Keck, member of the phpMyAdmin team, for the new site layout. We hope you like it.

We invite you to test this second (and probably last) release candidate of phpMyAdmin 2.6.1.

Please refer to http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2004-4
for this new alert.
Thanks,
Marc Delisle

Welcome to the first release candidate of phpMyAdmin 2.6.1. It contains some security fixes (see notes on phpmyadmin.net) and uses the mcrypt library (if present) for improved speed if using auth_type='cookie'.

If your web server is running on a port different than 80 or 443, and you have not defined $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'],
a small fix is needed.

In libraries/common.lib.php, line 1044
$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] .= $url['port'];
becomes:
$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] .= ':' . $url['port'];

Patch level 3 of phpMyAdmin 2.6.0 has been released, containing security fixes and another bug fix.

See http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2004-3

Hi,
"Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management" has been updated and translated,
see http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/books.php

Marc Delisle