Upgrading phpMyAdmin

Normally, upgrading is just a matter of installing the newer version into a separate directory and copying the previous version's config.inc.php to the new directory.

Note

An upgrade path or the first-installation path, which should not be taken, is to copy libraries/config.default.php to config.inc.php. This is because the default configuration file is version-specific, and is not guaranteed to work for the future versions.

New parameters appear from version to version. They are documented in Documentation.html and defined in libraries/config.default.php. If a configuration parameter is not present in config.inc.php, its value from libraries/config.default.php will be used. Therefore, we do not have to include it in config.inc.php ...

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