History of phpMyAdmin - Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.1 for Effective MySQL Management - page 293

In 1999, and the first half of 2000, Tobias improved the navigation system, added
features, and merged more language files. His project site maintained a discussion
forum allowing new ideas to come along and patches to be discussed. Version 2.1.0
was released on August 06, 2000, which was the last version released by Tobias, who
had no more time to devote to this project.
Project re-launch
However, user base had already multiplied, and they were asking for more of the
product. Patches were floating on the Internet, with no way of coordinating them. A
security alert (and fix) had been published by a third-party, but no new version was
being released. Finally, on March 31, 2001, Olivier Müller registered the phpMyAdmin
project on SourceForge.net , and released a 2.2.0 pre-launch version. It was then
called the unofficial version. This restart of the project attracted some developers,
who now had the SourceForge infrastructure (CVS server, forums, bug trackers, and
mailing lists) to help speed up the development. I personally re-joined the project in
May 2001, and started fixing and improving the code, as my co-developers were doing.
We became official on May 28, 2001, as Tobias accepted our version as the new
official one. I remember those months of very intense development effort, with
daily improvements and bug fixes, along with new documentation sections.
This effort culminated on August 31, 2001, with the release of version 2.2.0.
Here's an excerpt from the announcement file for 2.2.0:
"After five months, five beta releases, and four release candidate versions,
the phpMyAdmin developers are pleased to announce the availability of
phpMyAdmin 2.2.0. [...] on March 31, 2001. Olivier Müller (Switzerland),
supported by Marc Delisle (Québec), Loïc Chapeaux (France), and a
team of eight other developers re-started the phpMyAdmin project on
SourceForge.net , with the authorization of the original package
maintainer. Now, after five months of patches, bug fixes, new features,
and testing, the version 2.2.0 is finally ready."
This version had security fixes and seven new languages (with dynamic
language detection). The code had been reworked to be CSS2 and XHTML
1.0 compliant, and to follow the PEAR coding guidelines. The bookmarks
feature appeared in this version, and this came from a separate add-on called
"phpMyBookmark".