I tested phpMyAdmin with MySQL 5.0.0-alpha.

ChangeLog

@@ -5,8 +5,11 @@ phpMyAdmin - Changelog
 $Id$
 $Source$
 
+2003-12-27 Alexander M. Turek  <tragickingdom@derrabus.de>
+    * Documentation.html, README: I tested phpMyAdmin with MySQL 5.0.0-alpha.
+
 2003-12-25 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
-    * db_details_qbe.php: error when generating joins 
+    * db_details_qbe.php: error when generating joins
     * Documentation.html: FAQ 6.22: default bookmark execution
 
 2003-12-23 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
@@ -43,7 +46,7 @@ $Source$
     * tbl_change.php: max BLOB upload size
 
 2003-12-12 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
-    * db_details.php, libraries/common.lib.php, lang/*: 
+    * db_details.php, libraries/common.lib.php, lang/*:
       new feature to display the maximum upload size
       TODO: detect if upload succeeded
 

Documentation.html

@@ -2396,19 +2396,21 @@ <h4>
     that the older your MySQL version is, the more limitations you will have to
     face.
     <br />
-    phpMyAdmin provides experimental support for MySQL&nbsp;4.1. That means that
-    although you can assign character sets to a table or field, phpMyAdmin will
-    not recode the data when inserting or extracting it. Instead, it will still
-    use the character set you specified for the MySQL connection.<br />
+    phpMyAdmin provides experimental support for MySQL&nbsp;4.1 and 5.0. That
+    means that although you can assign character sets to a table or field,
+    phpMyAdmin will not recode the data when inserting or extracting it.
+    Instead, it will still use the character set you specified for the MySQL 
+    onnection.<br />
     When compiling php, we strongly recommend that you manually link the MySQL
     extension to a MySQL client library of at least the same version since the
-    one that is bundled with php 4.x is rather old and might cause problems.
+    one that is bundled with current php distributions is rather old and might
+    cause problems.
     <br />
     Also, we do not yet support the imporoved MySQL extension (mysqli) that
     comes with php&nbsp;5. For the moment, the old MySQL extension should also
     work fine here, if compiled correctly.
     <br />
-    MySQL 5.0 and 5.1 are not yet supported.
+    MySQL&nbsp;5.1 is not yet supported.
 </p>
 
 <h4>

README

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ phpMyAdmin - Readme
 
   A set of PHP-scripts to administrate MySQL over the WWW.
 
-  Version 2.5.5-rc1
+  Version 2.5.6-dev
   -----------------
   http://www.phpmyadmin.net/
 
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ phpMyAdmin - Readme
   Requirements:
     php 4.1.0 or later
     MySQL 3.23.32 or later
-        Note: The implemented MySQL 4.1.x support is experimental!
-              For more details, see Documentation.txt /.html
+        Note: The implemented support for MySQL 4.1.x and 5.0.x is experimental!
+              For more details, see Documentation.txt / .html
     a web-browser (doh!)
 
   Summary: