Sorry, sorry, sorry. that was supposed to be a forward to a colleague :(
Shame on me :(


On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Walter Heck <li...@olindata.com> wrote:
> Really? less then a week after we upgraded? Tough luck, haha :)
>
> Walter
>
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> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Joerg Bruehe <joerg.bru...@sun.com> wrote:
>> Dear MySQL users,
>>
>> my sincere apologies for the noise -
>> this text is the final, official announcement; the word "DRAFT" in a
>> previous mailing's subject line was an oversight of mine.
>>
>> Jörg Brühe
>>
>> =====
>>
>> Dear MySQL users,
>>
>> MySQL Community Server 5.0.77, a new version of the popular Open Source
>> Database Management System, has been released.  The release is now
>> available in source and binary form  for a number of platforms from our
>> download pages at
>>
>>  http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/
>>
>> and mirror sites.  Note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at
>> this point in time, so if you can't find this version on some mirror,
>> please try again later or choose another download site.
>>
>> We welcome and appreciate your feedback, bug reports, bug fixes,
>> patches etc.:
>>
>>  http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Contributing
>>
>> The following section lists important, incompatible and security
>> changes since the previous (binary) MySQL Community Server 5.0.67
>> release.  The full changelog including many more fixes can be viewed
>> online at
>>
>>  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-cs-5-0-77.html
>>
>>
>> This is a bugfix release for the current production release
>> family.  It replaces MySQL 5.0.67 (binary) and 5.0.75 (source-only).
>>
>> Functionality added or changed:
>>
>>  * Security Enhancement: To enable stricter control over the
>>    location from which user-defined functions can be loaded,
>>    the plugin_dir system variable has been backported from
>>    MySQL 5.1. If the value is non-empty, user-defined
>>    function object files can be loaded only from the
>>    directory named by this variable. If the value is empty,
>>    the behavior that is used prior to the inclusion of
>>    plugin_dir applies: The UDF object files must be located
>>    in a directory that is searched by your system's dynamic
>>    linker. (Bug#37428: http://bugs.mysql.com/37428)
>>
>>  * A new status variable, Queries, indicates the number of
>>    statements executed by the server. This includes
>>    statements executed within stored programs, unlike the
>>    Questions variable which includes only statements sent to
>>    the server by clients.
>>    (Bug#41131: http://bugs.mysql.com/41131)
>>
>>  * Previously, index hints did not work for FULLTEXT
>>    searches. Now they work as follows:
>>    For natural language mode searches, index hints are
>>    silently ignored. For example, IGNORE INDEX(i) is ignored
>>    with no warning and the index is still used.
>>    For boolean mode searches, index hints are honored.
>>    (Bug#38842: http://bugs.mysql.com/38842)
>>
>> Bugs fixed:
>>
>>  * Important Change: Security Fix: Additional corrections
>>    were made for the symlink-related privilege problem
>>    originally addressed in MySQL 5.0.60. The original fix
>>    did not correctly handle the data directory path name if
>>    it contained symlinked directories in its path, and the
>>    check was made only at table-creation time, not at
>>    table-opening time later.
>>    (Bug#32167: http://bugs.mysql.com/32167, CVE-2008-2079
>>    (http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2
>>    079))
>>    See also Bug#39277: http://bugs.mysql.com/39277.
>>
>>  * Security Enhancement: The server consumed excess memory
>>    while parsing statements with hundreds or thousands of
>>    nested boolean conditions (such as OR (OR ... (OR ...
>>    ))). This could lead to a server crash or incorrect
>>    statement execution, or cause other client statements to
>>    fail due to lack of memory. The latter result constitutes
>>    a denial of service.
>>    (Bug#38296: http://bugs.mysql.com/38296)
>>
>>  * Incompatible Change: There were some problems using
>>    DllMain() hook functions on Windows that automatically do
>>    global and per-thread initialization for libmysqld.dll:
>>
>>       + Per-thread initialization: MySQL internally counts
>>         the number of active threads, which causes a delay
>>         in my_end() if not all threads have exited. But
>>         there are threads that can be started either by
>>         Windows internally (often in TCP/IP scenarios) or by
>>         users. Those threads do not necessarily use
>>         libmysql.dll functionality but still contribute to
>>         the open-thread count. (One symptom is a five-second
>>         delay in times for PHP scripts to finish.)
>>
>>       + Process-initialization: my_init() calls WSAStartup
>>         that itself loads DLLs and can lead to a deadlock in
>>         the Windows loader.
>>
>>    To correct these problems, DLL initialization code now is
>>    not invoked from libmysql.dll by default. To obtain the
>>    previous behavior (DLL initialization code will be
>>    called), set the LIBMYSQL_DLLINIT environment variable to
>>    any value. This variable exists only to prevent breakage
>>    of existing Windows-only applications that do not call
>>    mysql_thread_init() and work okay today. Use of
>>    LIBMYSQL_DLLINIT is discouraged and is removed in MySQL
>>    6.0. (Bug#37226: http://bugs.mysql.com/37226,
>>    Bug#33031: http://bugs.mysql.com/33031)
>>
>>  * Incompatible Change: SHOW STATUS took a lot of CPU time
>>    for calculating the value of the
>>    Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_latched status variable. Now
>>    this variable is calculated and included in the output of
>>    SHOW STATUS only if the UNIV_DEBUG symbol is defined at
>>    MySQL build time.
>>    (Bug#36600: http://bugs.mysql.com/36600)
>>
>>  * Incompatible Change: In connection with view creation,
>>    the server created arc directories inside database
>>    directories and maintained useless copies of .frm files
>>    there. Creation and renaming procedures of those copies
>>    as well as creation of arc directories has been
>>    discontinued.
>>    This change does cause a problem when downgrading to
>>    older server versions which manifests itself under these
>>    circumstances:
>>
>>      1. Create a view v_orig in MySQL 5.0.72 or higher.
>>
>>      2. Rename the view to v_new and then back to v_orig.
>>
>>      3. Downgrade to an older 5.0.x server and run
>>         mysql_upgrade.
>>
>>      4. Try to rename v_orig to v_new again. This operation
>>         fails.
>>
>>    As a workaround to avoid this problem, use either of
>>    these approaches:
>>
>>       + Dump your data using mysqldump before downgrading
>>         and reload the dump file after downgrading.
>>
>>       + Instead of renaming a view after the downgrade, drop
>>         it and recreate it.
>>
>>    The downgrade problem introduced by the fix for this bug
>>    has been addressed as
>>    Bug#40021: http://bugs.mysql.com/40021.
>>    (Bug#17823: http://bugs.mysql.com/17823)
>>
>>  * Replication: When rotating relay log files, the slave
>>    deletes relay log files and then edits the relay log
>>    index file. Formerly, if the slave shut down unexpectedly
>>    between these two events, the relay log index file could
>>    then reference relay logs that no longer existed.
>>    Depending on the circumstances, this could when
>>    restarting the slave cause either a race condition or the
>>    failure of replication.
>>    (Bug#38826: http://bugs.mysql.com/38826,
>>    Bug#39325: http://bugs.mysql.com/39325)
>>
>>  * In example option files provided in MySQL distributions,
>>    the thread_stack value was increased from 64K to 128K.
>>    (Bug#41577: http://bugs.mysql.com/41577)
>>
>>  * SET PASSWORD caused a server crash if the account name
>>    was given as CURRENT_USER().
>>    (Bug#41456: http://bugs.mysql.com/41456)
>>
>>  * The INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMA_PRIVILEGES table was
>>    limited to 7680 rows.
>>    (Bug#41079: http://bugs.mysql.com/41079)
>>
>>  * In debug builds, obsolete debug code could be used to
>>    crash the server.
>>    (Bug#41041: http://bugs.mysql.com/41041)
>>
>>  * CHECK TABLE ... FOR UPGRADE did not check for
>>    incompatible collation changes made in MySQL 5.0.48
>>    (Bug#27562: http://bugs.mysql.com/27562,
>>    Bug#29461: http://bugs.mysql.com/29461,
>>    Bug#29499: http://bugs.mysql.com/29499). This also
>>    affects mysqlcheck and mysql_upgrade, which cause that
>>    statement to be executed. See Section 2.18.3, "Checking
>>    Whether Table Indexes Must Be Rebuilt."
>>    (Bug#40984: http://bugs.mysql.com/40984)
>>    See also Bug#39585: http://bugs.mysql.com/39585.
>>
>>  * Some queries that used a "range checked for each record"
>>    scan could return incorrect results.
>>    (Bug#40974: http://bugs.mysql.com/40974)
>>
>>  * Certain SELECT queries could fail with a Duplicate entry
>>    error. (Bug#40953: http://bugs.mysql.com/40953)
>>
>>  * The FEDERATED handler had a memory leak.
>>    (Bug#40875: http://bugs.mysql.com/40875)
>>
>>  * IF(..., CAST(longtext_val AS UNSIGNED), signed_val) as an
>>    argument to an aggregate function could cause an
>>    assertion failure.
>>    (Bug#40761: http://bugs.mysql.com/40761)
>>
>>  * Prepared statements allowed invalid dates to be inserted
>>    when the ALLOW_INVALID_DATES SQL mode was not enabled.
>>    (Bug#40365: http://bugs.mysql.com/40365)
>>
>>  * mc.exe is no longer needed to compile MySQL on Windows.
>>    This makes it possible to build MySQL from source using
>>    Visual Studio Express 2008.
>>    (Bug#40280: http://bugs.mysql.com/40280)
>>
>>  * Support for the revision field in .frm files has been
>>    removed. This addresses the downgrading problem
>>    introduced by the fix for
>>    Bug#17823: http://bugs.mysql.com/17823.
>>    (Bug#40021: http://bugs.mysql.com/40021)
>>
>>  * If the operating system is configured to return leap
>>    seconds from OS time calls or if the MySQL server uses a
>>    time zone definition that has leap seconds, functions
>>    such as NOW() could return a value having a time part
>>    that ends with :59:60 or :59:61. If such values are
>>    inserted into a table, they would be dumped as is by
>>    mysqldump but considered invalid when reloaded, leading
>>    to backup/restore problems.
>>    Now leap second values are returned with a time part that
>>    ends with :59:59. This means that a function such as
>>    NOW() can return the same value for two or three
>>    consecutive seconds during the leap second. It remains
>>    true that literal temporal values having a time part that
>>    ends with :59:60 or :59:61 are considered invalid.
>>    For additional details about leap-second handling, see
>>    Section 9.7.2, "Time Zone Leap Second Support."
>>    (Bug#39920: http://bugs.mysql.com/39920)
>>
>>  * The server could crash during a sort-order optimization
>>    of a dependent subquery.
>>    (Bug#39844: http://bugs.mysql.com/39844)
>>
>>  * With the ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY SQL mode enabled, the check
>>    for non-aggregated columns in queries with aggregate
>>    functions, but without a GROUP BY clause was treating all
>>    the parts of the query as if they were in the select
>>    list. This is fixed by ignoring the non-aggregated
>>    columns in the WHERE clause.
>>    (Bug#39656: http://bugs.mysql.com/39656)
>>
>>  * The server crashed if an integer field in a CSV file did
>>    not have delimiting quotes.
>>    (Bug#39616: http://bugs.mysql.com/39616)
>>
>>  * CHECK TABLE failed for MyISAM INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables.
>>    (Bug#39541: http://bugs.mysql.com/39541)
>>
>>  * For a TIMESTAMP column in an InnoDB table, testing the
>>    column with multiple conditions in the WHERE clause
>>    caused a server crash.
>>    (Bug#39353: http://bugs.mysql.com/39353)
>>
>>  * The server returned a column type of VARBINARY rather
>>    than DATE as the result from the COALESCE(), IFNULL(),
>>    IF(), GREATEST(), or LEAST() functions or CASE expression
>>    if the result was obtained using filesort in an anonymous
>>    temporary table during the query execution.
>>    (Bug#39283: http://bugs.mysql.com/39283)
>>
>>  * References to local variables in stored procedures are
>>    replaced with NAME_CONST(name, value) when written to the
>>    binary log. However, an "illegal mix of collation" error
>>    might occur when executing the log contents if the
>>    value's collation differed from that of the variable. Now
>>    information about the variable collation is written as
>>    well. (Bug#39182: http://bugs.mysql.com/39182)
>>
>>  * Some recent releases for Solaris 10 were built on Solaris
>>    10 U5, which included a new version of libnsl.so that
>>    does not work on U4 or earlier. To correct this, Solaris
>>    10 builds now are created on machines that do not have
>>    that upgraded libnsl.so, so that they will work on
>>    Solaris 10 installations both with and without the
>>    upgraded libnsl.so.
>>    (Bug#39074: http://bugs.mysql.com/39074)
>>
>>  * With binary logging enabled CREATE VIEW was subject to
>>    possible buffer overwrite and a server crash.
>>    (Bug#39040: http://bugs.mysql.com/39040)
>>
>>  * Queries of the form SELECT ... REGEXP BINARY NULL could
>>    lead to a hung or crashed server.
>>    (Bug#39021: http://bugs.mysql.com/39021)
>>
>>  * Statements of the form INSERT ... SELECT .. ON DUPLICATE
>>    KEY UPDATE col_name = DEFAULT could result in a server
>>    crash. (Bug#39002: http://bugs.mysql.com/39002)
>>
>>  * Column names constructed due to wild-card expansion done
>>    inside a stored procedure could point to freed memory if
>>    the expansion was performed after the first call to the
>>    stored procedure.
>>    (Bug#38823: http://bugs.mysql.com/38823)
>>
>>  * Repeated CREATE TABLE ... SELECT statements, where the
>>    created table contained an AUTO_INCREMENT column, could
>>    lead to an assertion failure.
>>    (Bug#38821: http://bugs.mysql.com/38821)
>>
>>  * If delayed insert failed to upgrade the lock, it did not
>>    free the temporary memory storage used to keep newly
>>    constructed BLOB values in memory, resulting in a memory
>>    leak. (Bug#38693: http://bugs.mysql.com/38693)
>>
>>  * A server crash resulted from concurrent execution of a
>>    multiple-table UPDATE that used a NATURAL or USING join
>>    together with FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK or ALTER TABLE
>>    for the table being updated.
>>    (Bug#38691: http://bugs.mysql.com/38691)
>>
>>  * On ActiveState Perl, mysql-test-run.pl --start-and-exit
>>    started but did not exit.
>>    (Bug#38629: http://bugs.mysql.com/38629)
>>
>>  * Server-side cursors were not initialized properly, which
>>    could cause a server crash.
>>    (Bug#38486: http://bugs.mysql.com/38486)
>>
>>  * Stored procedures involving substrings could crash the
>>    server on certain platforms due to invalid memory reads.
>>    (Bug#38469: http://bugs.mysql.com/38469)
>>
>>  * A server crash or Valgrind warnings could result when a
>>    stored procedure selected from a view that referenced a
>>    function. (Bug#38291: http://bugs.mysql.com/38291)
>>
>>  * Incorrect handling of aggregate functions when loose
>>    index scan was used caused a server crash.
>>    (Bug#38195: http://bugs.mysql.com/38195)
>>
>>  * Queries containing a subquery with DISTINCT and ORDER BY
>>    could cause a server crash.
>>    (Bug#38191: http://bugs.mysql.com/38191)
>>
>>  * Queries with a HAVING clause could return a spurious row.
>>    (Bug#38072: http://bugs.mysql.com/38072)
>>
>>  * Use of spatial data types in prepared statements could
>>    cause memory leaks or server crashes.
>>    (Bug#37956: http://bugs.mysql.com/37956,
>>    Bug#37671: http://bugs.mysql.com/37671)
>>
>>  * The server crashed if an argument to a stored procedure
>>    was a subquery that returned more than one row.
>>    (Bug#37949: http://bugs.mysql.com/37949)
>>
>>  * When analyzing the possible index use cases, the server
>>    was incorrectly reusing an internal structure, leading to
>>    a server crash. (Bug#37943: http://bugs.mysql.com/37943)
>>
>>  * A SELECT with a NULL NOT IN condition containing a
>>    complex subquery from the same table as in the outer
>>    select caused an assertion failure.
>>    (Bug#37894: http://bugs.mysql.com/37894)
>>
>>  * For InnoDB tables, ORDER BY ... DESC sometimes returned
>>    results in ascending order.
>>    (Bug#37830: http://bugs.mysql.com/37830)
>>
>>  * If a table has a BIT NOT NULL column c1 with a length
>>    shorter than 8 bits and some additional NOT NULL columns
>>    c2, ..., and a SELECT query has a WHERE clause of the
>>    form (c1 = constant) AND c2 ..., the query could return
>>    an unexpected result set.
>>    (Bug#37799: http://bugs.mysql.com/37799)
>>
>>  * Nesting of IF() inside of SUM() could cause an extreme
>>    server slowdown. (Bug#37662: http://bugs.mysql.com/37662)
>>
>>  * The MONTHNAME() and DAYNAME() functions returned a binary
>>    string, so that using LOWER() or UPPER() had no effect.
>>    Now MONTHNAME() and DAYNAME() return a value in
>>    character_set_connection character set.
>>    (Bug#37575: http://bugs.mysql.com/37575)
>>
>>  * TIMEDIFF() was erroneously treated as always returning a
>>    positive result. Also, CAST() of TIME values to DECIMAL
>>    dropped the sign of negative values.
>>    (Bug#37553: http://bugs.mysql.com/37553)
>>
>>  * mysqlcheck used SHOW FULL TABLES to get the list of
>>    tables in a database. For some problems, such as an empty
>>    .frm file for a table, this would fail and mysqlcheck
>>    then would neglect to check other tables in the database.
>>    (Bug#37527: http://bugs.mysql.com/37527)
>>
>>  * The <=> operator could return incorrect results when
>>    comparing NULL to DATE, TIME, or DATETIME values.
>>    (Bug#37526: http://bugs.mysql.com/37526)
>>
>>  * Updating a view with a subquery in the CHECK option could
>>    cause an assertion failure.
>>    (Bug#37460: http://bugs.mysql.com/37460)
>>
>>  * Statements that displayed the value of system variables
>>    (for example, SHOW VARIABLES) expect variable values to
>>    be encoded in character_set_system. However, variables
>>    set from the command line such as basedir or datadir were
>>    encoded using character_set_filesystem and not converted
>>    correctly. (Bug#37339: http://bugs.mysql.com/37339)
>>
>>  * For a MyISAM table with CHECKSUM = 1 and ROW_FORMAT =
>>    DYNAMIC table options, a data consistency check (maximum
>>    record length) could fail and cause the table to be
>>    marked as corrupted.
>>    (Bug#37310: http://bugs.mysql.com/37310)
>>
>>  * The max_length result set metadata value was calculated
>>    incorrectly under some circumstances.
>>    (Bug#37301: http://bugs.mysql.com/37301)
>>
>>  * CREATE INDEX could crash with InnoDB plugin 1.0.1.
>>    (Bug#37284: http://bugs.mysql.com/37284)
>>
>>  * Certain boolean-mode FULLTEXT searches that used the
>>    truncation operator did not return matching records and
>>    calculated relevance incorrectly.
>>    (Bug#37245: http://bugs.mysql.com/37245)
>>
>>  * The NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES SQL mode was ignored for LOAD
>>    DATA INFILE and SELECT INTO ... OUTFILE. The setting is
>>    taken into account now.
>>    (Bug#37114: http://bugs.mysql.com/37114)
>>
>>  * On a 32-bit server built without big tables support, the
>>    offset argument in a LIMIT clause might be truncated due
>>    to a 64-bit to 32-bit cast.
>>    (Bug#37075: http://bugs.mysql.com/37075)
>>
>>  * If the server failed to expire binary log files at
>>    startup, it could crash.
>>    (Bug#37027: http://bugs.mysql.com/37027)
>>
>>  * The code for the ut_usectime() function in InnoDB did not
>>    handle errors from the gettimeofday() system call. Now it
>>    retries gettimeofday() several times and updates the
>>    value of the Innodb_row_lock_time_max status variable
>>    only if ut_usectime() was successful.
>>    (Bug#36819: http://bugs.mysql.com/36819)
>>
>>  * Use of CONVERT() with GROUP BY to convert numeric values
>>    to CHAR could return truncated results.
>>    (Bug#36772: http://bugs.mysql.com/36772)
>>
>>  * A query which had an ORDER BY DESC clause that is
>>    satisfied with a reverse range scan could cause a server
>>    crash for some specific CPU/compiler combinations.
>>    (Bug#36639: http://bugs.mysql.com/36639)
>>
>>  * Dumping information about locks in use by sending a
>>    SIGHUP signal to the server or by invoking the mysqladmin
>>    debug command could lead to a server crash in debug
>>    builds or to undefined behavior in production builds.
>>    (Bug#36579: http://bugs.mysql.com/36579)
>>
>>  * The mysql client, when built with Visual Studio 2005, did
>>    not display Japanese characters.
>>    (Bug#36279: http://bugs.mysql.com/36279)
>>
>>  * When the fractional part in a multiplication of DECIMAL
>>    values overflowed, the server truncated the first operand
>>    rather than the longest. Now the server truncates so as
>>    to produce more precise multiplications.
>>    (Bug#36270: http://bugs.mysql.com/36270)
>>
>>  * A read past the end of the string could occur while
>>    parsing the value of the --innodb-data-file-path option.
>>    (Bug#36149: http://bugs.mysql.com/36149)
>>
>>  * Host name values in SQL statements were not being checked
>>    for '@', which is illegal according to RFC952.
>>    (Bug#35924: http://bugs.mysql.com/35924)
>>
>>  * The UUID() function returned UUIDs with the wrong time;
>>    this was because the offset for the time part in UUIDs
>>    was miscalculated.
>>    (Bug#35848: http://bugs.mysql.com/35848)
>>
>>  * SHOW CREATE TABLE did not display a printable value for
>>    the default value of BIT columns.
>>    (Bug#35796: http://bugs.mysql.com/35796)
>>
>>  * mysql_install_db failed on machines that had the host
>>    name set to localhost.
>>    (Bug#35754: http://bugs.mysql.com/35754)
>>
>>  * Dynamic plugins failed to load on i5/OS.
>>    (Bug#35743: http://bugs.mysql.com/35743)
>>
>>  * Freeing of an internal parser stack during parsing of
>>    complex stored programs caused a server crash.
>>    (Bug#35577: http://bugs.mysql.com/35577,
>>    Bug#37269: http://bugs.mysql.com/37269,
>>    Bug#37228: http://bugs.mysql.com/37228)
>>
>>  * The max_length metadata value was calculated incorrectly
>>    for the FORMAT() function, which could cause incorrect
>>    result set metadata to be sent to clients.
>>    (Bug#35558: http://bugs.mysql.com/35558)
>>
>>  * Index scans performed with the sort_union() access method
>>    returned wrong results, caused memory to be leaked, and
>>    caused temporary files to be deleted when the limit set
>>    by sort_buffer_size was reached.
>>    (Bug#35477: http://bugs.mysql.com/35477,
>>    Bug#35478: http://bugs.mysql.com/35478)
>>
>>  * If the server crashed with an InnoDB error due to
>>    unavailability of undo slots, errors could persist during
>>    rollback when the server was restarted: There are two
>>    UNDO slot caches (for INSERT and UPDATE). If all slots
>>    end up in one of the slot caches, a request for a slot
>>    from the other slot cache would fail. This can happen if
>>    the request is for an UPDATE slot and all slots are in
>>    the INSERT slot cache, or vice versa.
>>    (Bug#35352: http://bugs.mysql.com/35352)
>>
>>  * For InnoDB tables, ALTER TABLE DROP failed if the name of
>>    the column to be dropped began with "foreign".
>>    (Bug#35220: http://bugs.mysql.com/35220)
>>
>>  * perror on Windows did not know about Win32 system error
>>    codes. (Bug#34825: http://bugs.mysql.com/34825)
>>
>>  * EXPLAIN EXTENDED evaluation of aggregate functions that
>>    required a temporary table caused a server crash.
>>    (Bug#34773: http://bugs.mysql.com/34773)
>>
>>  * Queries of the form SELECT ... WHERE string = ANY(...)
>>    failed when the server used a single-byte character set
>>    and the client used a multi-byte character set.
>>    (Bug#34760: http://bugs.mysql.com/34760)
>>    See also Bug#20835: http://bugs.mysql.com/20835.
>>
>>  * Using OPTIMIZE TABLE as the first statement on an InnoDB
>>    table with an AUTO_INCREMENT column could cause a server
>>    crash. (Bug#34286: http://bugs.mysql.com/34286)
>>
>>  * mysql_install_db failed if the server was running with an
>>    SQL mode of TRADITIONAL. This program now resets the SQL
>>    mode internally to avoid this problem.
>>    (Bug#34159: http://bugs.mysql.com/34159)
>>
>>  * The mysql client incorrectly parsed statements containing
>>    the word "delimiter" in mid-statement.
>>    This fix is different from the one applied for this bug
>>    in MySQL 5.0.66. (Bug#33812: http://bugs.mysql.com/33812)
>>    See also Bug#38158: http://bugs.mysql.com/38158.
>>
>>  * For a stored procedure containing a SELECT * ... RIGHT
>>    JOIN query, execution failed for the second call.
>>    (Bug#33811: http://bugs.mysql.com/33811)
>>
>>  * Previously, use of index hints with views (which do not
>>    have indexes) produced the error ERROR 1221 (HY000):
>>    Incorrect usage of USE/IGNORE INDEX and VIEW. Now this
>>    produces ERROR 1176 (HY000): Key '...' doesn't exist in
>>    table '...', the same error as for base tables without an
>>    appropriate index.
>>    (Bug#33461: http://bugs.mysql.com/33461)
>>
>>  * Cached queries that used 256 or more tables were not
>>    properly cached, so that later query invalidation due to
>>    a TRUNCATE TABLE for one of the tables caused the server
>>    to hang. (Bug#33362: http://bugs.mysql.com/33362)
>>
>>  * Some division operations produced a result with incorrect
>>    precision. (Bug#31616: http://bugs.mysql.com/31616)
>>
>>  * mysql_upgrade attempted to use the /proc file system even
>>    on systems that do not have it.
>>    (Bug#31605: http://bugs.mysql.com/31605)
>>
>>  * mysqldump could fail to dump views containing a large
>>    number of columns.
>>    (Bug#31434: http://bugs.mysql.com/31434)
>>
>>  * Queries executed using join buffering of BIT columns
>>    could produce incorrect results.
>>    (Bug#31399: http://bugs.mysql.com/31399)
>>
>>  * ALTER TABLE CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET did not convert
>>    TINYTEXT or MEDIUMTEXT columns to a longer text type if
>>    necessary when converting the column to a different
>>    character set. (Bug#31291: http://bugs.mysql.com/31291)
>>
>>  * On NetWare, mysql_install_db could appear to execute
>>    normally even if it failed to create the initial
>>    databases. (Bug#30129: http://bugs.mysql.com/30129)
>>
>>  * The Serbian translation for the
>>    ER_INCORRECT_GLOBAL_LOCAL_VAR error was corrected.
>>    (Bug#29738: http://bugs.mysql.com/29738)
>>
>>  * XA transaction rollbacks could result in corrupted
>>    transaction states and a server crash.
>>    (Bug#28323: http://bugs.mysql.com/28323)
>>
>>  * On Windows, Visual Studio does not take into account some
>>    x86 hardware limitations, which led to incorrect results
>>    converting large DOUBLE values to unsigned BIGINT values.
>>    (Bug#27483: http://bugs.mysql.com/27483)
>>
>>  * SSL support was not included in some "generic" RPM
>>    packages. (Bug#26760: http://bugs.mysql.com/26760)
>>
>>  * In some cases, the parser interpreted the ; character as
>>    the end of input and misinterpreted stored program
>>    definitions. (Bug#26030: http://bugs.mysql.com/26030)
>>
>>  * The Questions status variable is intended as a count of
>>    statements sent by clients to the server, but was also
>>    counting statements executed within stored routines.
>>    (Bug#24289: http://bugs.mysql.com/24289)
>>
>>  * For access to the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEWS table, the
>>    server did not check the SHOW VIEW and SELECT privileges,
>>    leading to inconsistency between output from that table
>>    and the SHOW CREATE VIEW statement.
>>    (Bug#22763: http://bugs.mysql.com/22763)
>>
>>  * The FLUSH PRIVILEGES statement did not produce an error
>>    when it failed. (Bug#21226: http://bugs.mysql.com/21226)
>>
>>  * A race condition between the mysqld.exe server and the
>>    Windows service manager could lead to inability to stop
>>    the server from the service manager.
>>    (Bug#20430: http://bugs.mysql.com/20430)
>>
>>  * mysqld_safe would sometimes fail to remove the pid file
>>    for the old mysql process after a crash. As a result, the
>>    server would fail to start due to a false A mysqld
>>    process already exists... error.
>>    (Bug#11122: http://bugs.mysql.com/11122)
>>
>>
>> On behalf of the MySQL Build Team at Sun,
>> Jörg Brühe
>>
>> --
>> Joerg Bruehe,  MySQL Build Team,     joerg.bru...@sun.com
>> Sun Microsystems GmbH,   Sonnenallee 1,   D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten
>> Geschaeftsfuehrer: Thomas Schroeder, Wolfgang Engels, Dr. Roland Boemer
>> Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering     Muenchen: HRB161028
>>
>>
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