thanks On 11/18/11, Karen Langford <karen.langf...@oracle.com> wrote: > Dear MySQL users, > > MySQL Server 5.1.60, a new version of the popular Open Source > Database Management System, has been released. MySQL 5.1.60 is > recommended for use on production systems. > > For an overview of what's new in MySQL 5.1, please see > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-nutshell.html > > For information on installing MySQL 5.1.60 on new servers or upgrading > to MySQL 5.1.60 from previous MySQL releases, please see > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/installing.html > > MySQL Server is available in source and binary form for a number of > platforms from our download pages at > > http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ > > 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 > > For information on open issues in MySQL 5.1, please see the errata > list at > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/open-bugs.html > > The following section lists the changes in the MySQL source code since > the previous released version of MySQL 5.1. It may also be viewed > online at > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-60.html > > Enjoy! > > ======================================================================= > D.1.1. Changes in MySQL 5.1.60 (16 November, 2011) > > Functionality Added or Changed > > * Upgrading from an Advanced GPL RPM package to an Advanced RPM > package did not work. Now on Linux it is possible to use rpm > -U to replace any installed MySQL product by any other of the > same release family. It is not necessary to remove the old > produce with rpm -e first. (Bug #11886309) > > * MEMORY table creation time is now available in the CREATE_TIME > column of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES table and the > Create_time column of SHOW TABLE STATUS output. (Bug #51655, > Bug #11759349) > > Bugs Fixed > > * InnoDB Storage Engine: This fix improves the performance of > instrumentation code for InnoDB buffer pool operations. (Bug > #12950803, Bug #62294) > > * InnoDB Storage Engine: Data from BLOB columns could be lost if > the server crashed at a precise moment when other columns were > being updated in an InnoDB table. (Bug #12704861) > > * InnoDB Storage Engine: Lookups using secondary indexes could > give incorrect matches under a specific set of conditions. The > conditions involve an index defined on a column prefix, for a > BLOB or other long column stored outside the index page, with > a table using the Barracuda file format. (Bug #12601439) > > * InnoDB Storage Engine: This fix corrects cases where the MySQL > server could hang or abort with a long semaphore wait message. > (This is a different issue than when these symptoms occurred > during a CHECK TABLE statement.) (Bug #11766591, Bug #59733) > > * Replication: Issuing the following statements, in the order > shown, could cause a deadlock between the user thread and I/O > thread: > START SLAVE; > STOP SLAVE SQL_THREAD; > START SLAVE; > (Bug #11878104) > See also Bug #44312, Bug #11752963, Bug #38715, Bug #38716. > > * Internal conversion of zero to binary and back could yield a > result with incorrect precision. (Bug #12911710) > > * Valgrind warnings generated by filesort operations were fixed. > (Bug #12856915) > > * Several improvements were made to the libedit library bundled > with MySQL distributions, and that is available for all > platforms that MySQL supports except Windows. > > + Navigation keys did not work for UTF-8 input. > > + Word navigation and delete operations did not work for > UTF-8 input with Cyrillic characters. > > + Nonlatin characters were corrupted in overwrite mode for > UTF-8 input. > > + Long queries caused the statement history file to become > corrupted. > > + The Alt key caused history operations to fail. > (Bug #12605400, Bug #12613725, Bug #12618092, Bug #12624155, > Bug #12617651, Bug #12605388) > > * The help message for mysql_install_db did not indicate that it > supports the --defaults-file, --defaults-extra-file and > --no-defaults options. (Bug #58898, Bug #11765888) > > * An assertion designed to detect zero-length sort keys also was > raised when the entire key set fit in memory. (Bug #58200, Bug > #11765254) > > * myisampack could create corrupt FULLTEXT indexes when > compressing tables. (Bug #53646, Bug #11761180) > > * OPTIMIZE TABLE could corrupt MyISAM tables if myisam_use_mmap > was enabled. (Bug #49030, Bug #11757032) > > * If MySQL was configured with --without-plugin-innobase and > --with-plugin-innodb_plugin, to suppress building the built-in > InnoDB storage engine and build the InnoDB Plugin instead, the > innochecksum utility was not built. (Bug #47337, Bug > #11755544) > > * A linking problem prevented the FEDERATED storage engine > plugin from loading. (Bug #40942, Bug #11750417) > > * On Fedora, certain accesses to /var/lib/mysql/HOSTNAME.err > were blocked by SELinux policy, which made the server fail at > startup with the message: Manager of pid-file quit without > updating file (Bug #37165, Bug #12927740) > > * For FEDERATED tables, loss of connection to the remote table > during some insert operations could cause a server crash. (Bug > #34660, Bug #11747970) > > Thanks, > MySQL RE Team > Database Group, Oracle. > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=daihu...@gmail.com > >
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