Dear MySQL users, MySQL Server 5.0.96, a new version of the popular Open Source Database Management System, has been released. Please note that the active maintenance of 5.0 has ended, and these builds are only provided because of the fixes to security bugs as described below.
The release is now available in source and binary form for a number of platforms from our archive download page at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ Mirror service for MySQL Server 5.0 has ended. Also, support for some platforms with very low demand has ended. Please bear in mind that MySQL 5.0 now receives extended support only, and that all active development is happening on MySQL 5.1, 5.5, and beyond. You will find the MySQL Lifecycle policy here: http://www.mysql.com/support For your own best interest, we strongly recommend all current users of MySQL 5.0 to upgrade to MySQL 5.1. We welcome and appreciate your feedback, bug reports, bug fixes, patches etc: http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Contributing This section documents all changes and bugfixes that have been applied since the last MySQL Server release (5.0.95). http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/news-5-0-96.html If you would like to receive more fine-grained and personalized update alerts about fixes that are relevant to the version and features you use, please consider subscribing to MySQL Enterprise (a commercial MySQL offering). For more details please see http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/advisors.html Changes in MySQL 5.0.96 (21 March, 2012) End of Product LifecycleActive development for MySQL Database Server version 5.0 has ended. Oracle offers various support offerings which may be of interest. For details and more information, see the MySQL section of the Lifetime Support Policy for Oracle Technology Products (http://www.oracle.com/us/support/lifetime-support/index.html). Please consider upgrading to a recent version. Functionality Added or Changed * yaSSL was upgraded from version 1.7.2 to 2.2.0. Thanks, Sunanda Menon Release Engineer, MySQL, Oracle. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql
