Dear MySQL users,
MySQL Server 5.6.14, a new version of the popular Open Source Database Management System, has been released. MySQL 5.6.14 is recommended for use on production systems. For an overview of what's new in MySQL 5.6, please see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-nutshell.html Starting with 5.6.11, Microsoft Windows packages for MySQL 5.6 are available both as a "full" installer and as a "web" installer. The full installer is significantly larger and comes bundled with the latest software releases available. This bundle makes it easy to download and configure a full server and development suite. The web installer doesn't come bundled with any actual products and instead relies on download-on-demand to fetch only the products you choose to install. This makes the initial download much smaller but increases install time as the individual products will need to be downloaded. For information on installing MySQL 5.6.14 on new servers or upgrading to MySQL 5.6.14 from previous MySQL releases, please see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/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: https://wikis.oracle.com/display/mysql/Contributing The following section lists the changes in the MySQL source code since the previous released version of MySQL 5.6. It may also be viewed online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-14.html Enjoy! Changes in MySQL 5.6.14 (2013-09-20) Bugs Fixed * InnoDB; Partitioning: Following any query on the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PARTITIONS table, InnoDB index statistics as shown in the output of statements such as SHOW INDEX were updated, even with innodb_stats_on_metadata=OFF. (Bug #16860588) * InnoDB: When logging the delete-marking of a record during online ALTER TABLE...ADD PRIMARY KEY, InnoDB writes the transaction ID to the log as it was before the deletion or delete-marking of the record. When doing this, InnoDB would overwrite the DB_TRX_ID field in the original table, which could result in locking issues. (Bug #17316731) * InnoDB: The row_sel_sec_rec_is_for_clust_rec function would incorrectly prepare to compare a NULL column prefix in a secondary index with a non-NULL column in a clustered index. (Bug #17312846) * InnoDB: An incorrect purge would occur when rolling back an update to a delete-marked record. (Bug #17302896) * InnoDB: An assertion would be raised in fil_node_open_file due to a missing .ibd file. Instead of asserting, InnoDB should return false and the caller of fil_node_open_file should handle the return message. (Bug #17305626, Bug #70007) * InnoDB: The assertion ut_ad(oldest_lsn <= cur_lsn) in file buf0flu.cc would fail because the current max LSN would be retrieved from the buffer pool before the oldest LSN. (Bug #17252421) * InnoDB: InnoDB memcached add and set operations would perform more slowly than SQL INSERT operations. (Bug #17214191) * InnoDB: The InnoDB memcached plugin could be initialized to insert into an InnoDB table with an INTEGER primary key. (Bug #17203937) * InnoDB: As commented in log0log.h, old_lsn and old_buf_free should only be compiled when UNIV_LOG_DEBUG is enabled. (Bug #17160270, Bug #69724) * InnoDB: InnoDB would rename a user-defined foreign key constraint containing the string "_ibfk_" in its name, resulting in a duplicate constraint. (Bug #17076737, Bug #69693, Bug #17076718, Bug #69707) * InnoDB: A regression introduced in the fix for Bug #14606334 would cause crashes on startup during crash recovery. (Bug #16996584) * InnoDB: Rolling back an INSERT after a failed BLOB write would result in an assertion failure. The assertion has been modified to allow NULL BLOB pointers if an error occurs during a BLOB write. (Bug #16971045) * InnoDB: The ha_innobase::clone function would incorrectly assert that a thread cannot clone a table handler that is used by another thread, and that the original table handler and the cloned table handler must belong to the same transaction. The incorrect assertions have been removed. (Bug #17001980) * InnoDB: When dropping all indexes on a column with multiple indexes, InnoDB would fail to block a DROP INDEX operation when a foreign key constraint requires an index. (Bug #16896810) * InnoDB: An assertion failure would occur in file row0log.cc on ROW_FORMAT=REDUNDANT tables that contained an unexpected but valid data directory flag. (Bug #16863098) * InnoDB: A regression introduced with the fix for Bug #11762038 would cause InnoDB to raise an incorrect error message. The message stated that, "InnoDB cannot delete/update rows with cascading foreign key constraints that exceed max depth of 20". The error message would occur when killing connections reading from InnoDB tables that did not have foreign key constraints. (Bug #16710923) * InnoDB: In debug builds, an assertion failure would occur if innodb_log_group_home_dir does not exist. Instead of an assertion, InnoDB now aborts with an error message if innodb_log_group_home_dir does not exist. (Bug #16691130, Bug #69000) * InnoDB: For the Barracuda file format and beyond, the externally stored prefix would be read even though the prefix is already stored locally in memory. (Bug #16569640) * InnoDB: When changing the shared tablespace file name using innodb_data_file_path and leaving the current log files in place, InnoDB would create a new tablespace file and overwrite the log files resulting in a mismatch between the data dictionary and tables on disk. This bug fix ensures that InnoDB does not create a new tablespace if there are inconsistent system tablespaces, undo tablespaces, or redo log files. (Bug #16418661) * InnoDB: Persistent stats would be disabled unnecessarily when running in read-only mode. When running in read-only mode, fetching stats from disk does not involve any modification of on-disk data except for when ANALYZE TABLE is run. This fix enables persistent stats for read-only mode. (Bug #16083211) * InnoDB: The documentation incorrectly stated that START TRANSACTION WITH CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT provides a consistent SNAPSHOT only works with REPEATABLE READ. All other isolation levels are ignored. The documentation has been revised and a warning is now generated whenever the WITH CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT clause is ignored. (Bug #14017206, Bug #65146) * InnoDB: The srv_master_thread background thread, which monitors server activity and performs activities such as page flushing when the server is inactive or in a shutdown state, runs on a one second delay loop. srv_master_thread would fail to check if the server is in a shutdown state before sleeping. (Bug #13417564, Bug #63276) * InnoDB: An infinite loop could occur in buf_page_get_gen when handling compressed-only pages. (Bug #12560151, Bug #61132) * Replication: When the --relay-log-info-file option was used together with --slave-parallel-workers set to a value greater than 1, mysqld failed to start. (Bug #17160671) * If the mysql_real_connect() C API function failed, it could leak memory. (Bug #17337684) * Savepoints could not be used successfully following an ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK error (or ER_LOCK_WAIT_TIMEOUT error, if innodb_rollback_on_timeout was enabled). (Bug #17356954) References: This bug is a regression of Bug #14188793. * Full-text search on InnoDB tables failed on searches that used the + boolean operator. (Bug #17280122) * For single-threaded workloads, the optimizer recognizes some special cases for which it can avoid function calls and enhance performance. (Bug #17234723) * SELECT * from performance_schema.events_statements_current could raise an assertion due to a race condition under load. (Bug #17164720) * AES_ENCRYPT() and AES_DECRYPT() failed to work correctly when MySQL was built with an AES_KEY_LENGTH value of 192 or 256. (Bug #17170207) * InnoDB full-text searches failed in databases whose names began with a digit. (Bug #17161372) * A successful connection failed to reset the per-IP address counter used to count successive connection failures. This could possibly cause a host to be blocked, when the max_connect_errors limit was reached. (Bug #17156507) * Under load, truncating the accounts Performance Schema table could cause a server exit. (Bug #17084615) * With the thread pool plugin enabled and SSL in use, an error in one connection might affect other connections, causing them to experience a lost connection. (Bug #17087862) * Within a stored program, comparison of the value of a scalar subquery with an IN clause resulted in an error for the first execution and raised an assertion for the second execution. (Bug #17029399) * A race condition in the thread pool plugin could cause status variables such as Aborted_connects not to be incremented and permitting concurrent kills to happen for the same thread ID. (Bug #16959022) * The my_strtoll10() function could incorrectly convert some long string-format numbers to numeric values and fail to set the overflow flag. (Bug #16997513) * Excessive memory consumption was observed for multiple execution of a stored procedure under these circumstances: 1) The stored procedure had an SQL statement that failed during validation. 2) The stored procedure had an SQL statement that required repreparation. (Bug #16857395) * For partitioned tables, queries could return different results depending on whether Index Merge was used. (Bug #16862316) * For some statements, memory leaks could result when the optimizer removed unneeded subquery clauses. (Bug #16807641) References: This bug is a regression of Bug #15875919. * Password rewriting in the general query log now also applies to prepared statements. (Bug #16732621) * Within a stored procedure, repeated execution of a prepared CREATE TABLE statement for a table with partitions could cause a server exit. (Bug #16614004) * For debug builds, when the optimizer removed an Item_ref pointing to a subquery, it caused a server exit. (Bug #16509874) References: This bug is a regression of Bug #16318585. * If the primary key for the mysql.proc system table was removed (an unsupported and not-recommended operation), the server exited for subsequent stored procedure invocation. Similar problems could occur for other system tables. Now an error occurs instead. (Bug #16373054) * Deadlocks involving metadata locks and InnoDB deadlocks were both reported as an ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK error, but only InnoDB deadlocks rolled back the transaction. Now both deadlocks roll back the transaction. (Bug #14188793) * Metadata returned for a prepared SELECT statement that had outer joins could indicate that columns containing NULL values were NOT NULL. (Bug #12818811) * For queries that accessed an INFORMATION_SCHEMA table in a subquery, and attempt to lock a mutex that had already been locked could cause a server crash. (Bug #11765744) * For failure to create a new thread for the event scheduler, event execution, or new connection, no message was written to the error log. This could lead to the impression that the event scheduler was running normally when it was not. (Bug #67191, Bug #14749800, Bug #16865959) * mysqldump wrote SET statements as SET OPTION, which failed when reloaded because the deprecated OPTION keyword has been removed from SET syntax. (Bug #67507, Bug #15844882) * For better robustness against stack overflow, the server now accounts for the size of the guard area when making thread stack size requests. (Bug #35019, Bug #11748074) * The libmysql.dll library was missing several symbols: my_init, mysql_client_find_plugin, mysql_client_register_plugin, mysql_load_plugin, mysql_load_plugin_v, mysql_options4, and mysql_plugin_options. (Bug #69204, Bug #16797982, Bug #62394) * If one connection changed its default database and simultaneously another connection executed SHOW PROCESSLIST, the second connection could access invalid memory when attempting to display the first connection's default database. memory. (Bug #58198, Bug #11765252) * Full-text search on InnoDB tables failed on searches for words containing apostrophes when using boolean operators. (Bug #69932, Bug #17276125) * InnoDB deadlock caused transaction rollback but did not release metadata locks, blocking concurrent DDL on the transaction tables until the connection that got the deadlock issued an explicit COMMIT or ROLLBACK. (Bug #69668, Bug #17054007) On Behalf of the MySQL/ORACLE RE Team, Sunanda Menon -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql
