Hi!
MySQL 4.0.1 is now released. I would like to start by saying that the MySQL 4.0.0-alpha release has worked very well and we haven't (yet) found any really fatal bugs in it. Our intention is to continue with development on the 4.0 series for a couple of more weeks and then shift to work on 4.1 to let the 4.0 code quickly stabilize. 4.0.1 includes some major new features compared to 4.0.0: - A Query cache to cache results for SELECT statements. This should give a major speed improvement for queries on read-intensive tables. More information can be found at: http://www.mysql.com/doc/Q/u/Query_Cache.html - Better and faster fulltext search. http://www.mysql.com/doc/F/u/Fulltext_Search.html - Extended UNION to handle braces Here follows the ChangeLog for 4.0.1 * Fixed bug when `HANDLER' was used with some unsupported table type. * `mysqldump' now puts `ALTER TABLE table_name DISABLE KEYS' and `ALTER TABLE table_name DISABLE KEYS' in the sql dump. * Added `mysql_fix_extensions' script * Fixed stack overrun problem `LOAD DATA FROM MASTER' on OSF1. * Fixed shutdown problem on HPUX. * Added functions `des_encrypt()' and `des_decrypt()'. * Added statement FLUSH DES_KEY_FILE. * Added mysqld option `--des-key-file'. * `HEX(string)' now returns the characters in string converted to hexadecimal. * Fixed problem with `GRANT' when using `lower_case_table_names == 1'. * Changed `SELECT ... IN SHARE MODE' to `SELECT .. LOCK IN SHARE MODE' (as in MySQL 3.23). * A new query cache to cache results from identical `SELECT' queries. * Fixed core dump bug on 64 bit machines when it got a wrong communication packet. * `MATCH ... AGAINST(... IN BOOLEAN MODE)' can now work without `FULLTEXT' index. * Fixed slave to replicate from 3.23 master. * Miscellaneous replication fixes/cleanup. * Got shutdown to work on Mac OS X. * Added `myisam/ft_dump' utility for low-level inspection of `FULLTEXT' indexes. * Fixed bug in `DELETE ... WHERE ... MATCH ...'. * Added support for `MATCH ... AGAINST(... IN BOOLEAN MODE)'. *Note: you have to rebuild your tables with `ALTER TABLE tablename TYPE=MyISAM' to be able to use boolean fulltext search*. * `LOCATE()' and `INSTR()' are case sensitive if neither argument is a binary string. * Changed `RND()' initialization so that `RND(N)' and `RND(N+1)' are more distinct. * Fixed core dump bug in `UPDATE ... ORDER BY'. * Changed `INSERT INTO .. SELECT' to stop on errors by default. * Ignore `DATA DIRECTORY' and `INDEX DIRECTORY' directives on Windows. * Added boolean fulltext search code. It should be considered early alpha. * Extended `MODIFY' and `CHANGE' in `ALTER TABLE' to accept the `AFTER' keyword. * Index are now used with `ORDER' BY on a whole InnoDB table. All bugs and features that has been done up to 3.23.46 + some from the upcoming 3.23.47 are also done in the 4.0.1 release. Some of the Bug fixes from the 3.23 series, that has found it's way to 4.0: * InnoDB now supports `NULL' in keys. * Fixed shutdown problem on HPUX. (Introduced in 3.23.46) * Added 'DO expression' command. * Fixed core-dump bug in replication when using SELECT RELEASE_LOCK(); * Added new statement DO expression,[expression]. * Added `slave-skip-errors' option * Added statistics variables for all MySQL commands. (`SHOW STATUS' is now much longer). * Fixed default values for InnoDB tables. * Fixed that `GROUP BY expr DESC' works. * Fixed bug when using `t1 LEFT JOIN t2 ON t2.key=constant'. * `mysql_config' now also work with binary (relocated) distributions. * Fixed problem with aliased temporary tables replication * InnoDB and BDB tables will now use index when doing an `ORDER BY' on the whole table. * Fixed bug where one got an empty set instead of a DEADLOCK error when using BDB tables. * One can now kill `ANALYZE',`REPAIR' and `OPTIMIZE TABLE' when the thread is waiting to get a lock on the table. * Fixed race condition in `ANALYZE TABLE'. * Fixed bug when joining with caching (unlikely to happen). * Fixed race condition when using the binary log and `INSERT DELAYED' which could cause the binary log to have rows that was not yet written to MyISAM tables. * Changed caching of binary log to make replication slightly faster. * Fixed bug in replication on Mac OS X. Last I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a bug free new year! Regards, Monty -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Mr. Michael Widenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ MySQL AB, CTO /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ Helsinki, Finland <___/ www.mysql.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
