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Joao --

...and then Joćo Borsoi said...
% 
% I working in a project to be released 6 months from now. We are
% currently using mysql 3.23.49 with Innodb. I'm thinking about upgrading
% it to mysql 4.0.5a because of some deadlock bugs. What is the risk of
% going to a development version? Is it stable? 

A development version is never "stable", but the mysql folks tend to be
pretty good about their releases.  To quote the manual from 4.0.6-gamma:

    2.2.3 Which MySQL Version to Use
  
     The MySQL naming scheme uses release numbers that consist of three
     numbers and a suffix. For example, a release name like
     mysql-3.21.17-beta is interpreted like this:
  ...
       * The suffix (beta) indicates the stability level of the release.
         The possible suffixes are:
            + alpha indicates that the release contains some large section
              of new code that hasn't been 100% tested. Known bugs (usually
  ...
              release. There should be no known bugs in any MySQL release.
            + beta means that all new code has been tested. No major new
  ...
            + gamma is a beta that has been around a while and seems to
              work fine. Only minor fixes are added. This is what many
              other companies call a release.
            + If there is no suffix, it means that the version has been run
              for a while at many different sites with no reports of bugs
              other than platform-specific bugs. Only critical bug fixes
              are applied to the release. This is what we call a stable
              release.

Since the development branch is at 4.0.6-gamma, it's pretty stable.  You
might also check out section 1.2.3 "How Stable is MySQL?".


% 
% Thanks,
% Joao.


HTH & HAND

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