Dear MySQL users,
MySQL Server 5.6.27, a new version of the popular Open Source
Database Management System, has been released. MySQL 5.6.27 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
For information on installing MySQL 5.6.27 on new servers or upgrading
to MySQL 5.6.27 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 5.6 since
the release of MySQL 5.6.26. It may also be viewed
online at
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-27.html
Enjoy!
Changes in MySQL 5.6.27 (2015-09-30):
Functionality Added or Changed
* InnoDB: The new innodb_numa_interleave read-only
configuration option allows you to enable the NUMA
interleave memory policy for allocation of the InnoDB
buffer pool. When innodb_numa_interleave is enabled, the
NUMA memory policy is set to MPOL_INTERLEAVE for the
mysqld process. After the InnoDB buffer pool is
allocated, the NUMA memory policy is set back to
MPOL_DEFAULT. This option is only available on
NUMA-enabled systems.
Thanks to Stewart Smith for the patch. (Bug #18871046,
Bug #72811)
* yaSSL was upgraded to version 2.3.8. (Bug #21888925)
* RPM .spec files were updated so that MySQL Server builds
from source RPM packages will include the proper files to
take advantage of operating system NUMA capabilities.
This introduces a runtime dependency on libnuma.so.1. RPM
and yum detect this and refuse to install if that library
is not installed. (Bug #21775221)
* yaSSL was upgraded to version 2.3.7d. This fixes a
connection-failure issue when used with the thread pool
plugin. (Bug #20774956)
Bugs Fixed
* InnoDB: Reloading a table that was evicted while empty
caused an AUTO_INCREMENT value to be reset. (Bug
#21454472, Bug #77743)
* InnoDB: Memory allocation sanity checks were added to the
memcached code. (Bug #21288106)
* InnoDB: A memcached flush_all command raised an
assertion. A function that starts a transaction was
called from within assertion code. (Bug #21239299, Bug
#75199)
* InnoDB: A data corruption occurred on ARM64. GCC builtins
did not issue the correct fences when setting or
unsetting the lock word. (Bug #21102971, Bug #76135)
* InnoDB: Server shutdown was delayed waiting for the purge
thread to exit. To avoid this problem, the number of
calls to trx_purge() was reduced, and the trx_purge()
batch size was reduced to 20. (Bug #21040050)
* InnoDB: In READ COMMITTED mode, a REPLACE operation on a
unique secondary index resulted in a constraint
violation. Thanks to Alexey Kopytov for the patch. (Bug
#21025880, Bug #76927)
* InnoDB: The IBUF_BITMAP_FREE bit indicated that there was
more free space in the leaf page than was actually
available. (Bug #20796566)
* InnoDB: Setting lower_case_table_names=0 on a
case-insensitive file system could result in a hang
condition when running an INSERT INTO ... SELECT ... FROM
tbl_name operation with the wrong tbl_name letter case.
An error message is now printed and the server exits when
attempting to start the server with
--lower_case_table_names=0 on a case-insensitive file
system. (Bug #20198490, Bug #75185)
* InnoDB: The server failed to start with an
innodb_force_recovery setting greater than 3. InnoDB was
set to read-only mode before redo logs were applied.
DROP TABLE is now supported with an innodb_force_recovery
setting greater than 3. (Bug #19779113)
* InnoDB: The trx_sys_read_pertable_file_format_id()
function reported the wrong file format. (Bug #19206671)
* Partitioning: CREATE TABLE statements that used an
invalid function in a subpartitioning expression did not
always fail gracefully as expected. (Bug #20310212)
* Partitioning: Error handling for failed
partitioning-related ALTER TABLE operations against
non-partitioned tables was not performed correctly (Bug
#20284744)
* Partitioning: ALTER TABLE when executed from a stored
procedure did not always work correctly with tables
partitioned by RANGE.