Dear MySQL users, MySQL 5.5.17 is a new version of the 5.5 production release of the world's most popular open source database. MySQL 5.5.17 is recommended for use on production systems.
MySQL 5.5 includes several high-impact enhancements to improve the performance and scalability of the MySQL Database, taking advantage of the latest multi-CPU and multi-core hardware and operating systems. In addition, with release 5.5, InnoDB is now the default storage engine for the MySQL Database, delivering ACID transactions, referential integrity and crash recovery by default. MySQL 5.5 also provides a number of additional enhancements including: - Significantly improved performance on Windows, with various Windows specific features and improvements - Higher availability, with new semi-synchronous replication and Replication Heart Beat - Improved usability, with Improved index and table partitioning, SIGNAL/RESIGNAL support and enhanced diagnostics, including a new Performance Schema monitoring capability. For a more complete look at what's new in MySQL 5.5, please see the following resources: MySQL 5.5 is GA, Interview with Tomas Ulin: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/interviews/thomas-ulin-mysql-55.html Documentation: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysql-nutshell.html Whitepaper: What's New in MySQL 5.5: http://dev.mysql.com/why-mysql/white-papers/mysql-wp-whatsnew-mysql-55.php If you are running a MySQL production level system, we would like to direct your attention to MySQL Enterprise Edition, which includes the most comprehensive set of MySQL production, backup, monitoring, modeling, development, and administration tools so businesses can achieve the highest levels of MySQL performance, security and uptime. http://mysql.com/products/enterprise/ For information on installing MySQL 5.5.17 on new servers, please see the MySQL installation documentation at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/installing.html For upgrading from previous MySQL releases, please see the important upgrade considerations at: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/upgrading.html MySQL Database 5.5.17 is available in source and binary form for a number of platforms from our download pages at: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ 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.: http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Contributing The following section lists the changes in the MySQL source code since the previous released version of MySQL 5.5. It may also be viewed online at: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-17.html Enjoy! Platform note: * Starting with MySQL 5.5.17, RPM packages for Enterprise Linux 6 (available from Oracle) are being built and published. In all conventions (naming, dependencies, build options), they do not differ from the RPM packages for SuSE and RedHat distributions, but they are built natively on Enterprise Linux. D.1.2. Changes in MySQL 5.5.17 (19 October 2011) Functionality Added or Changed * Replication: Previously, replication slaves could connect to the master server only through master accounts that use native authentication. Now replication slaves can also connect through master accounts that use nonnative authentication (except Windows native authentication) if the required client-side plugin is installed on the slave side in the directory named by the slave plugin_dir system variable. (Bug #12897501) * MEMORY table creation time is now available in the CREATE_TIME column of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES table and the Create_time column of SHOW TABLE STATUS output. (Bug #51655, Bug #11759349) Bugs Fixed * InnoDB Storage Engine: This fix improves the performance of instrumentation code for InnoDB buffer pool operations. (Bug #12950803, Bug #62294) * InnoDB Storage Engine: Data from BLOB columns could be lost if the server crashed at a precise moment when other columns were being updated in an InnoDB table. (Bug #12704861) * InnoDB Storage Engine: Lookups using secondary indexes could give incorrect matches under a specific set of conditions. The conditions involve an index defined on a column prefix, for a BLOB or other long column stored outside the index page, with a table using the Barracuda file format. (Bug #12601439) * InnoDB Storage Engine: This fix corrects cases where the MySQL server could hang or abort with a long semaphore wait message. (This is a different issue than when these symptoms occurred during a CHECK TABLE statement.) (Bug #11766591, Bug #59733) * Internal conversion of zero to binary and back could yield a result with incorrect precision. (Bug #12911710) * Valgrind warnings generated by filesort operations were fixed. (Bug #12856915) * mysqld_safe did not properly check for an already running instance of mysqld. (Bug #11878394) * The help message for mysql_install_db did not indicate that it supports the --defaults-file, --defaults-extra-file and --no-defaults options. (Bug #58898, Bug #11765888) * An assertion designed to detect zero-length sort keys also was raised when the entire key set fit in memory. (Bug #58200, Bug #11765254) * myisampack could create corrupt FULLTEXT indexes when compressing tables. (Bug #53646, Bug #11761180) * A linking problem prevented the FEDERATED storage engine plugin from loading. (Bug #40942, Bug #11750417) On behalf of the MySQL Build Team, Joerg Bruehe -- Joerg Bruehe, MySQL Build Team, joerg.bru...@oracle.com (+49 30) 417 01 487 ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG, Komturstrasse 18a, D-12099 Berlin Geschaeftsfuehrer: Juergen Kunz, Marcel v.d. Molen, Alexander v.d. Ven Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRA 95603 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org