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MySQL 5.5.44 Overview and Highlights

MySQL 5.5.44 was recently released (it is the latest MySQL 5.5, is GA), and is available for download here:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.5.html

This release, similar to the last 5.5 release, is mostly uneventful.

There were 0 “Functionality Added or Changed” items this time, and just 15 overall bugs fixed.

Out of the 15 bugs, there were 5 InnoDB bugs (1 of which also spans partitioning), 1 security-related bug, 1 performance-related, and 3 additional potential crashing bugs. Here are the ones worth noting:

  • InnoDB: An assertion was raised on shutdown due to XA PREPARE transactions holding explicit locks.
  • InnoDB: Removal of a foreign key object from the data dictionary cache during error handling caused the server to exit.
  • InnoDB: SHOW ENGINE …
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MySQL 5.6.24 Overview and Highlights

MySQL 5.6.24 was recently released (it is the latest MySQL 5.6, is GA), and is available for download here.

For this release, there are 4 “Functionality Added or Changed” items:

  • Functionality Added/Changed: CMake support was updated to handle CMake version 3.1.
  • Functionality Added/Changed: The server now includes its version number when it writes the initial “starting” message to the error log, to make it easier to tell which server instance error log output applies to. This value is the same as that available from the version system variable. (Bug #74917)
  • Functionality Added/Changed: ALTER TABLE did not take advantage of fast alterations that might otherwise apply to the operation to …
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MySQL 5.5.43 Overview and Highlights

MySQL 5.5.43 was recently released (it is the latest MySQL 5.5, is GA), and is available for download here:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.5.html

This release, similar to the last 5.5 release, is mostly uneventful.

There were only 2 “Functionality Added or Changed” items this time, and 10 additional bugs fixed.

Out of the 10 bugs, there was 1 InnoDB bug, 1 replication bug, and 6 crashing bugs, all of which seemed rather minor or obscure. Here are the ones worth noting:

  • Functionality Changed: CMake support was updated to handle CMake version 3.1.
  • Functionality Added: The server now includes its version number when it writes the initial “starting” message to the error log, to make it easier to tell which server instance error log output applies to. This value is the …
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