Oracle has released the Critical Patch Update (CPU) for July
2014. The Oracle MySQL Risk Matrix lists 10 security
fixes.
It took me some time to understand the subcomponent names. So
here is the list with the full name of each subcomponent:
Subcomponent | Full name |
SRFTS | Server: Full Text Search |
SRINFOSC | Server: INFORMATION_SCHEMA |
SRCHAR | Server: Character sets |
ENARC | Engine: Archive |
SROPTZR | Server: Optimizer |
SRREP | Server: Replication |
SRSP | Server: Stored Procecure |
ENFED | Engine: Federated |
I don't think there is anything really important in the list, but
it might be a good trigger to update to the latest release.
Upgrading should be easy especially if you're using the APT or YUM repositories from Oracle. If you're
upgrading to a new major release (e.g. from 5.5 to 5.6) then you
should read the instructions in the reference manual.