MySQL 5.6.16 was recently released (it is the latest MySQL 5.6, is GA), and is available for download here:
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.6.html
As opposed to the latest 5.5 release, this latest 5.6 release has quite a few more bug fixes, but that’s expected since 5.5 has been GA for much longer.
There were 2 minor functionality changes:
- Previously, ALTER TABLE in MySQL 5.6 could alter a table such that the result had temporal columns in both 5.5 and 5.6 format. Now ALTER TABLE upgrades old temporal columns to 5.6 format for ADD COLUMN, CHANGE COLUMN, MODIFY COLUMN, ADD INDEX, and FORCE operations. This conversion cannot be done using the INPLACE algorithm, so specifying ALGORITHM=INPLACE in these cases results in an error. (Bug #17246318)
- CMake now supports a -DTMPDIR=dir_name option to specify the default …