MySQL 5.7.5 was recently released (it is the latest MySQL 5.7, and is the “m15″ or “Milestone 15″ release), and is available for download here and here.
As for the fixes/changes, there are quite a few (the official release was split into 3 separate emails), which is expected in such an early milestone release.
The main highlights for me were (though the enhancements, and potentially impactful changes, are definitely not limited to this list):
- InnoDB: The innodb_buffer_pool_size parameter is now dynamic, allowing you to resize the buffer pool without restarting the server. The resizing operation, which involves moving pages to a new location in memory, is performed chunks. Chunk size is configurable using the new …