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 …