This is great from my point of view, since the 4.1.x major release is the first one to be truly useable for my needs. It is the first to have support for subqueries, server-side prepared statements, and Unicode text, plus better compound queries.
Details of the point release (since 4.1.6) are below, as originally announced.
-- Darren Duncan
P.S. In other news, SQLite 3.x was declared stable a month ago, and is currently at version 3.0.8, in case this list's membership wasn't previously aware. If you are using SQLite, you definitely want to upgrade to it from 2.x.
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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:34:49 -0500 Subject: MySQL 4.1.7 has been released From: Matt Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
MySQL 4.1.7, a new version of the popular Open Source/Free Software Database Management System has been released. It is now available in source and binary form for a number of platforms from our download pages at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ and mirror sites.
Note that not all mirror sites may be up-to-date at this point. If you cannot find this version on a particular mirror, please try again later or choose another download site.
This is the first 4.1 production release.
Please refer to our bugs database at http://bugs.mysql.com/ for more details about the individual bugs fixed in this version.
News from the ChangeLog:
Changes in release 4.1.7
Functionality added or changed:
* InnoDB: Made LOCK TABLES behave by default like it did before
MySQL 4.0.20 or 4.1.2: no InnoDB lock will be taken. Added a
startup option and settable system variable innodb_table_locks for
making LOCK TABLE acquire also InnoDB locks. See section
"Restrictions on InnoDB Tables" in the manual.
(Bug #3299, Bug #5998) Bugs fixed:
* Fixed a bug with FOUND_ROWS() used together with LIMIT clause in
prepared statements. (Bug #6088)
* Fixed a bug with NATURAL JOIN in prepared statements. (Bug #6046).
* Fixed a bug in join of tables from different databases having
columns with identical names (prepared statements). (Bug #6050)
* Now implicit access to system time zone description tables (which
happens when you set time_zone variable or use CONVERT_TZ()
function) does not require any privileges. (Bug #6116)
* Fixed a bug which caused the server to crash when the deprecated
libmysqlclient function mysql_create_db() was called. (Bug #6081)
* Fixed REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES, GRANT OPTION FROM user so that all
privileges are revoked correctly. (Bug #5831). This corrects a
case that the fix in 4.1.6 could miss.
* Fixed a bug that could cause MyISAM index corruption when key
values start with character codes below BLANK. This was caused by
the new key sort order in 4.1. (Bug #6151)
* Fixed a bug in the prepared statements protocol when wrong
metadata was sent for SELECT statements not returning a result set
(such as SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE). (Bug #6059)
* Fixed bug which allowed one to circumvent missing UPDATE privilege
if one had INSERT and SELECT privileges for table with primary key.
(Bug #6173)
* Fixed a bug in libmysqlclient with wrong conversion of negative
time values to strings. (Bug #6049).
* Fixed a bug in libmysqlclient with wrong conversion of zero date
values (0000-00-00) to strings. (Bug #6058)
* Fixed a bug that caused the server to crash on attempt to prepare
a statement with RAND(?). (Bug #5985)
* Fixed a bug with handling of DATE, TIME, and DATETIME columns in
the binary protocol. The problem is compiler-specific and could
have been observed on HP-UX, AIX, Solaris9, when compiling with
native compiler. (Bug #6025)
* Fixed a bug with handling of TINYINT columns in the binary
protocol. The problem is specific to platforms where the C
compiler has the char data type unsigned by default. (Bug #6024)
* Fixed problem introduced in MySQL 4.0.21 where a connection
starting a transaction, doing updates, then FLUSH TABLES WITH READ
LOCK, then COMMIT, would cause replication slaves to stop
complaining about error 1223. Bug surfaced when using the InnoDB
innobackup script. (Bug #5949)Enjoy!
Matt
-- Matt Wagner, Production Engineer MySQL AB, www.mysql.com Northfield, MN, USA
