MySQL Community Server 5.7.3 has been released (part 1/2)

2013-12-04 Thread Bjorn Munch
Dear MySQL users, MySQL Server 5.7.3 (Milestone Release) is a new version of the world's most popular open source database. This is the third public milestone release of MySQL 5.7. [Due to length restrictions, this announcement is split into two parts. This is part 1.]

MySQL Community Server 5.7.3 has been released (part 2/2)

2013-12-04 Thread Bjorn Munch
[ This is part 2 of the announcement ] Bugs Fixed * Incompatible Change: For logging to the general_log and slow_log tables in the mysql database, log lines containing multiple character sets were not always handled correctly. The general_log.argument and

5.1 to 5.6 upgrade: is it possible?

2013-12-04 Thread Ilya Kazakevich
Hello, Have anybody tried to upgrade 5.1 to 5.6? I believe running mysql_upgrade should be enough, but does there are some caveats? Ilya Kazakevich.

Re: 5.1 to 5.6 upgrade: is it possible?

2013-12-04 Thread Peter Brawley
On 2013-12-04 1:33 PM, Ilya Kazakevich wrote: Hello, Have anybody tried to upgrade 5.1 to 5.6? I believe running mysql_upgrade should be enough, but does there are some caveats? Ilya Kazakevich. The MySQL recommendation is to upgrade one major version at a time, ie 5.1-5.5-5.6. There are so

Re: 5.1 to 5.6 upgrade: is it possible?

2013-12-04 Thread Sabika Makhdoom
I would from 5.1.40 to 5.5.8 first and then to 5.6 On Dec 4, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Ilya Kazakevich kazakevichi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Have anybody tried to upgrade 5.1 to 5.6? I believe running mysql_upgrade should be enough, but does there are some caveats? Ilya Kazakevich. -- MySQL

Re: 5.1 to 5.6 upgrade: is it possible?

2013-12-04 Thread shawn l.green
Hello Sabika, On 12/4/2013 2:56 PM, Sabika Makhdoom wrote: I would from 5.1.40 to 5.5.8 first and then to 5.6 Why 5.5.8? Our current release is 5.5.35. 5.5.8 is an ancient release of 5.5 and represents the very first GA release of 5.5 . There have been 27 additional releases (each with