MySQL 5.4.1 Beta / 5.1.36

MySQL 5.4.1 Beta / 5.1.36 designed to be a perfect multi-user and robust SQL database server with high quality. MySQL is an attractive alternative to higher-cost, more complex database technology. Its award-winning speed, scalability and reliability make it the right choice for corporate IT departments, Web developers and packaged software vendors.

Enhancements:

• Important Change: Replication: Previously, incident log events were represented as comments in the output from mysqlbinlog, making them effectively silent when playing back the binlog
• An incident log event represents an incident that could cause the contents of the database to change without that event being recorded in the binary log.)
• This meant that, if the SQL were applied to a server, it could potentially lead to the master and the slave having different data. To make it possible to handle incident log events without breaking applications that expect the previous behavior, the nonsense statement RELOAD DATABASE is added to the SQL output for that incident log event, which causes an error
• To use this functionality currently requires hand editing of the dump file and handling of each case on an individual basis by a database administrator before applying the output to a server. (Bug#44442)
• mysql_upgrade now displays a message indicating the connection parameters it uses when i...