RFE: MySQL 5.0.89 Upstream Source Update

[BJ Dierkes]

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Community Server 5.0.89, a new version of the popular Open Source
Database Management System, has been released. This Community release
shares the
version number with its MySQL Enterprise Server counterpart. Please note
this is
the last release of 5.0 before it exits active maintenance.

The release 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 in time, so if you can't find this version on some mirror,
please try again later or choose another download site.

We welcome and appreciate your feedback, bug reports, bug fixes,
patches etc.:

http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Contributing

This section documents all changes and bugfixes that have been
applied since the last MySQL Community Server release (5.0.88).

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/news-5-0-89.html

If you would like to receive more fine-grained and personalized
update alerts about fixes that are relevant to the version and
features you use, please consider subscribing to MySQL Enterprise
(a commercial MySQL offering). For more details please see
http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/advisors.html.

Enjoy!

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C.1.1. Changes in MySQL 5.0.89

Bugs fixed:

  * Privileges for stored routines were ignored for mixed-case
    routine names.
    (Bug#48872: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=48872)
    See also Bug#41049: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=41049.

  * Building MySQL on Fedora Core 12 64-bit would fail due to errors in
    comp_err. (Bug#48864: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=48864)

  * DISTINCT was ignored for queries with GROUP BY WITH ROLLUP and
    only const tables.
    (Bug#48475: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=48475)

  * Loose index scan was inappropriately chosen for some WHERE
    conditions.
    (Bug#48472: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=48472)

  * A bad typecast could cause query execution to allocate large
    amounts of memory.
    (Bug#48458: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=48458)

  * When running mysql_secure_installation, the command would fail
    if the root password contained multiple spaces, \, # or quote
    characters.
    (Bug#48031: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=48031)

  * Output from mysql --html did not encode the <, >, or &
    characters.
    (Bug#27884: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=27884)

Thanks,
MySQL RE Team

Hery Ramilison, Karen Langford, MySQL Release Engineers
Database Group, Sun Microsystem Inc.

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[BJ Dierkes (derks)]

This has been pushed to ius-el5, ius-el4 stable.