MySQL Community Server 5.5.9 has been released

MySQL Community Server 5.5.9 has been released

am 08.02.2011 06:12:53 von Hery Ramilison

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL 5.5.9 is a new version of the 5.5 production version of the
world's most popular open source database. MySQL 5.5.9 is recommended
for use on production systems.

MySQL 5.5 includes several high-impact changes to address scalability
and performance issues in MySQL Server. These changes exploit advances
in hardware and CPU design and enable better utilization of existing
hardware. MySQL 5.5 also provides a number of other new enhancements,
including:

- InnoDB I/O Subsystem Changes
- Enhanced Solaris Support
- Diagnostic and Monitoring Capabilities

For a more complete look at what's new in MySQL 5.5, please see

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysql-nutshell.html

If you are running a MySQL production level system, we would like to
direct your attention to the product description of MySQL Enterprise at:

http://mysql.com/products/enterprise/

For information on installing MySQL 5.5.9 on new servers, please see the
MySQL installation documentation at

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/installing.html

For upgrading from previous MySQL releases, please see the important
upgrade considerations at:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/upgrading.html

MySQL Server 5.5 is available in source and binary form for a number of
platforms from our download pages at:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/

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

The following section lists the changes in the MySQL source code since
the previous released version of MySQL 5.5. It may also be viewed
online at:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-9.html

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D.1.2. Changes in MySQL 5.5.9

Configuration Notes:

* MySQL releases are now built on all platforms using CMake
rather than the GNU autotools, so autotools support has been
removed. For instructions on building MySQL with CMake, see
Section 2.11, "Installing MySQL from Source." Third-party
tools that need to extract the MySQL version number formerly
found in configure.in can use the VERSION file. See Section
2.11.6, "MySQL Configuration and Third-Party Tools."

Functionality added or changed:

* The mysqladmin and mysqldump clients now have --default-auth
and --plugin-dir options for specifying which authentication
plugin and plugin directory to use.
(Bug#58139: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58139)

* sql_priv.h now includes an OPTION_ALLOW_BATCH flag for the
transaction_allow_batching
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/server-system-variab le
s.html#sysvar_transaction_allow_batching) feature of MySQL
Cluster. (Bug#57604: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=57604)

* Boolean system variables can be enabled at run time by setting
them to the value ON or OFF, but previously this did not work
at server startup. Now at startup such variables can be
enabled by setting them to ON or TRUE. Any other nonnumeric
variable is interpreted as OFF.
(Bug#46393: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=46393 improves on
this such that ON, TRUE, OFF, and FALSE are recognized, and
other values are invalid.)
(Bug#51631: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=51631)

Bugs fixed:

* Incompatible Change: When auto_increment_increment is greater
than one, values generated by a bulk insert that reaches the
maximum column value could wrap around rather producing an
overflow error.
As a consequence of the fix, it is no longer possible for an
auto-generated value to be equal to the maximum BIGINT
UNSIGNED value. It is still possible to store that value
manually, if the column can accept it.
(Bug#39828: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=39828)

* Important Change: Partitioning: Date and time functions used
as partitioning functions now have the types of their operands
checked; use of a value of the wrong type is now disallowed in
such cases. In addition, EXTRACT(WEEK FROM col), where col is
a DATE or DATETIME column, is now disallowed altogether
because its return value depends on the value of the
default_week_format system variable.
(Bug#54483: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=54483)
See also Bug#57071: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=57071.

* Partitioning: InnoDB Storage Engine: The partitioning handler
did not pass locking information to a table's storage engine
handler. This caused high contention and thus slower
performance when working with partitioned InnoDB tables.
(Bug#59013: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=59013)

* InnoDB Storage Engine: When multiple InnoDB buffer pools were
enabled, SHOW ENGINE INNODB commands displayed information
about each one, but not summary information combining
statistics for the entire buffer pool subsystem. Now, the
aggregated information is displayed in the BUFFER POOL AND
MEMORY section, and information about individual buffer pool
instances is displayed in a new INDIVIDUAL BUFFER POOL INFO
section. (Bug#58461: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58461)

* InnoDB Storage Engine: The command to create a debug build
(cmake -DWITH_DEBUG ...) now automatically sets the InnoDB
debugging flag UNIV_DEBUG on all platforms. Formerly, the
UNIV_DEBUG flag might not be set for Windows platforms with
Visual Studio and not on OS X with Xcode.
(Bug#58279: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58279)

* InnoDB Storage Engine: In InnoDB status output, the value for
I/O sum[] could be incorrect, displayed as a very large
number. (Bug#57600: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=57600)

* InnoDB Storage Engine: It was not possible to query the
information_schema.innodb_trx table while other connections
were running queries involving BLOB types.
(Bug#55397: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=55397)

* InnoDB Storage Engine: When the lowercase_system_names
variable was set to 2, InnoDB could fail to restore a
mysqldump dump of a table with foreign key constraints
involving case-sensitive names.
(Bug#55222: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=55222)

* InnoDB Storage Engine: The OPTIMIZE TABLE statement would
reset the auto-increment counter for an InnoDB table. Now the
auto-increment value is preserved across this operation.
(Bug#18274: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=18274)

* Partitioning: A failed ALTER TABLE ... TRUNCATE PARTITION
statement was still written to the binary log.
(Bug#58147: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58147)

* Partitioning: Failed ALTER TABLE ... PARTITION statements
could cause memory leaks.
(Bug#56380: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=56380)
See also Bug#46949: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=46949,
Bug#56996: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=56996.

* Replication: While an INSERT DELAYED statement with a single
inserted value does not return any visible warnings, such a
warning could be still written into the error log.
(Bug#57666: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=57666)
See also Bug#49567: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=49567.

* Replication: When closing a session that used temporary
tables, binary logging could sometimes fail with a spurious
Failed to write the DROP statement for temporary tables to
binary log.
(Bug#57288: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=57288)

* Replication: Due to changes made in MySQL 5.5.3, settings made
in the binlog_cache_size and max_binlog_cache_size server
system variables affected both the binary log statement cache
(also introduced in that version) and the binary log
transactional cache (formerly known simply as the binary log
cache). This meant that the resources used as a result of
setting either or both of these variables were double the
amount expected. To rectify this problem, these variables now
affect only the transactional cache. The fix for this issue
also introduces two new system variables
binlog_stmt_cache_size and max_binlog_stmt_cache_size, which
affect only the binary log statement cache.
In addition, the Binlog_cache_use status variable was
incremented whenever either cache was used, and
Binlog_cache_disk_use was incremented whenever the disk space
from either cache was used, which caused problems with
performance tuning of the statement and transactional caches,
because it was not possible to determine which of these was
being exceeded when attempting to troubleshoot excessive disk
seeks and related problems. This issue is solved by changing
the behavior of these two status variables such that they are
incremented only in response to usage of the binary log
transactional cache, as well as by introducing two new status
variables Binlog_stmt_cache_use and
Binlog_stmt_cache_disk_use, which are incremented only by
usage of the binary log statement cache.
For more information, see Section 17.1.3.4, "System variables
used with the binary log," and Section 5.1.6, "Server Status
Variables."
(Bug#57275: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=57275)

* Replication: By default, a value is generated for an
AUTO_INCREMENT column by inserting either NULL or 0 into the
column. Setting the NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO server SQL mode
suppresses this behavior for 0, so that it occurs only when
NULL is inserted into the column.
This behavior is also followed on a replication slave (by the
slave SQL thread) when applying events that have been logged
on the master using the statement-based format. However, when
applying events that had been logged using the row-based
format, NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO was ignored, which could lead to
an assertion.
To fix this issue, the value of an AUTO_INCREMENT column is no
longer generated when applying an event that was logged using
the row-based row format, as this value is already contained
in the changes applied on the slave.
(Bug#56662: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=56662)

* Replication: The Binlog_cache_use and Binlog_cache_disk_use
status variables were incremented twice by a change to a table
using a transactional storage engine.
(Bug#56343: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=56343)

* Replication: The BINLOG statement modified the values of
session variables, which could lead to problems with
operations such a point-in-time recovery. One such case
occurred when replaying a row-based binary log which relied on
setting foreign_key_checks = OFF on the session level in order
to create and populate a set of InnoDB tables having foreign
key constraints.
(Bug#54903: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=54903)

* Replication: mysqlbinlog printed USE statements to its output
only when the default database changed between events. To
illustrate how this could cause problems, suppose that a user
issued the following sequence of statements:
CREATE DATABASE mydb;
USE mydb;
CREATE TABLE mytable (column_definitions);
DROP DATABASE mydb;
CREATE DATABASE mydb;
USE mydb;
CREATE TABLE mytable (column_definitions);
When played back using mysqlbinlog, the second CREATE TABLE
statement failed with Error: No Database Selected because the
second USE statement was not played back, due to the fact that
a database other than mydb was never selected.
This fix insures that mysqlbinlog outputs a USE statement
whenever it reads one from the binary log.
(Bug#50914: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=50914)

* Replication: Previously, when a statement failed with a
different error on the slave than on the master, the slave SQL
thread displayed a message containing:

+ The error message for the master error code

+ The master error code

+ The error message for the slaves error code

+ The slave error code
However, the slave has no information with which to fill in
any print format specifiers for the master message, so it
actually displayed the message format string. To make it
clearer that the slave is not displaying the actual message as
it appears on the master, the slave now indicates that the
master part of the output is the message format, not the
actual message. For example, previously the slave displayed
information like this:
Error: "Query caused different errors on master and slave.
Error on master: 'Duplicate entry '%-.192s' for key %d'
(1062), Error on slave: 'no error' (0). Default database:
'test'. Query: 'insert into t1 values(1),(2)'" (expected
different error codes on master and slave)
Now the slave displays this:
Error: "Query caused different errors on master and slave.
Error on master: message format='Duplicate entry '%-.192s' for
key %d' error code=1062 ; Error on slave: actual message='no
error', error code=0. Default database: 'test'. Query: 'insert
into t1 values(1),(2)'" (expected different error codes on
master and slave)
(Bug#46697: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=46697)

* Replication: When an error occurred in the generation of the
name for a new binary log file, the error was logged but not
shown to the user.
(Bug#46166: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=46166)
See also Bug#37148: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=37148,
Bug#40611: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=40611,
Bug#43929: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=43929,
Bug#51019: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=51019.

* Comparisons of aggregate values with TIMESTAMP values were
incorrect. (Bug#59330: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=59330)

* For DIV expressions, assignment of the result to multiple
variables could cause a server crash.
(Bug#59241: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=59241)
See also Bug#8457: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=8457.

* MIN(year_col) could return an incorrect result in some cases.
(Bug#59211: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=59211)

* mysqlslap failed to check for a NULL return from
mysql_store_result() and crashed trying to process the result
set. (Bug#59109: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=59109)

* In a subquery, a UNION with no referenced tables (or only a
reference to the virtual table dual) did not allow an ORDER BY
clause. (Bug#58970: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58970)

* Configuring MySQL with -DWITHOUT_PERFSCHEMA_STORAGE_ENGINE=1
caused build failures.
(Bug#58953: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58953)

* Several Valgrind warnings were fixed.
(Bug#58948: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58948,
Bug#59021: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=59021)

* OPTIMIZE TABLE for an InnoDB table could raise an assertion if
the operation failed because it had been killed.
(Bug#58933: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58933)

* If max_allowed_packet was set larger than 16MB, the server
failed to reject too-large packets with "Packet too large"
errors. (Bug#58887: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58887)

* A NOT IN predicate with a subquery containing a HAVING clause
could retrieve too many rows, when the subquery itself
returned NULL.
(Bug#58818: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58818)

* EXPLAIN could crash for queries that accessed two derived
tables. (Bug#58730: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58730)

* On Solaris, the MySQL build failed if it was configured with
debugging enabled.
(Bug#58699: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58699)

* Issuing EXPLAIN EXTENDED for a query that would use condition
pushdown could cause mysqld to crash.
(Bug#58553: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58553)

* An assertion could be raised for queries for which the
optimizer could choose between Index Merge range access or
const ref access methods.
(Bug#58456: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58456)

* If MySQL was built with Visual Studio Express, the project
wixca was not built.
(Bug#58411: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58411)

* EXPLAIN could crash for queries that used GROUP_CONCAT().
(Bug#58396: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58396)

* CMake polluted the source tree by writing installation-related
temporary files there.
(Bug#58372: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58372)

* Security context references in sp_head.cc were rewritten for
improved DTrace compatibility.
(Bug#58350: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58350)

* The ucs2 character set does not support characters outside the
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), but converting a string
containing such characters did not produce a
conversion-failure warning.
(Bug#58321: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58321)

* A Valgrind failure occurred in fn_format when called from
archive_discover.
(Bug#58205: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58205)

* CMake did not add LINK_LIBRARIES for MYSQL_ADD_PLUGIN for
libmysqld. (Bug#58158: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58158)

* An assertion could be raised if the server was closing a
session at the same time the session was being killed by
another thread.
(Bug#58136: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58136)

* Condition pushdown optimization could push down conditions
with incorrect column references.
(Bug#58134: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58134)

* Configuration with maintainer mode enabled resulted in errors
when compiling with icc.
(Bug#57991: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=57991,
Bug#58871: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=58871)

* An ORDER BY clause was bound to the incorrect substatement
when used in UNION context.
(Bug#57986: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=57986)

* The BIT_AND() function could return incorrect results when a
join returned no matching rows.
(Bug#57954: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=57954)

* If the set of values aggregated with AVG(DISTINCT) contained a
NULL value, the function result could be incorrect.
(Bug#57932: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=57932)

* In rare cases, LIKE expressions failed for an indexed column
that used a collation containing contractions.
(Bug#57737: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=57737)

* Unnecessary subquery evaluation in contexts such as statement
preparation or view creation could cause a server crash.
(Bug#57703: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=57703)

* View creation could produce Valgrind warnings.
(Bug#57352: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=57352)

* NULL geometry values could cause a crash in
Item_func_spatial_collection::fix_length_and_dec.
(Bug#57321: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=57321)

* It was possible to compile mysqld with Performance Schema
support but with a dummy atomic-operations implementation,
which caused a server crash. This problem does not affect
binary distributions. It is helpful as a safety measure for
users who build MySQL from source.
(Bug#56769: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=56769)

* The cp1251 character set did not properly support the Euro
sign (0x88). For example, converting a string containing this
character to utf8 resulted in '?' rather than the utf8 Euro
sign. (Bug#56639: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=56639)

* Some unsigned system variables could be displayed with
negative values.
(Bug#55794: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=55794)

* CREATE DATABASE and DROP DATABASE caused mysql --one-database
to lose track of the statement-filtering context.
(Bug#54899: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=54899)

* An assertion could be raised during concurrent execution of
DROP DATABASE and REPAIR TABLE if the drop deleted a table's
.TMD file at the same time the repair tried to read details
from the old file that was just removed.
A problem could also occur when DROP TABLE tried to remove all
files belonging to a table at the same time REPAIR TABLE had
just deleted the table's .TMD file.
(Bug#54486: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=54486)

* After compilation from source, all header files were installed
in the same directory, even those that should be installed
into subdirectories of the installation include directory.
(Bug#51925: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=51925)

* When mysqld printed crash dump information, it incorrectly
indicated that some valid pointers were invalid.
(Bug#51817: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=51817)

* On Mac OS X, a configuration error caused the preference pane
to fail. (Bug#51264: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=51264)

* On FreeBSD, if mysqld was killed with a SIGHUP signal, it
could corrupt InnoDB .ibd files.
(Bug#51023: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=51023)

* An assertion could be raised if -1 was inserted into an
AUTO_INCREMENT column by a statement writing more than one
row. (Bug#50619: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=50619)

* If a client supplied a user name longer than the maximum 16
characters allowed for names stored in the MySQL grant tables,
all characters were being considered significant.
Historically, only the first 16 characters were used to check
for a match; this behavior was restored.
(Bug#49752: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=49752)

* The my_seek() and my_tell() functions ignored the MY_WME flag
when they returned an error, which could cause client programs
to hang. (Bug#48451: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=48451)

* During assignment of values to system variables, legality
checks on the value range occurred too late, preventing proper
error checking.
(Bug#43233: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=43233)

* On Solaris, time-related functions such as NOW() or SYSDATE()
could return a constant value.
(Bug#42054: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=42054)

* If the remote server for a FEDERATED table could not be
accessed, queries for the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES table
failed. (Bug#35333: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=35333)

Enjoy!

On behalf of the MySQL Build Team,
Hery Ramilison


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