Added patches for MIT-pthreads on NetBSD.

Fixed range bug in MyISAM.

ASC is now the default again for ORDER BY.

Added LIMIT to UPDATE.

Added mysql_change_user() function to the MySQL C API.

Added character set to SHOW VARIABLES.

Added support of --[whitespace] comments.

Allow INSERT into tbl_name VALUES (), that is, you may now specify an empty value list to insert a row in which each column is set to its default value.

Changed SUBSTRING(text FROM pos) to conform to SQL-99. (Before this construct returned the rightmost pos characters.)

SUM() with GROUP BY returned 0 on some systems.

Changed output for SHOW TABLE STATUS.

Added DELAY_KEY_WRITE option to CREATE TABLE.

Allow AUTO_INCREMENT on any key part.

Fixed problem with YEAR(NOW()) and YEAR(CURDATE()).

Added CASE construct.

New function COALESCE().