Added option --log-error[=file_name] to mysqld_safe and mysqld. This option will force all error messages to be put in a log file if the option --console is not given. On Windows --log-error is enabled as default, with a default name of host_name.err if the name is not specified.

Changed some things from Warning: to Note: in the log files.

The mysqld server should now compile on NetWare.

Added optimization that if one does GROUP BY ... ORDER BY NULL then result is not sorted.

New --ft-stopword-file command-line option for mysqld to replace/disable the built-in stopword list that is used in full-text searches. See 項4.6.8.4. 「SHOW VARIABLES」.

Changed default stack size from 64K to 192K; This fixes a core dump problem on Red Hat 8.0 and other systems with a glibc that requires a stack size larger than 128K for gethostbyaddr() to resolve a hostname. You can fix this for earlier MySQL versions by starting mysqld with --thread-stack=192K.

Added mysql_waitpid to the binary distribution and the MySQL-client RPM subpackage (required for mysql-test-run).

Renamed the main MySQL RPM package to MySQL-server. When updating from an older version, MySQL-server.rpm will simply replace MySQL.rpm.

If a slave is configured with replicate_wild_do_table=db.% or replicate_wild_ignore_table=db.%, these rules will be applied to CREATE/DROP DATABASE, too.

Added timeout value for MASTER_POS_WAIT().

Fixed initialization of the random seed for newly created threads to give a better rand() distribution from the first call.

Fixed a bug that caused mysqld to hang when a table was opened with the HANDLER command and then dropped without being closed.

Fixed bug in logging to binary log (which affects replication) a query that inserts a NULL in an AUTO_INCREMENT column and also uses LAST_INSERT_ID().

Fixed an unlikely bug that could cause a memory overrun when using ORDER BY constant_expression.

Fixed a table corruption in myisamchk's parallel repair mode.

Fixed bug in query cache invalidation on simple table renaming.

Fixed bug in mysqladmin --relative.

On some 64-bit systems, show status reported a strange number for Open_files and Open_streams.

Fixed incorrect number of columns in EXPLAIN on empty table.

Fixed bug in LEFT JOIN that caused zero rows to be returned in the case the WHERE condition was evaluated as FALSE after reading const tables. (Unlikely condition).

FLUSH PRIVILEGES didn't correctly flush table/column privileges when mysql.tables_priv is empty.

Fixed bug in replication when using LOAD DATA INFILE one a file that updated an AUTO_INCREMENT column with NULL or 0. This bug only affected MySQL 4.0 masters (not slaves or MySQL 3.23 masters). Note: If you have a slave that has replicated a file with generated AUTO_INCREMENT columns then the slave data is corrupted and you should reinitialize the affected tables from the master.

Fixed possible memory overrun when sending a BLOB value larger than 16M to the client.

Fixed incorrect error message when setting a NOT NULL column to an expression that returned NULL.

Fixed core dump bug in str LIKE "%other_str%" where str or other_str contained characters >= 128.

Fixed bug: When executing on master LOAD DATA and InnoDB failed with table full error the binary log was corrupted.