InnoDB has been upgraded to version 1.0.6. This version is considered of Release Candidate (RC) quality. Section 13.7.12, “InnoDB Storage Engine Change History”, may contain information in addition to those changes reported here.

The version information in RPM package files has been changed:

For example, the generic x86 server RPM file of 5.5.1-m2 is named MySQL-server-5.5.1_m2-1.glibc23.i386.rpm. This improves consistency with other formats that also include the level (for this version: “m2”) in the file name. For example, the tar.gz filename is mysql-5.5.1-m2-linux-i686-glibc23.tar.gz. The different separator, underscore '_' for RPM, is required by the syntax of RPM.

Partitioning: The UNIX_TIMESTAMP() function is now supported in partitioning expressions using TIMESTAMP columns. For example, it now possible to create a partitioned table such as this one:

CREATE TABLE t (c TIMESTAMP) 
PARTITION BY RANGE ( UNIX_TIMESTAMP(c) ) (
    PARTITION p0 VALUES LESS THAN (631148400),
    PARTITION p1 VALUES LESS THAN (946681200),
    PARTITION p2 VALUES LESS THAN (MAXVALUE)
);

All other expressions involving TIMESTAMP values are now rejected with an error when attempting to create a new partitioned table or to alter an existing partitioned table.

When accessing an existing partitioned table having a timezone-dependent partitioning function (where the table was using a previous version of MySQL), a warning rather than an error is issued. In such cases, you should fix the table. One way of doing this is to alter the table's partitioning expression so that it uses UNIX_TIMESTAMP(). (Bug#42849)

Performance: When the query cache is fragmented, the size of the free block lists in the memory bins grows, which causes query cache invalidation to become slow. There is now a 50ms timeout for a SELECT statement waiting for the query cache lock. If the timeout expires, the statement executes without using the query cache. (Bug#39253)

See also Bug#21074.

Incompatible Change: Replication: The file names for the semisynchronous plugins were prefixed with lib, unlike file names for other plugins. The file names no longer have a lib prefix.

This change introduces an incompatibility if the plugins had been installed using the previous names. To handle this, uninstall the older version before installing the newer version. For example, use these statements for the master side plugins on Unix:

mysql> UNINSTALL PLUGIN rpl_semi_sync_master;
mysql> INSTALL PLUGIN rpl_semi_sync_master SONAME 'semisync_master.so';

If you do not uninstall the older version first, attempting to install the newer version results in an error:

mysql> INSTALL PLUGIN rpl_semi_sync_master SONAME 'semisync_master.so';
ERROR 1125 (HY000): Function 'rpl_semi_sync_master' already exists

For the slave side, similar statements apply:

mysql> UNINSTALL PLUGIN rpl_semi_sync_slave;
mysql> INSTALL PLUGIN rpl_semi_sync_slave SONAME 'semisync_slave.so';

Important Change: Replication: The following functions have been marked unsafe for statement-based replication:

None of the functions just listed are guaranteed to replicate correctly when using the statement-based format, because they can produce different results on the master and the slave. The use of any of these functions while binlog_format is set to STATEMENT is logged with the warning, Statement is not safe to log in statement format. When binlog_format is set to MIXED, the binary logging format is automatically switched to the row-based format whenever one of these functions is used. (Bug#47995)

Important Change: After a binary upgrade to MySQL 5.1 from a MySQL 5.0 installation that contains ARCHIVE tables:

In either case, the solution is to use mysqldump to dump all 5.0 ARCHIVE tables before upgrading, and reload them into MySQL 5.1 after upgrading. The same problem occurs for binary downgrades from MySQL 5.1 to 5.0. (Bug#47012)

InnoDB Storage Engine: When compiling on Windows, an error in the CMake definitions for InnoDB would cause the engine to be built incorrectly. (Bug#49502)

Partitioning: When SHOW CREATE TABLE was invoked for a table that had been created using the COLUMNS keyword or the TO_SECONDS() function, the output contained the wrong MySQL version number in the conditional comments. (Bug#49591)

Partitioning: A query that searched on a ucs2 column failed if the table was partitioned. (Bug#48737)

Partitioning: In some cases, it was not possible to add a new column to a table that had subpartitions. (Bug#48276)

Partitioning: SELECT COUNT(*) from a partitioned table failed when using the ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY SQL mode. (Bug#46923)

This regression was introduced by Bug#45807.

Partitioning: SUBPARTITION BY KEY failed with DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8. (Bug#45904)

Replication: When using row-based logging, TRUNCATE TABLE was written to the binary log even if the affected table was temporary, causing replication to fail. (Bug#48350)

Replication: A flaw in the implementation of the purging of binary logs could result in orphaned files being left behind in the following circumstances:

In addition, if the slave was not connected during the purge operation, it was possible for a log file that was in use to be removed; this could lead data loss and possible inconsistencies between the master and slave. (Bug#45292)

Replication: When using the STATEMENT or MIXED logging format, the statements LOAD DATA CONCURRENT LOCAL INFILE and LOAD DATA CONCURRENT INFILE were logged as LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE and LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE, respectively (in other words, the CONCURRENT keyword was omitted). As a result, when using replication with either of these logging modes, queries on the slaves were blocked by the replication SQL thread while trying to execute the affected statements. (Bug#34628)

Cluster Replication: When expire_logs_days was set, the thread performing the purge of the log files could deadlock, causing all binary log operations to stop. (Bug#49536)

For debug builds on Windows, SAFEMALLOC was defined inconsistently, leading to mismatches when using my_malloc() and my_free(). (Bug#49811)

The mysql.server script had incorrect shutdown logic. (Bug#49772)

The push_warning_printf() function was being called with an invalid error level MYSQL_ERROR::WARN_LEVEL_ERROR, causing an assertion failure. To fix the problem, MYSQL_ERROR::WARN_LEVEL_ERROR has been replaced by MYSQL_ERROR::WARN_LEVEL_WARN. (Bug#49638)

The result of comparison between nullable BIGINT and INT columns was inconsistent. (Bug#49517)

A Valgrind error in make_cond_for_table_from_pred() was corrected. Thanks to Sergey Petrunya for the patch to fix this bug. (Bug#49506)

Incorrect cache initialization prevented storage of converted constant values and could produce incorrect comparison results. (Bug#49489)

Comparisons involving YEAR values could produce incorrect results. (Bug#49480)

See also Bug#43668.

Valgrind warnings for CHECKSUM TABLE were corrected. (Bug#49465)

Specifying an index algorithm (such as BTREE) for SPATIAL or FULLTEXT indexes caused a server crash. These index types do not support algorithm specification, and it is not longer permitted to do so. (Bug#49250)

The optimizer sometimes incorrectly handled conditions of the form WHERE col_name='const1' AND col_name='const2'. (Bug#49199)

Execution of DECODE() and ENCODE() could be inefficient because multiple executions within a single statement reinitialized the random generator multiple times even with constant parameters. (Bug#49141)

With binary logging enabled, REVOKE ... ON {PROCEDURE|FUNCTION} FROM ... could cause a crash. (Bug#49119)

The LIKE operator did not work correctly when using an index for a ucs2 column. (Bug#49028)

check_key_in_view() was missing a DBUG_RETURN in one code branch, causing a crash in debug builds. (Bug#48995)

If a query involving a table was terminated with KILL, a subsequent SHOW CREATE TABLE for that table caused a server crash. (Bug#48985)

Privileges for stored routines were ignored for mixed-case routine names. (Bug#48872)

See also Bug#41049.

Building MySQL on Fedora Core 12 64-bit failed, due to errors in comp_err. (Bug#48864)

Concurrent ALTER TABLE operations on an InnoDB table could raise an assertion. (Bug#48782)

Incomplete reset of internal TABLE structures could cause a crash with eq_ref table access in subqueries. (Bug#48709)

During query execution, ranges could be merged incorrectly for OR operations and return an incorrect result. (Bug#48665)

The InnoDB Table Monitor reported the FLOAT and DOUBLE data types incorrectly. (Bug#48526)

Re-execution of a prepared statement could cause a server crash. (Bug#48508)

With row-based binary logging, the server crashed for statements of the form CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS existing_view LIKE temporary_table. This occurred because the server handled the existing view as a table when logging the statement. (Bug#48506)

The error message for ER_UPDATE_INFO was subject to buffer overflow or truncation. (Bug#48500)

DISTINCT was ignored for queries with GROUP BY WITH ROLLUP and only const tables. (Bug#48475)

Loose index scan was inappropriately chosen for some WHERE conditions. (Bug#48472)

The server could crash and corrupt the tablespace if the InnoDB tablespace was configured with too small a value, or if many CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE statements were executed and the temporary file directory filled up with innodb_file_per_table enabled. (Bug#48469)

Parts of the range optimizer could be initialized incorrectly, resulting in Valgrind errors. (Bug#48459)

A bad typecast could cause query execution to allocate large amounts of memory. (Bug#48458)

SHOW BINLOG EVENTS could fail with a error: Wrong offset or I/O error. (Bug#48357)

Valgrind warnings related to binary logging of LOAD DATA INFILE statements were corrected. (Bug#48340)

On Windows, InnoDB could not be built as a statically linked library. (Bug#48317)

mysql_secure_installation did not work on Solaris. (Bug#48086)

When running mysql_secure_installation, the command would fail if the root password contained multiple spaces, \, # or quote characters. (Bug#48031)

MATCH IN BOOLEAN MODE searches could return too many results inside a subquery. (Bug#47930)

User-defined collations with an ID less then 256 were not initialized correctly when loaded and caused a server crash. (Bug#47756)

If a session held a global read lock acquired with FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK, a lock for one table acquired with LOCK TABLES, and issued an INSERT DELAYED statement for another table, deadlock could occur. (Bug#47682)

The mysql client status command displayed an incorrect value for the server character set. (Bug#47671)

Connecting to a 4.1.x server from a 5.1.x or higher mysql client resulted in a memory-free error when disconnecting. (Bug#47655)

Queries containing GROUP BY ... WITH ROLLUP that did not use indexes could return incorrect results. (Bug#47650)

Assignment of a system variable sharing the same base name as a declared stored program variable in the same context could lead to a crash. (Bug#47627)

On Solaris, no stack trace was printed to the error log after a crash. (Bug#47391)

The first execution of STOP SLAVE UNTIL stopped too early. (Bug#47210)

The innodb_file_format_check system variable could not be set at runtime to DEFAULT or to the value of a user-defined variable. (Bug#47167)

The IGNORE clause on a DELETE statement masked an SQL statement error that occurred during trigger processing. (Bug#46425)

Valgrind errors for InnoDB were corrected. (Bug#45992, Bug#46656)

The return value was not checked for some my_hash_insert() calls. (Bug#45613)

It was possible for init_available_charsets() not to initialize correctly. (Bug#45058)

GROUP BY on a constant (single-row) InnoDB table joined to other tables caused a server crash. (Bug#44886)

For a VARCHAR(N) column, ORDER BY BINARY(col_name) sorted using only the first N bytes of the column, even though column values could be longer than N bytes if they contained multibyte characters. (Bug#44131)

For YEAR(2) values, MIN(), MAX(), and comparisons could yield incorrect results. (Bug#43668)

Comparison with NULL values sometimes did not produce a correct result. (Bug#42760)

In debug builds, killing a LOAD XML INFILE statement raised an assertion.

Implemented in the course of fixing this bug, mysqltest has a new send_eval command that combines the functionality of the existing send and eval commands. (Bug#42520)

The server could crash when attempting to access a non-conformant mysql.proc system table. For example, the server could crash when invoking stored procedure-related statements after an upgrade from MySQL 5.0 to 5.1 without running mysql_upgrade. (Bug#41726)

The mysql_upgrade command would create three additional fields to the mysql.proc table (character_set_client, collation_connection, and db_collation), but did not populate the fields with correct values. This would lead to error messages reported during stored procedure execution. (Bug#41569)

Use of InnoDB monitoring (SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS or one of the InnoDB Monitor tables) could cause a server crash due to invalid access to a shared variable in a concurrent environment. (Bug#38883)

When compressed MyISAM files were opened, they were always memory mapped, sometimes causing memory-swapping problems. To deal with this, a new system variable, myisam_mmap_size, was added to limit the amount of memory used for memory mapping of MyISAM files. (Bug#37408)

When running mysql_secure_installation on Windows, the command would fail to load a required module, Term::ReadKey, which was required for correct operation. (Bug#35106)

If the --log-bin server option was set to a directory name with a trailing component separator character, the basename of the binary log files was empty so that the created files were named .000001 and .index. The same thing occurred with the --log-bin-index, --relay-log, and --relay-log-index options. Now the server reports and error and exits. (Bug#34739)

If a comparison involved a constant value that required type conversion, the converted value might not be cached, resulting in repeated conversion and poorer performance. (Bug#34384)

Using the SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS statement when using partitions in InnoDB tables caused Invalid (old?) table or database name errors to be logged. (Bug#32430)

Output from mysql --html did not encode the <, >, or & characters. (Bug#27884)

Under heavy load with a large query cache, invalidating part of the cache could cause the server to freeze (that is, to be unable to service other operations until the invalidation was complete). (Bug#21074)

See also Bug#39253.

On some Windows systems, InnoDB could report Operating system error number 995 in a file operation due to transient driver or hardware problems. InnoDB now retries the operation and adds Retry attempt is made to the error message. (Bug#3139)