Thank you to the MySQL Community, on behalf of the MySQL team @ Oracle. Your bug reports, testcases and patches have helped create a better MySQL 5.6.17.
In particular:
- Thanks to Anthony Pong for reporting a confusing error message when mysql_install_db could not locate the required Perl modules. Bug #69844.
- Thanks to Jervin Real for reporting a recently introduced performance regression with compressed InnoDB tables. Bug #71436.
- Thanks to Laurynas Biveinis for reporting a race condition in InnoDB on shutdown. Bug #70430.
- Thanks to Jervin Real for reporting that innodb_data_file_path could not be specified in kilobytes, as was indicated in the manual. Bug #68282.
- Thanks to Elena Stepanova for reporting that InnoDB miscalculates auto-increment after changing auto_increment_increment. Bug #65225.
- Thanks to qinglin zhang for reporting a memory leak in the slave sql thread, plus providing a suggested patch. While we did not end up using qinglin’s patch, we value the contribution. Bug #71197.
- Thanks to 徹 赤松 for reporting that SHOW SLAVE STATUS incorrectly reported the master’s SSL information. Bug #70866.
- Thanks to Yoshinori Matsunobu for reporting an issue where a slave can’t continue replication after the master’s crash recovery Bug #70669
- Thanks to Erik Hoekstra for pointing out that using slave-parallel-workers may result in the error log being spammed with warnings. Bug #68429.
- Thanks to Ovais Tariq for identifying that slaves with an additional auto-increment were not updated correctly. Bug #69680.
- Thanks to Simon Mudd for suggesting that modifications to performance_schema tables should not be replicated. Bug #67159.
- Thanks to Miguel Angel Nieto for identifying that temporary files created by binlog cache are not cleaned up. Bug #66237.
- Thanks to hickey liu for reporting a race-condition in semi-sync replication. Bug #66411.
- Thanks to Yoshinori Matsunobu for reporting excessive mutex contention in semi-sync replication. Bug #70218.
- Thanks to honza horak for suggesting that mysqld –help should exit with a zero error code. Bug #70058.
- Thanks to Jonathan Weaver for identifying that MySQL community edition client programs could not connect to MySQL enterprise servers with SSL enabled. Bug #68788.
- Thanks to Jørgen Thomsen for reporting that mysqldump did not support the secure-auth parameter. Bug #69051.
- Thanks to Raghavendra Prabhu for reporting an assertion when running Random Query Generator (RQG). Bug #69969.
- Thanks to Tim McLaughlin for reporting that wrong results could be returned in a SELECT DISTINCT…GROUP BY query. We also thank Tim for reducing the bug to a minimal testcase. Bug #70657.
- Thanks to Hartmut Holzgraefe for suggesting improvements to warnings written to the error log for invalid collations. Bug #68144.
- Thanks to Ralf Adams for reporting that wrong results could be returned when using ALL() and GROUP BY. Ralf also provided a minimal testcase, which was useful in reproducing the issue. Bug #71244.
- Thanks to Elena Stepanova for identifying that unquoted file names for variable values are accepted but parsed incorrectly. Bug #69703.
- Thanks to Valeriy Kravchuk for suggesting that innodb_ft_result_search_limit should have a predictable maximum value. Bug #71554.
Thank you again to all the community contributors listed above. In particular, the MySQL team would like to call out the names that appear more than once in this release:
Jervin Real (2), Yoshinori Matsunobu (2), Elena Stepanova (2)
If I missed a name here, please let me know!
- Morgan