Functionality added or changed:
            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 Secção 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().
          
Bugs fixed:
            Fixed initialisation 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 reinitialise 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.
          
This is a translation of the MySQL Reference Manual that can be found at dev.mysql.com. The original Reference Manual is in English, and this translation is not necessarily as up to date as the English version.

