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MySQL Community Server 5.5.54 has been released
Posted by: Gipson Pulla
Date: December 12, 2016 11:53AM

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Server 5.5.54 is a new version of the 5.5 production release
of the world's most popular open source database. MySQL 5.5.54 is
recommended for use on production systems.

MySQL 5.5 includes several high-impact enhancements to improve the
performance and scalability of the MySQL Database, taking advantage of
the latest multi-CPU and multi-core hardware and operating systems. In
addition, with release 5.5, InnoDB is now the default storage engine for
the MySQL Database, delivering ACID transactions, referential integrity
and crash recovery by default.

MySQL 5.5 also provides a number of additional enhancements including:

  - Significantly improved performance on Windows, with various
    Windows specific features and improvements
  - Higher availability, with new semi-synchronous replication and
    Replication Heartbeat
  - Improved usability, with Improved index and table partitioning,
    SIGNAL/RESIGNAL support and enhanced diagnostics, including a new
    Performance Schema monitoring capability.

For a more complete look at what's new in MySQL 5.5, please see the
following resources:

MySQL 5.5 is GA, Interview with Tomas Ulin:

  http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/interviews/thomas-ulin-mysql-55.html

Documentation:

  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysql-nutshell.html

If you are running a MySQL production level system, we would like to
direct your attention to MySQL Enterprise Edition, which includes the
most comprehensive set of MySQL production, backup, monitoring,
modeling, development, and administration tools so businesses can
achieve the highest levels of MySQL performance, security and uptime.

  http://mysql.com/products/enterprise/

For information on installing MySQL 5.5.54 on new servers, please see
the MySQL installation documentation at

  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/installing.html

For upgrading from previous MySQL releases, please see the important
upgrade considerations at:

  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/upgrading.html

MySQL Database 5.5.54 is available in source and binary form for a
number of platforms from our download pages at:

  http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/

The following section lists the changes in the MySQL source code since
the previous released version of MySQL 5.5. It may also be viewed
online at:

  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-54.html

Enjoy!

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Changes in MySQL 5.5.54 (2016-12-12, General availability)


     * Security Notes

     * Bugs Fixed

   Security Notes

     * Incompatible Change: These changes were made to
       mysqld_safe:

          + Unsafe use of rm and chown in mysqld_safe could
            result in privilege escalation. chown now can be
            used only when the target directory is /var/log. An
            incompatible change is that if the directory for the
            Unix socket file is missing, it is no longer
            created; instead, an error occurs. Due to these
            changes, /bin/bash is required to run mysqld_safe on
            Solaris. /bin/sh is still used on other Unix/Linux
            platforms.

          + The --ledir option now is accepted only on the
            command line, not in option files.

          + mysqld_safe ignores the current working directory.
       Other related changes:

          + Initialization scripts that invoke mysqld_safe pass
            --basedir explicitly.

          + Initialization scripts create the error log file
            only if the base directory is /var/log or /var/lib.

          + Unused systemd files for SLES were removed.
       (Bug #24483092, Bug #25088048)
       References: See also: Bug #24464380, Bug #24388753.

   Bugs Fixed

     * Incompatible Change: A change made in MySQL 5.7.8 for
       handling of multibyte character sets by LOAD DATA was
       reverted due to the replication incompatibility
       (Bug #24487120, Bug #82641)
       References: See also: Bug #23080148.

     * InnoDB: The GCC mach_parse_compressed function should
       load one to five bytes depending on the value of the
       first byte. Due to a GCC bug, GCC 5 and 6 emit code to
       load four bytes before the first byte value is checked
       (GCC Bug #77673). A workaround prevents this behavior.
       Thanks to Laurynas Biveinis for the patch.
       (Bug #24707869, Bug #83073)

     * Some Linux startup scripts did not process the datadir
       setting correctly. (Bug #25159791)

     * CREATE TABLE with a DATA DIRECTORY clause could be used
       to gain extra privileges. (Bug #25092566)

     * OEL RPM packages now better detect which platforms have
       multilib support (for which 32-bit and 64-bit libraries
       can be installed). Thanks to Alexey Kopytov for the
       patch. (Bug #24925181, Bug #83457)

     * If mysqladmin shutdown encountered an error determining
       the server process ID file, it displayed an error message
       that did not clearly indicate the error was nonfatal. It
       now indicates that execution continues. (Bug #24496214)

     * The data structure used for ZEROFILL columns could
       experience memory corruption, leading eventually to a
       server exit. (Bug #24489302)

     * Use of very long subpartition names could result in a
       server exit. Now partition or subpartition names larger
       than 64 characters produce an ER_TOO_LONG_IDENT error.
       (Bug #24400628, Bug #82429)

     * On Solaris, gettimeofday() could return an invalid value
       and cause a server shutdown. (Bug #23499695)

     * A union query resulting in tuples larger than
       max_join_size could result in a server exit.
       (Bug #23303485)

     * For some deeply nested expressions, the optimizer failed
       to detect stack overflow, resulting in a server exit.
       (Bug #23135667)

     * The --character-set-server option could set connection
       character set system variables to values such as ucs2
       that are not permitted. (Bug #15985752, Bug #23303391)

On behalf of Oracle MySQL Release Engineering Team,
Gipson Pulla

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