MySQL 5.5.17 Released

MySQL, a widely used and fast client and server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs/libraries, has just reached version 5.5.17.

MySQL 5.5.17 brings two changes, and fixes a series of annoying bugs that plagued the previous version.

The most important change is quite straightforward: replication slaves can now also connect through master accounts that use nonnative authentication.

Among the bugs fixed we can list a few important ones such as:
· Improving the performance of instrumentation code for InnoDB buffer pool operations;
· Data from BLOB columns could be lost if the server crashed at a precise moment when other columns were being updated in an InnoDB table;
· Lookups using secondary indexes could give incorrect matches under a specific set of conditions was fixed;
· A linking problem prevented the FEDERATED storage engine plugin from loading was fixed.

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