14 DAY TRIAL // 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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