14 DAY TRIAL // MySQL, one of the most popular open source databases in the world, has just reached version 5.6.20 and is now available for download.
As usual, any new version of MySQL brings lots of improvements, and the current build is also quite large. Users will find that numerous changes have been made and some of them are quite interesting.
“The linked OpenSSL library for the MySQL 5.6 Commercial Server has been updated from version 1.0.1g to version 1.0.1h. Versions of OpenSSL prior to and including 1.0.1g are reported to be vulnerable to CVE-2014-0224. This change does not affect the Oracle-produced MySQL Community build of MySQL Server 5.6, which uses the yaSSL library instead,” notes the changelog.
According to the developers, the Redo log for large, externally stored BLOB fields can no longer overwrite the most recent checkpoint, a new system variable binlog_impossible_mode now controls what happens if the server cannot write to the binary log, CMake support has been updated to handle CMake version 3, and mysqlhotcopy has been deprecated.
A complete list of fixed bugs, updates, and new features can be found inside in the archive or on the website. You can download MySQL 5.6.20 right now from the official links.