Throughout the course of development, InnoDB 1.1 and its predecessor the InnoDB Plugin introduced new configuration parameters.

The following InnoDB-related configuration parameters were added between MySQL 5.5 and 5.6:

innodb_adaptive_max_sleep_delay, innodb_buffer_pool_dump_at_shutdown, innodb_buffer_pool_dump_now, innodb_buffer_pool_filename, innodb_buffer_pool_load_abort, innodb_buffer_pool_load_at_startup, innodb_buffer_pool_load_now, innodb_change_buffer_max_size, innodb_checksum_algorithm, innodb_disable_sort_file_cache, innodb_flush_neighbors, innodb_force_load_corrupted, innodb_ft_aux_table, innodb_ft_cache_size, innodb_ft_enable_diag_print, innodb_ft_enable_stopword, innodb_ft_max_token_size, innodb_ft_min_token_size, innodb_ft_num_word_optimize, innodb_ft_server_stopword_table, innodb_ft_sort_pll_degree, innodb_ft_user_stopword_table, innodb_large_prefix, innodb_lru_scan_depth, innodb_monitor_disable, innodb_monitor_enable, innodb_monitor_reset, innodb_monitor_reset_all, innodb_optimize_fulltext_only, innodb_page_size, innodb_print_all_deadlocks, innodb_random_read_ahead, innodb_sort_buffer_size, innodb_stats_persistent_sample_pages, innodb_stats_transient_sample_pages, innodb_sync_array_size, innodb_undo_directory, innodb_undo_logs, innodb_undo_tablespaces

For better out-of-the-box performance, the following InnoDB configuration parameters have new default values since MySQL 5.1: