This release continues the process begun in MySQL 5.6.6 of making changes to the default values of server parameters. The motivation for these changes is to provide better out-of-box performance and to reduce the need for database administrators to change settings manually. These changes are subject to revision in future releases as we gain feedback.

The following table summarizes changes to defaults. Any of these default settings can be overridden by specifying an explicit value at server startup.

Performance; InnoDB: A new setting O_DIRECT_NO_FSYNC was added to the innodb_flush_method configuration option. This setting is similar to O_DIRECT, but omits the subsequent fsync() call. Suitable for some filesystems but not others. (Bug #11754304, Bug #45892)

Important Change; Partitioning: The maximum number of partitions for a user-partitioned table is increased from 1024 to 8192. (Bug #11755685)

Important Change: In MySQL 5.6.6, INSERT DELAYED was deprecated, to be removed in a future release. The same is now also true for DELAYED-related system variables delayed_insert_limit, delayed_insert_timeout, delayed_queue_size, max_delayed_threads, and max_insert_delayed_threads, and DELAYED-related status variables Delayed_errors, Delayed_insert_threads, Delayed_writes, and Not_flushed_delayed_rows.

InnoDB: The --innodb-read-only option lets you run a MySQL server in read-only mode. You can access InnoDB tables on read-only media such as a DVD or CD, or set up a data warehouse with multiple instances all sharing the same data directory. See Configuring InnoDB for Read-Only Operation for usage details. (Bug #14143600)

InnoDB: You can now select the compression level for InnoDB compressed tables, from the familiar range of 0-9 used by zlib. The compression level is controlled by the innodb_compression_level configuration option, with a default value of 6:

You can also control whether compressed pages in the buffer pool are stored in the redo log when an update operation causes pages to be compressed again. This behavior is controlled by the innodb_log_compressed_pages configuration option. Turning off logging for compressed pages reduces the amount of redo data that is generated, possibly improving throughput. If the compressed page is required during crash recovery, it is compressed again at that time.

InnoDB: New INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables, innodb_cmp_per_index and innodb_cmp_per_index_reset, provide statistics on InnoDB tables that use compression. The statistics at the index level let DBAs measure whether the proportion of successful or failed compression operations is acceptable for a particular combination of table, index, page size, and workload. Typically, the compression failure rate should be less than 10%, particularly when using a compressed table to handle an OLTP-style workload with frequent INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE operations.

Because gathering those statistics could be very time consuming and would hurt performance negatively, the new tables are enabled only when the new configuration option innodb_cmp_per_index_enabled is set to ON. (It is OFF by default.)

InnoDB: Each data block in an InnoDB compressed table contains a certain amount of empty space (padding) to allow DML operations to modify the row data without re-compressing the new values. Too much padding can increase the chance of a compression failure, requiring a page split, when the data does need to be re-compressed after extensive changes. The amount of padding can now be adjusted dynamically, so that DBAs can reduce the rate of compression failures without re-creating the entire table with new parameters, or re-creating the entire instance with a different page size. The associated new configuration options are innodb_compression_failure_threshold_pct, innodb_compression_pad_pct_max

When MySQL is configured with -DWITH_SSL=system to build with OpenSSL, CMake now produces an error if OpenSSL is older than version 1.0.1 (Bug #14167227)

The default has changed from false to true for the --secure-auth option for mysql and the MYSQL_SECURE_AUTH option for the mysql_options() C API function. (Bug #13789417)

The WITH_SSL option for CMake now accepts a path_name value that indicates the path name to the OpenSSL installation to use. This can be useful instead of a value of system when the CMake code detects an older or incorrect installed OpenSSL version. (Another permitted way to do the same thing is to set the CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH option to path_name.) (Bug #61619, Bug #12762891)

The server now issues a Note diagnostic if an index is created that duplicates an existing index. (Bug #37520, Bug #11748842)

The mysql_clear_password cleartext client-side authentication plugin is intended for authentication schemes that require the server to receive the password as entered on the client side, without hashing. Because the password is sent in the clear, this plugin should be used within the context of a secure connection, such as an SSL connection, to avoid exposing the password over the network. To make inadvertent use of this plugin less likely, it is now required that clients explicitly enable it. This can be done several ways:

The MySQL client library now includes SSL support built in. When linking MySQL client programs, you should no longer specify either -lssl or -lcrypto.

References: See also Bug #12762891, Bug #14167227.

The unused multi_range_count system variable is now deprecated, and will be removed in a future release.

The following items are deprecated and will be removed in a future MySQL release. Where alternatives are shown, applications should be updated to use them.

Performance; InnoDB: This fix improves the performance of the InnoDB memcached plugin in several ways:

(Bug #14252821)

Performance; InnoDB: The OPTIMIZE TABLE statement now updates the InnoDB persistent statistics for that table when appropriate. (Bug #14238097)

Performance; InnoDB: This fix removes redundant checksum validation on InnoDB pages. The checksum was being verified both when a compressed page was read from disk and when it was uncompressed. Now the verification is only performed when the page is read from disk. (Bug #14212892, Bug #64170)

Performance; Replication: On Solaris systems, enabling slave_parallel_workers could lead to a slowdown in event executions on the slave. (Bug #14641110)

References: See also Bug #13897025.

Performance; Replication: When slave_parallel_workers was enabled, an internal multiplier representing the number of events above a certain overrun level in the worker queue was never reset to zero, even when the excess had been taken care of; this caused the multiplier to grow without interruption over time, leading to a slowdown in event executions on the slave. (Bug #13897025)

Performance: View definitions (in .frm files) were not cached and thus every access to a view involved a file read. Definitions now are cached for better performance. (Bug #13819275)

Performance: Certain instances of subquery materialization could lead to poor performance. Subquery materialization now is chosen only if it is less costly than the EXISTS transformation. (See Optimizing Subqueries with Subquery Materialization, and Optimizing Subqueries with EXISTS Strategy.)

This fix introduces a new flag for the optimizer_switch system variable named subquery_materialization_cost_based. If the flag is on (the default), the optimizer performs a cost-based choice between subquery materialization and IN -> EXISTS subquery transformation if either method could be used. If the flag is off, the optimizer chooses subquery materialization over IN -> EXISTS subquery transformation, which was the previous behavior. (Bug #13111584)

Incompatible Change: Using ALTER TABLE to change the definition of a foreign key column could cause a loss of referential integrity. For example, changing a foreign key column that contained NULL values to be NOT NULL caused the NULL values to be the empty string. Similarly, an ALTER TABLE IGNORE that removed rows in a parent table could break referential integrity.

The server now prohibits changes to foreign key columns with the potential to cause loss of referential integrity. A workaround is to use ALTER TABLE ... DROP FOREIGN KEY before changing the column definition and ALTER TABLE ... ADD FOREIGN KEY afterward. (Bug #46599, Bug #11754911)

Important Change; Replication: When issued during an ongoing transaction, any of the following statements that are used to control MySQL Replication now cause the transaction to be committed:

For more information, see Statements That Cause an Implicit Commit. (Bug #13858841)

References: See also Bug #14298750, Bug #13627921.

Important Change: The ALTER USER statement cleared the user password in the mysql.user table. It no longer does this. (Bug #14226518)

Important Change: Formerly, the ExtractValue() and UpdateXML() functions supported a maximum length of 127 characters for XPath expressions supplied to them as arguments. This limitation has now been removed. (Bug #13007062, Bug #62429)

InnoDB; Partitioning: A SELECT from a partitioned InnoDB table having no primary key sometimes failed to return any rows where a nonempty result was expected. In such cases the server also returned the error Can't find record in table_name or Incorrect key file for table table_name. (Bug #13947868)

InnoDB: When configuring the InnoDB memached plugin system table, INNODB_MEMCACHE.CONTAINERS, a comma (“,”) and empty space are used as a delimiter for mapping multiple columns to a memcached value. This fix allows the pipe character, (“|”), to also be used as a delimiter. (Bug #14560228)

InnoDB: On Windows systems, a file access error due to an incorrect value for MYSQL_DATADIR could cause an InnoDB assertion error. The error could persist after restarting MySQL. (Bug #14558324)

InnoDB: Inserting data of varying record lengths into an InnoDB table that used compression could cause the server to halt with an error. (Bug #14554000, Bug #13523839, Bug #63815, Bug #12845774, Bug #61456, Bug #12595091, Bug #61208)

InnoDB: The default for the innodb_checksum_algorithm, which was briefly changed to crc32 during the MySQL 5.6 development cycle, was switched back to innodb for improved compatibility of InnoDB data files during a downgrade to an earlier MySQL version. (Bug #14525151)

InnoDB: In an ALTER TABLE that rebuilds a table, and in particular, ADD COLUMN, DROP COLUMN, there were some assertion failures related to FULLTEXT indexes, particularly for tables containing more than one FULLTEXT index. The fix makes the ALTER TABLE correctly use or not use online DDL depending on the presence of FULLTEXT indexes. If a table had a FULLTEXT index that was dropped, any restrictions on online DDL for that table remain, due to the hidden FTS_DOC_ID column. (Bug #14488218)

InnoDB: Under certain conditions, the innodb_io_capacity_max configuration option now uses the following formula to calculate a default value:

innodb_io_capacity_max = max(2000, innodb_io_capacity * 2)

The formula only takes affect when you specify a value for innodb_io_capacity at server startup and do not specify a value for innodb_io_capacity_max. The formula is not used when setting a value for innodb_io_capacity dynamically using a SET statement. (Bug #14469086)

InnoDB: Under heavy load of concurrent DML and queries, an InnoDB table with a unique index could return nonexistent duplicate rows to a query. (Bug #14399148, Bug #66134)

InnoDB: The syntax ALTER TABLE ... DROP FOREIGN KEY ... ALGORITHM=COPY incorrectly considered the names of foreign keys to be case-sensitive. (Bug #14394071)

InnoDB: When an error (such as a duplicate key error) was detected during an online DDL operation, while applying changes made to the table while an index was being built, MySQL could encounter an assertion error if the same ALTER TABLE statement also contained any DROP INDEX clauses. (Bug #14392805)

InnoDB: When an InnoDB table had a system-chosen primary key, based on a unique index on non-nullable columns, an error was issued if one of the primary key columns was altered to be nullable. The message was:

Warning	1082	InnoDB: Table table_name has a primary key in InnoDB data 
dictionary, but not in MySQL!

This issue only affected ALTER TABLE statements using the online DDL mechanism, that is, with the ALGORITHM=INPLACE clause specified or implied. (Bug #14353985)

InnoDB: A heavy query workload against an InnoDB table with a FULLTEXT index could cause a crash. The issue only occurred with some number of queries per second and some number of concurrent connections. (Bug #14347352)

InnoDB: If an online CREATE INDEX operation failed, there was a brief period of time when concurrent DML operations could fail because the table was considered to be in an error state. (Bug #14341099)

InnoDB: ALTER TABLE statements for partitioned tables could cause unnecessary locking and undo information. As part of the new online DDL feature, MySQL minimizes this overhead when practical, or you can specify the ALGORITHM=INPLACE clause on the ALTER TABLE statement. (Bug #14322667)

InnoDB: The mysql_install_db command could crash with an assertion error:

InnoDB: Assertion failure in thread thread_num in file trx0rseg.cc line 326 

The size of the InnoDB system tablespace was being capped at 10MB, but during the 5.6 development cycle, the minimum size of a system tablespace became slightly larger than 10MB. (Bug #14315223)

InnoDB: A race condition could cause assertion errors during a DROP TABLE statement for an InnoDB table. Some internal InnoDB functions did not correctly determine if a tablespace was missing; other functions did not handle the error code correctly if a tablespace was missing. (Bug #14251529)

InnoDB: When more than one InnoDB temporary table was created and accessed within the same transaction, queries on those temporary tables could fail with an ER_TABLE_DEF_CHANGED error. (Bug #14234581)

InnoDB: The server could crash with a combination of a transaction with SERIALIZABLE isolation level, FLUSH TABLES ... WITH READ LOCK, and a subsequent query. The error message was:

InnoDB: Failing assertion: prebuilt->stored_select_lock_type != LOCK_NONE_UNSET 

(Bug #14222066)

InnoDB: This fix addresses several issues regarding AUTO_INCREMENT columns when adding a column using online DDL (that is, with ALGORITHM=INPLACE). Now the AUTO_INCREMENT_OFFSET value is used properly, the calculation for the next value is corrected, FLOAT, DOUBLE, and unsigned INTEGER auto-increment values are handled correctly, and overflow conditions are detected. (Bug #14219624)

InnoDB: With the MySQL 5.6 online DDL feature, an ALTER TABLE statement to add a primary key to an InnoDB table could succeed, even though the primary key columns contained duplicate values. (Bug #14219515)

InnoDB: This fix prevents online DDL operations from conflicting with foreign key operations happening simultaneously on the same table. Updates or deletes based on CASCADE or SET NULL clauses in the foreign key definition are blocked while the online DDL is in progress, because the information needed in case of a ROLLBACK would not be available after the ALTER TABLE statement completes. (Bug #14219233)

InnoDB: A SHOW ENGINE...STATUS command could crash if an XA transaction was created using the statement START TRANSACTION READ ONLY. (Bug #14218867)

InnoDB: The server could crash if a read-only transaction was killed in a session that contained an InnoDB temporary table. (Bug #14213784)

InnoDB: An INSERT into a table after a failed online DDL operation could cause an erroneous assertion error:

InnoDB: Failing assertion: prebuilt->trx_id == 0 || prebuilt->trx_id <= 
last_index->trx_id 

(Bug #14176821)

InnoDB: The server could hang at startup, during crash recovery, if the rollback of previously active transactions conflicted with the dropping of temporary tables. With this fix, persistent statistics do not apply to InnoDB temporary tables. (Bug #14175080)

InnoDB: The configuration option innodb_max_io_capacity was renamed to innodb_io_capacity_max, to emphasize its relationship to the existing innodb_io_capacity option. (Bug #14175020)

InnoDB: An online DDL operations to add a foreign key could incorrectly leave some memory allocated if the DDL encountered an error. (Bug #14156259)

InnoDB: The server could crash with a signal 8 (division by zero error) due to a race condition while computing index statistics. (Bug #14150372)

InnoDB: When an auto-increment column used a FLOAT or DOUBLE data type, if the auto-increment value became very large (larger than the maximum unsigned long long value), subsequent inserts could fail or cause the server to halt. (Bug #14145950, Bug #55071)

InnoDB: Deleting from an InnoDB table containing a prefix index, and subsequently dropping the index, could cause a crash with an assertion error. (Bug #13807811)

InnoDB: The value of the NUMBER_PAGES_CREATED and NUMBER_PAGES_WRITTEN columns of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_BUFFER_POOL_STATS table were set to incorrect values, and the NUMBER_PAGES_GET column was not being set at all. (Bug #13639187)

InnoDB: The error message was improved for the case where an UPDATE failed because the row included several BLOB values greater than 768 bytes each, causing the size of a row to exceed half the page size. The old message, was misleading; it suggested using BLOBs, when the 768-byte prefix for each BLOB column was the cause of the limit error:

Error Code 1118: Row size too large. The maximum row size for the used table 
type, not counting BLOBs, is 8126. You have to change some columns to TEXT or 
BLOBs

A workaround for the problem was to create the table with the ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC or ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED clause, which is now suggested in the message. (Bug #13453036, Bug #63507)

InnoDB: The server could crash when updating very large BLOB values, typically 16MB or more. (Bug #13450566)

InnoDB: A problem in the locking mechanism could cause a serious error with queries using the HANDLER statement. (Bug #11766271, Bug #59344)

InnoDB: When a SELECT ... FOR UPDATE, UPDATE, or other SQL statement scanned rows in an InnoDB table using a < or <= operator in a WHERE clause, the next row after the affected range could also be locked. This issue could cause a lock wait timeout for a row that was not expected to be locked. The issue occurred under various isolation levels, such as READ COMMITTED and REPEATABLE READ. (Bug #11765218)

InnoDB: The new online DDL feature addressed long-standing bugs where ALTER TABLE statements caused table rebuilds unnecessarily. This particular bug applied to changing default values for TIMESTAMP columns. (Bug #11753646, Bug #45124)

InnoDB: Various inconsistent behaviors, including tables becoming inaccessible, were cleaned up for ALTER TABLE statements involving InnoDB tables involved in foreign key relationships. (Bug #11744929, Bug #5670)

Partitioning: For tables using PARTITION BY HASH or PARTITION BY KEY, when the partition pruning mechanism encountered a multi-range list or inequality using a column from the partitioning key, it continued with the next partitioning column and tried to use it for pruning, even if the previous column could not be used. This caused partitions which possibly matched one or more of the previous partitioning columns to be pruned away, leaving partitions that matched only the last column of the partitioning key.

This issue was triggered when both of the following conditions were met:

An example of a statement creating a partitioned table and a query against this for which the issue described above occurred is shown here:

CREATE TABLE t1 (
  c1 INT,
  c2 INT,
  PRIMARY KEY(c2, c1)
) PARTITION BY KEY()  # Use primary key as partitioning key 
  PARTITIONS 2;

SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE c2 = 2 AND c1 <> 2;

This issue is resolved by ensuring that partition pruning skips any remaining partitioning key columns once a partition key column that cannot be used in pruning is encountered. (Bug #14342883)

Partitioning: The buffer for the row currently read from each partition used for sorted reads was allocated on open and freed only when the partitioning handler was closed or destroyed. For SELECT statements on tables with many partitions and large rows, this could cause the server to use excessive amounts of memory.

This issue has been addressed by allocating buffers for reads from partitioned tables only when they are needed and freeing them immediately once they are no longer needed. As part of this fix, memory is now allocated for reading from rows only in partitions that have not been pruned (see Partition Pruning). (Bug #13025132)

References: See also Bug #11764622, Bug #14537277.

Replication; Microsoft Windows: On 64-bit Windows platforms, values greater than 4G for the max_binlog_cache_size and max_binlog_stmt_cache_size system variables were truncated to 4G. This caused LOAD DATA INFILE to fail when trying to load a file larger than 4G in size, even when max_binlog_cache_size was set to a value greater than this. (Bug #13961678)

Replication: Updates writing user variables whose values were never set on a slave while using --replicate-ignore-table could cause the slave to fail. (Bug #14597605)

References: This bug was introduced by Bug #14275000.

Replication: A manually created file named slave_worker_info in the MySQL Server's data directory could be mistaken for the actual relay log info file. In addition, when the number of workers (slave_parallel_workers server system variable) was decreased, the corresponding info files were not removed as expected. (Bug #14578740)

References: See also Bug #13804728, Bug #14550905, Bug #14550945.

Replication: With relay_log_info_repository=FILE and slave_parallel_workers greater than 0, changing the relay log info repository type to TABLE and restarting the slave mysqld caused a subsequent START SLAVE statement to crash the slave. (Bug #14550945)

References: See also Bug #13804728, Bug #14550905, Bug #14578740.

Replication: When the number of multi-threaded slave workers (as determined by setting the slave_parallel_workers server system variable) was changed when using relay_log_info_repository=TABLE, the mysql.slave_worker_info table did not reflect the change. (Bug #14550905)

References: See also Bug #13804728, Bug #14550945, Bug #14578740.

Replication: Using COM_BINLOG_DUMP_GTID with incorrect data could cause the server to crash. (Bug #14509140)

Replication: Executing the SQL_THREAD_WAIT_AFTER_GTIDS() function without binary logging enabled could cause the server to crash. (Bug #14457883)

Replication: An internal routine in the MySQL Replication code removed elements from a hash used to store a mapping between databases and worker threads at the same time that the hash was being iterated over. This could cause an unintended reordering of the has elements and thus possibly to incorrect results from routines using this hash. (Bug #14381701)

References: See also Bug #13864642.

Replication: The names of the binary log and relay log Performance Schema mutexes were mistakenly changed to names that differed from the MySQL 5.5 names. The names have been reverted to those used in MySQL 5.5. (Bug #14366314)

Replication: When setting up replication between a master and a slave which was using --master-info-repository=TABLE, the mysql.slave_master_info table was not updated the first time that START SLAVE was issued. (Bug #14298750)

References: See also Bug #13858841.

Replication: The --disable-gtid-unsafe-statements option caused any nontransactional DML statement involving temporary tables to be rejected with an error even with binlog_format set explicitly to ROW, in spite of the fact that they are not written to the binary log in this case. Now, such statements are allowed when using row-based logging, as long as any nontransactional tables affected by the statements are also temporary tables. (Bug #14272627)

Replication: When using multi-threaded slaves, --replicate-rewrite-db rules were not honored while assigning databases to slave worker threads, which could cause statements to be executed out of order when this option was used. This could result in a slave that was inconsistent with the master. (Bug #14232958)

Replication: mysql_upgrade failed when the server was running with gtid_mode=ON and --disable-gtid-unsafe-statements because the MySQL system tables are stored using MyISAM. This problem is fixed by changing the default logging behavior for mysql_upgrade; logging is now disabled by default. (Actions taken by mysql_upgrade depend on the server version, and thus should not be replicated to slaves.) To enable logging, you can execute mysql_upgrade using the --write-binlog option. (Bug #14221043, Bug #13833710)

Replication: The initialization and usage of a number of internal programming objects relating to GTIDs did not work properly with PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA. (Bug #14152637)

Replication: The scheduler for multi-threaded slaves did not take into account databases implicitly involved in operations through foreign key dependencies, which could lead to a temporary loss of consistency on the slave. To avoid this problem, replication events on the master that invoke foreign key relationships between table is different databases are now marked in such a way that they can be scheduled sequentially to avoid race conditions and thereby inconsistency. However, this can adversely affect performance. (Bug #14092635)

Replication: When using a multi-threaded slave, the repository type employed for the relay log info log was not always used automatically for worker repositories as expected. (Bug #13804728)

References: See also Bug #14550905, Bug #14550945, Bug #14578740.

Replication: It was possible for the multi-threaded slave coordinator to leak memory when the slave was stopped while waiting for the next successful job to be added to the worker queue. (Bug #13635612)

Replication: The Master_id column of the mysql.slave_master_info and mysql.slave_relay_log_info tables showed the slave's server ID instead of the master's server ID. (Bug #12344346)

Replication: Statements such as UPDATE ... WHERE primary_key_column = constant LIMIT 1 are flagged as unsafe for statement-based logging, despite the fact that such statements are actually safe. In cases where a great many such statements were run, this could lead to disk space becoming exhausted do to the number of such false warnings being logged. To prevent this from happening, a warning suppression mechanism is introduced. This warning suppression acts as follows: Whenever the 50 most recent ER_BINLOG_UNSAFE_STATEMENT warnings have been generated more than 50 times in any 50-second period, warning suppression is enabled. When activated, this causes such warnings not to be written to the error log; instead, for each 50 warnings of this type, a note is written to the error log stating The last warning was repeated N times in last S seconds. This continues as long as the 50 most recent such warnings were issued in 50 seconds or less; once the number of warnings has decreased below this threshold, the warnings are once again logged normally.

The fix for this issue does not affect how these warnings are reported to MySQL clients; a warning is still sent to the client for each statement that generates the warning. This fix also does not make any changes in how the safety of any statement for statement-based logging is determined. (Bug #11759333, Bug #51638)

References: See also Bug #11751521, Bug #42415.

ALTER TABLE ... DROP FOREIGN KEY that did not name the foreign key to be dropped caused a server crash. Now the foreign key name is required. (Bug #14530380)

In-place ALTER TABLE operations for InnoDB tables could raise an assertion attempting to acquire a lock. (Bug #14516798)

mysql_secure_installation did not work if old_passwords was set to 2 (use the sha256_password authentication plugin). (Bug #14506073)

Index condition pushdown in conjunction with descending index range scan caused a performance regression. (Bug #14503142)

Item_cache_str::save_in_field() dereferenced a null pointer if the cached value was NULL. (Bug #14501403)

A query with GROUP BY ... WITH ROLLUP comparing a grouping column using the IN operator caused an assertion to be raised. (Bug #14500792)

In debug builds, with semi-join enabled, GROUP BY ... WITH ROLLUP that did not use a temporary table could cause a server crash. (Bug #14499409)

An assertion was raised when using the join cache for a query that contained an IN subquery query with a subquery that is expected to return a single row but returned more than one. (Bug #14499331)

The optimizer could raise an assertion when grouping and sorting in descending order on an indexed column. (Bug #14498999)

Polygons with holes could cause a server crash for spatial operations. (Bug #14497827)

For complex conditions, the optimizer could produce an incorrect range construction and return incorrect query results. (Bug #14497598)

In mysql_com.h, the CLIENT_CONNECT_ATTRS and CLIENT_PLUGIN_AUTH_LENENC_CLIENT_DATA symbols incorrectly were defined as the same value. (Bug #14482472)

The Threads_running status variable was not updated properly. (Bug #14471011)

GROUP_CONCAT() with DISTINCT or ORDER BY on GEOMETRY values caused a server crash. (Bug #14468106)

With a password policy of STRONG and a password of 100 characters or more, VALIDATE_PASSWORD_STRENGTH() could cause a server crash. (Bug #14458293)

PASSWORD(NULL) and OLD_PASSWORD(NULL) could cause a server crash. (Bug #14458217)

The explicit_defaults_for_timestamp system variable was not visible (for example, with SHOW VARIABLES), so it was not possible to make runtime decisions based on its value. (Bug #14409088)

When resolving outer fields, Item_field::fix_outer_fields() creates new Item_refs for each execution of a prepared statement, so these must be allocated in the runtime memroot. The memroot switching before resolving JOIN::having caused these to be allocated in the statement root, leaking memory for each prepared statement execution. (Bug #14409015)

An ALTER TABLE for an InnoDB table that attempted to add an index and also change the nullability of a column participating in that index raised an assertion. (Bug #14404635)

For debug builds, if one session used a DDL statement to alter an InnoDB table, another session could raise an assertion failure if it had a pre-alter consistent snapshot of the table. (Bug #14365043)

The result set could contain extra rows for queries on MyISAM tables that used the SQL_BUFFER_RESULT modifier and a subquery. (Bug #14348858)

The --server-public-key option for mysql and mysqltest has been renamed to --server-public-key-path to reflect that it refers to a file and for consistency with related server-side variable naming. Also, this option now is available only if MySQL was built with OpenSSL (not yaSSL) because yaSSL does not support the necessary RSA encryption. (Bug #14348721)

The RPM spec file now also runs the test suite on the new binaries, before packaging them. (Bug #14318456)

Inside a stored program, references to stored program variables in XML functions such as ExtractValue() failed after the first execution of the stored program. (Bug #14317442)

The Performance Schema used listed the nanosecond timer by default for stages and statements in the setup_timers table. But if this timer was not available on a given platform (such as Windows), timing for stages and statements failed to work. Now the idle, stage, and statement timers used the preferred timers if they are available, but alternate timers if not. (Bug #14298586)

Some queries for which the optimizer used index condition pushdown in conjunction with ref access could be very slow if the index was read in descending order. (Bug #14287654, Bug #14503142)

Queries executed using MaterializeScan semi-join strategy and a materialized subquery could return too many rows. (Bug #14272788)

A LooseScan semi-join could return duplicate rows from the outer table. (Bug #14271594)

The Performance Schema generated different digests for a statement before and after selecting a database. (Bug #14256311)

The Performance Schema digest-generation code could fail with a race condition. (Bug #14250296)

The server did not build with gcc 4.7. (Bug #14238406)

An optimizer trace could crash attempting to print freed subquery items. (Bug #14238404)

With semi-join optimization enabled, subqueries in the WITH CHECK OPTION clause of view definitions were evaluated incorrectly. (Bug #14230177)

ALTER SERVER, CREATE SERVER, and DROP SERVER with an empty server name caused a server crash. (Bug #14220942)

ALTER TABLE with DISCARD TABLESPACE or IMPORT TABLESPACE did not acquire a sufficiently strong metadata lock to prevent a concurrent ALTER TABLE statement with ADD or DROP from modifying the tablespace. This could result in warnings or raise an assertion. (Bug #14213236)

WEIGHT_STRING() could crash if given a bad flags argument. (Bug #14211236)

REQUIRE ISSUER clauses for GRANT statements were not rewritten properly for logging and caused a server crash. (Bug #14211069)

If a call to socket() failed, the Performance Schema created instrumentation for it anyway. (Bug #14209598)

Some queries with a HAVING clause with a function that referred to a function in the WHERE list with a subquery as parameter caused an assertion to be raised. (Bug #14209318)

String allocation could cause Valgrind warnings. (Bug #14201818)

For queries that used range access, the optimizer could read uninitialized data, resulting in Valgrind warnings. (Bug #14200538)

mysql_upgrade did not set the STATS_PERSISTENT=0 table option for InnoDB tables in the mysql database. (Bug #14195056)

In debug builds, the optimizer raised an unnecessary (too strict) assertion about MyISAM key lengths. (Bug #14179461)

Join processing could attempt to clean up a temporary table that had not been instantiated, causing a server crash. (Bug #14168270)

Incorrect internal conversion of string-format dates could cause a server crash. (Bug #14167911)

For JSON-format EXPLAIN statements, derived tables were not handled properly and caused a server crash. (Bug #14167499)

In debug builds, comparisons for strings that had the ucs2_unicode_520_ci collation could raise an assertion. (Bug #14161973)

In-place ALTER TABLE did not work for a table with a GEOMETRY column, even if the alteration did not involve that column. (Bug #14140927)

For nonexistent files, the Performance Schema file I/O instrumentation sometimes did extra work or was subject to instrumentation leaks. (Bug #14113704)

Small sort_buffer_size values could result in a server crash. (Bug #14111180)

Within a trigger, references to a temporary table used during the query execution process could end up pointing to nonexisting fields on subsequent executions, causing a server crash. (Bug #14105951)

Negative values could be erroneously reported for some columns in the buffer_pool_pages_in_flush row in the information_schema.innodb_metrics table. (Bug #14090287)

JSON-format EXPLAIN statements could raise an assertion or cause the server to hang for statements with an impossible-WHERE clause and subqueries in ORDER BY or GROUP BY clauses. (Bug #14084642)

The FirstMatch strategy for semi-joins produced incorrect results for some queries with multiple inner tables. (Bug #14081638)

With materialization and semi-joins enabled, some queries with an OR condition could produce incorrect results. (Bug #14075016)

In-place ALTER TABLE did not handle autopartitioning storage engines such as NDB. (Bug #14063233)

RELEASE SAVEPOINT did not have sufficient checks for the XA transaction state to prevent a savepoint from being released while the transaction was in a prepared state. (Bug #14062726)

Improper error handling for CREATE SERVER, DROP SERVER, and ALTER SERVER could raise an assertion. (Bug #14061851)

Improper initialization by spatial functions could cause a server crash the first time they were invoked following server startup. (Bug #14015762)

For JSON-format EXPLAIN statements, improper handling of subqueries could cause an assertion to be raised. (Bug #13956275)

SELECT on a partitioned table that used a join buffer could cause a server crash. (Bug #13949549)

Polygon sorting by spatial functions could be done incorrectly and cause a server crash. (Bug #13938850)

For DELETE statements, WHERE clause row retrieval that should access only the index tree could raise an assertion. (Bug #13919180)

The argument for LIMIT must be an integer, but if the argument was given by a placeholder in a prepared statement, the server did not reject noninteger values such as '5'. (Bug #13868860)

Some arguments could cause ST_Buffer() to crash. (Bug #13832749, Bug #13833019)

Queries that used the ST_Contains and Within() functions yielded incorrect results when argument columns had a spatial index. (Bug #13813064)

CHECK TABLE and REPAIR TABLE could crash if a key definition differed in the .frm and .MYI files of a MyISAM table. Now the server produces an error. (Bug #13555854)

The optimizer used a full index scan for cases for which a loose index scan was preferable. (Bug #13464493)

References: This bug is a regression of Bug #12540545.

COUNT(DISTINCT(SELECT 1)) could be evaluated incorrectly if the optimizer used Loose Index Scan. (Bug #13444084)

References: See also Bug #13813126.

A query for a FEDERATED table could return incorrect results when the underlying table had a compound index on two columns and the query included an AND condition on the columns. (Bug #12876932)

In debug builds, an InnoDB assertion was overly aggressive about prohibiting an open range. (Bug #66513, Bug #14547952)

Starting the server with --bind-address=* is supposed to cause the server to accept TCP/IP connections on all server host IPv6 and IPv4 interfaces if the server host supports IPv6, or TCP/IP connections on all IPv4 addresses otherwise. But the server sometimes did not correctly detect when IPv6 was not supported, and failed to start. (Bug #66303, Bug #14483430)

Queries with ALL over a UNION could return an incorrect result if the UNION result contained NULL. (Bug #65902, Bug #14329235)

In-place ALTER TABLE incorrectly handled indexes using key prefixes by using a copy algorithm. (Bug #65865, Bug #14304973)

If the server was started with secure_auth disabled, it did not produce a warning that this is a deprecated setting. (Bug #65462, Bug #14136937)

The ST_Contains() and Within() functions yielded an incorrect result when used on a column with a SPATIAL index. (Bug #65348, Bug #14096685)

For some queries, the optimizer used index_merge access method when this was more work than ref access. (Bug #65274, Bug #14120360)

The GeomFromWKB() function did not return NULL if the SRID argument was NULL, and non-NULL SRID values were not included in the converted result. (Bug #65094, Bug #13998446)

Internal temporary MyISAM tables were unnecessarily registered in an open-table list protected by a global mutex, causing excessive mutex contention. (Bug #65077, Bug #14000697)

In prepared statements, MYSQL_TYPE_DATE parameters when converted to an integer were handled as MYSQL_TYPE_DATETIME values and the conversion produced incorrect results. (Bug #64667, Bug #13904869)

“Illegal mix of collation” errors were returned for some operations between strings that should have been legal. (Bug #64555, Bug #13812875)

COUNT(DISTINCT(IF ...)) could be evaluated incorrectly if the optimizer used Loose Index Scan. (Bug #64445, Bug #13813126)

References: See also Bug #13444084.

The argument to the --ssl-key option was not verified to exist and be a valid key. The resulting connection used SSL, but the key was not used. (Bug #62743, Bug #13115401)

With statement-based binary logging, stored routines that accessed but did not modify tables took too strong a lock for the tables, unnecessarily blocking other statements that also accessed those tables. (Bug #62540, Bug #13036505)

mysqlhotcopy failed for databases containing views. (Bug #62472, Bug #13006947, Bug #12992993)

Adding a LIMIT clause to a query containing GROUP BY and ORDER BY could cause the optimizer to choose an incorrect index for processing the query, and return more rows than required. (Bug #54599, Bug #11762052)

mysqlbinlog did not accept input on the standard input when the standard input was a pipe. (Bug #49336, Bug #11757312)

There was a performance regression for queries that used GROUP BY and COUNT(DISTINCT). (Bug #49111, Bug #11757108)

mysqldump could dump views and the tables on which they depend in such an order that errors occurred when the dump file was reloaded. (Bug #44939, Bug #11753490)