This is a release announcement for mysql 5.0.89 on all distros. It is primarily a bugfix update
Changelog:
Bugs fixed:
* Privileges for stored routines were ignored for mixed-case routine names. (Bug#48872) See also Bug#41049.
* Building MySQL on Fedora Core 12 64-bit would due to errors in comp_err. (Bug#48864)
* DISTINCT was ignored for queries with GROUP BY WITH ROLLUP and only const tables. (Bug#48475)
* Loose index scan was inappropriately chosen for some WHERE conditions. (Bug#48472)
* A bad typecast could cause query execution to allocate large amounts of memory. (Bug#48458)
* mysql_secure_installation did not work on Solaris. (Bug#48086)
* When running mysql_secure_installation, the command would fail if the root password contained multiple spaces, \, # or quote characters. (Bug#48031)
* InnoDB did not disallow creation of an index with the name GEN_CLUST_INDEX, which is used internally. (Bug#46000)
* Use of InnoDB monitoring (SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS or one of the InnoDB Monitor tables) could cause a server crash due to invalid access to a shared variable in a concurrent environment. (Bug#38883)
* Output from mysql --html did not encode the <, >, or & characters. (Bug#27884)
To upgrade:
yum upgrade mysql