Cleaned up NULL handling for default
            values in DESCRIBE table_name.
          
            Fixed truncate() to round up negative
            values to the nearest integer.
          
            Changed --chroot=path option to execute
            chroot() immediately after all options
            have been parsed.
          
            Don't allow database names that contain
            ‘\’.
          
            lower_case_table_names now also affects
            database names.
          
            Added XOR operator (logical and bitwise
            XOR) with ^ as a
            synonym for bitwise XOR.
          
            Added function IS_FREE_LOCK("lock_name").
            Based on code contributed by Hartmut Holzgraefe
            <hartmut@six.de>.
          
            Removed mysql_ssl_clear() from C API, as
            it was not needed.
          
            DECIMAL and NUMERIC
            types can now read exponential numbers.
          
            Added SHA1() function to calculate 160
            bit hash value as described in RFC 3174 (Secure Hash
            Algorithm). This function can be considered a
            cryptographically more secure equivalent of
            MD5(). See
            Secção 6.3.6.2, “Funções Diversas”.
          
            Added AES_ENCRYPT() and
            AES_DECRYPT() functions to perform
            encryption according to AES standard (Rijndael). See
            Secção 6.3.6.2, “Funções Diversas”.
          
            Added --single-transaction option to
            mysqldump, allowing a consistent dump of
            InnoDB tables. See
            Secção 4.9.7, “mysqldump, Descarregando a Estrutura de Tabelas e
        Dados”.
          
            Fixed bug in innodb_log_group_home_dir in
            SHOW VARIABLES.
          
Fixed a bug in optimiser with merge tables when non-unique values are used in summing up (causing crashes).
Fixed a bug in optimiser when a range specified makes index grouping impossible (causing crashes).
            Fixed a rare bug when FULLTEXT index is
            present and no tables are used.
          
            Added privileges CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES,
            EXECUTE, LOCK TABLES,
            REPLICATION CLIENT, REPLICATION
            SLAVE, SHOW DATABASES and
            SUPER. To use these, you must have run
            the mysql_fix_privilege_tables script
            after upgrading.
          
Fixed query cache align data bug.
Fixed mutex bug in replication when reading from master fails.
            Added missing mutex in TRUNCATE TABLE;
            This fixes some core dump/hangup problems when using
            TRUNCATE TABLE.
          
            Fixed bug in multiple-table DELETE when
            optimiser uses only indexes.
          
            Fixed that ALTER TABLE table_name RENAME
            new_table_name is as fast as RENAME
            TABLE.
          
            Fixed bug in GROUP BY with two or more
            fields, where at least one field can contain
            NULL values.
          
            Use Turbo Boyer-Moore algorithm to speed
            up LIKE "%keyword%" searches.
          
            Fixed bug in DROP DATABASE with symlink.
          
            Fixed crash in REPAIR ... USE_FRM.
          
            Fixed bug in EXPLAIN with LIMIT
            offset != 0.
          
            Fixed bug in phrase operator "..." in
            boolean full-text search.
          
            Fixed bug that caused duplicated rows when using truncation
            operator * in boolean full-text search.
          
            Fixed bug in truncation operator of boolean full-text search
            (incorrect results when there are only
            +word*s in the query).
          
            Fixed bug in boolean full-text search that caused a crash
            when an identical MATCH expression that
            did not use an index appeared twice.
          
            Query cache is now automatically disabled in
            mysqldump.
          
Fixed problem on Windows 98 that made sending of results very slow.
Boolean full-text search weighting scheme changed to something more reasonable.
            Fixed bug in boolean full-text search that caused MySQL to
            ignore queries of ft_min_word_len
            characters.
          
Boolean full-text search now supports ``phrase searches''.
            New configure option --without-query-cache.
          
Memory allocation strategy for ``root memory'' changed. Block size now grows with number of allocated blocks.
            INET_NTOA() now returns
            NULL if you give it an argument that is
            too large (greater than the value corresponding to
            255.255.255.255).
          
            Fix SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS to work with
            UNIONs. It will work only if the first
            SELECT has this option and if there is
            global LIMIT for the entire statement.
            For the moment, this requires using parentheses for
            individual SELECT queries within the
            statement.
          
            Fixed bug in SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS and
            LIMIT.
          
            Don't give an error for CREATE TABLE ...(...
            VARCHAR(0)).
          
            Fixed SIGINT and
            SIGQUIT problems in
            mysql.cc on Linux with some
            glibc versions.
          
            Fixed bug in convert.cc, which is
            caused by having an incorrect
            net_store_length() linked in the
            CONVERT::store() method.
          
            DOUBLE and FLOAT
            columns now honor the UNSIGNED flag on
            storage.
          
            InnoDB now retains foreign key
            constraints through ALTER TABLE and
            CREATE/DROP INDEX.
          
            InnoDB now allows foreign key constraints
            to be added through the ALTER TABLE
            syntax.
          
            InnoDB tables can now be set to
            automatically grow in size (autoextend).
          
            Added --ignore-lines=n option to
            mysqlimport. This has the same effect as
            the IGNORE n LINES clause for
            LOAD DATA.
          
            Fixed bug in UNION with last offset being
            transposed to total result set.
          
            REPAIR ... USE_FRM added.
          
            Fixed that DEFAULT_SELECT_LIMIT is always
            imposed on UNION result set.
          
            Fixed that some SELECT options can appear
            only in the first SELECT.
          
            Fixed bug with LIMIT with
            UNION, where last select is in the
            braces.
          
            Fixed that full-text works fine with
            UNION operations.
          
Fixed bug with indexless boolean full-text search.
            Fixed bug that sometimes appeared when full-text search was
            used with const tables.
          
            Fixed incorrect error value when doing a
            SELECT with an empty
            HEAP table.
          
            Use ORDER BY column DESC now sorts
            NULL values first. (In other words,
            NULL values sort first in all cases,
            whether or not DESC is specified.) This
            is changed back in 4.0.10.
          
            Fixed bug in WHERE key_name='constant' ORDER BY
            key_name DESC.
          
            Fixed bug in SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY
            DESC optimization.
          
            Fixed bug in ... HAVING 'GROUP_FUNCTION'(xxx) IS
            [NOT] NULL.
          
Fixed bug in truncation operator for boolean full-text search.
            Allow value of --user=# option for
            mysqld to be specified as a numeric user
            ID.
          
            Fixed a bug where SQL_CALC_ROWS returned
            an incorrect value when used with one table and
            ORDER BY and with
            InnoDB tables.
          
            Fixed that SELECT 0 LIMIT 0 doesn't hang
            thread.
          
            Fixed some problems with USE/IGNORE INDEX
            when using many keys with the same start column.
          
            Don't use table scan with BerkeleyDB and
            InnoDB tables when we can use an index
            that covers the whole row.
          
            Optimized InnoDB sort-buffer handling to
            take less memory.
          
            Fixed bug in multi-table DELETE and
            InnoDB tables.
          
            Fixed problem with TRUNCATE and
            InnoDB tables that produced the error
            Can't execute the given command because you have
            active locked tables or an active transaction.
          
            Added NO_UNSIGNED_SUBTRACTION to the set
            of flags that may be specified with the
            --sql-mode option for
            mysqld. It disables unsigned arithmetic
            rules when it comes to subtraction. (This will make MySQL
            4.0 behave more like 3.23 with UNSIGNED
            columns).
          
            The result returned for all bit functions
            (|, <<, ...) is
            now of type unsigned integer.
          
            Added detection of nan values in
            MyISAM to make it possible to repair
            tables with nan in float or double
            columns.
          
            Fixed new bug in myisamchk where it
            didn't correctly update number of ``parts'' in the
            MyISAM index file.
          
            Changed to use autoconf 2.52 (from
            autoconf 2.13).
          
Fixed optimization problem where the MySQL Server was in ``preparing'' state for a long time when selecting from an empty table which had contained a lot of rows.
            Fixed bug in complicated join with const
            tables. This fix also improves performance a bit when
            referring to another table from a const
            table.
          
            First pre-version of multi-table UPDATE
            statement.
          
            Fixed bug in multi-table DELETE.
          
            Fixed bug in SELECT CONCAT(argument_list) ... GROUP
            BY 1.
          
            INSERT ... SELECT did a full rollback in
            case of an error. Fixed so that we only roll back the last
            statement in the current transaction.
          
Fixed bug with empty expression for boolean full-text search.
            Fixed core dump bug in updating full-text key from/to
            NULL.
          
            ODBC compatibility: Added BIT_LENGTH()
            function.
          
            Fixed core dump bug in GROUP BY BINARY
            column.
          
            Added support for NULL keys in
            HEAP tables.
          
            Use index for ORDER BY in queries of
            type: SELECT * FROM t WHERE key_part1=1 ORDER BY
            key_part1 DESC,key_part2 DESC
          
            Fixed bug in FLUSH QUERY CACHE.
          
            Added CAST() and
            CONVERT() functions. The
            CAST and CONVERT
            functions are nearly identical and mainly useful when you
            want to create a column with a specific type in a
            CREATE ... SELECT statement. For more
            information, read Secção 6.3.5, “Funções de Conversão”.
          
            CREATE ... SELECT on
            DATE and TIME
            functions now create columns of the expected type.
          
Changed order in which keys are created in tables.
            Added new columns Null and
            Index_type to SHOW
            INDEX output.
          
            Added --no-beep and
            --prompt options to
            mysql command-line client.
          
New feature: management of user resources.
GRANT ... WITH MAX_QUERIES_PER_HOUR N1
               MAX_UPDATES_PER_HOUR N2
               MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR N3;
            Added mysql_secure_installation to the
            scripts/ directory.
          
This is a translation of the MySQL Reference Manual that can be found at dev.mysql.com. The original Reference Manual is in English, and this translation is not necessarily as up to date as the English version.

