Fixed that databasename works as second argument to mysqlhotcopy.

The values for the UMASK and UMASK_DIR environment variables now can be specified in octal by beginning the value with a zero.

Added RIGHT JOIN. This makes RIGHT a reserved word.

Added @@IDENTITY as a synonym for LAST_INSERT_ID(). (This is for MSSQL compatibility.)

Fixed a bug in myisamchk and REPAIR TABLE when using FULLTEXT index.

LOAD DATA INFILE now works with FIFOs. (Patch by Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford.)

FLUSH LOGS broke replication if you specified a log name with an explicit extension as the value of the log-bin option.

Fixed a bug in MyISAM with packed multiple-part keys.

Fixed crash when using CHECK TABLE on Windows.

Fixed a bug where FULLTEXT index always used the koi8_ukr character set.

Fixed privilege checking for CHECK TABLE.

The MyISAM repair/reindex code didn't use the --tmpdir option for its temporary files.

Added BACKUP TABLE and RESTORE TABLE.

Fixed core dump on CHANGE MASTER TO when the slave did not have the master to start with.

Fixed incorrect Time in the processlist for Connect of the slave thread.

The slave now logs when it connects to the master.

Fixed a core dump bug when doing FLUSH MASTER if you didn't specify a filename argument to --log-bin.

Added missing ha_berkeley.x files to the MySQL Windows distribution.

Fixed some mutex bugs in the log code that could cause thread blocks if new log files couldn't be created.

Added lock time and number of selected processed rows to slow query log.

Added --memlock option to mysqld to lock mysqld in memory on systems with the mlockall() call (as in Solaris).

HEAP tables didn't use keys properly. (Bug from 3.23.23.)

Added better support for MERGE tables (keys, mapping, creation, documentation...). See Section 14.3, “The MERGE Storage Engine”.

Fixed bug in mysqldump from 3.23 which caused some CHAR columns not to be quoted.

Merged analyze, check, optimize and repair code.

OPTIMIZE TABLE is now mapped to REPAIR TABLE with statistics and sorting of the index tree. This means that for the moment it only works on MyISAM tables.

Added a pre-alloced block to root_malloc to get fewer mallocs.

Added a lot of new statistics variables.

Fixed ORDER BY bug with BDB tables.

Removed warning that mysqld couldn't remove the .pid file under Windows.

Changed --log-isam to log MyISAM tables instead of isam tables.

Fixed CHECK TABLE to work on Windows.

Added file mutexes to make pwrite() safe on Windows.