This section does not apply to MySQL Enterprise Server users.

This appendix lists the changes from version to version in MySQL Community Server.

The Release Notes are updated as new bugs and features are incorporated, so that everybody can follow the development process.

Note that we tend to update the manual at the same time we make changes to MySQL. If you find a recent version of MySQL listed here that you can't find on our download page (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/), it means that the version has not yet been released (and will normally be marked so in the appropriate Release Note section).

The date mentioned with a release version is the date of the last change done internally at MySQL AB (the BitKeeper ChangeSet) on which the release was based, not the date when the packages were made available. The binaries are usually made available a few days after the date of the tagged ChangeSet, because building and testing all packages takes some time.