The list below details the changes in specific options/variables within MySQL 5.0
Compression
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.16)
Default is now not specified, minimum is not specified, maximum is not specified
Handler_prepare
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.3)
Default is now not specified, minimum is not specified, maximum is not specified
Last_query_cost
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.7)
Default is now -1, minimum is not specified, maximum is not specified
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.7)
Default is now not specified, minimum is not specified, maximum is not specified
concurrent_insert
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.5)
Default is now TRUE
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.6)
Default is now 1, minimum is not specified, maximum is not specified
connect_timeout
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.51)
Default is now 5, minimum is not specified, maximum is not specified
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.52)
Default is now 10, minimum is not specified, maximum is not specified
default-character-set
Deprecated from version 5.0
default-table-type
Deprecated and replaced with default-storage-engine
from version 5.0
engine-condition-pushdown
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.3)
Default is now OFF
innodb_log_arch_dir
Deprecated from version 5.0.24
innodb_safe_binlog
Deprecated from version 5.0.3
innodb_thread_concurrency
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.9)
Default is now 20, minimum is not specified, maximum is not specified
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.19)
Default is now 8, minimum is not specified, maximum is not specified
innodb_thread_sleep_delay
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.18)
Default is now not specified, minimum is not specified, maximum is not specified
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.20)
Default is now not specified, minimum is not specified, maximum is not specified
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.21)
Default is now 8, minimum is not specified, maximum is not specified
log-bin-trust-routine-creators
Deprecated and replaced with log-bin-trust-function-creators
from version 5.0.16
log-update
Deprecated and replaced with log-bin
from version 5.0
long_query_time
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.20)
Default is now 10, minimum is not specified, maximum is not specified
myisam_data_pointer_size
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.5)
Default is now 4, minimum is not specified, maximum is not specified
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.6)
Default is now 6, minimum is not specified, maximum is not specified
myisam_max_extra_sort_file_size
Deprecated from version 5.0.6
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.6)
Default is now 2147483648, minimum is not specified, maximum is not specified
ndb-nodeid
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.45)
Default is now not specified, minimum is not specified, maximum is not specified
ndb_autoincrement_prefetch_sz
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.54)
Default is now 32, minimum is not specified, maximum is not specified
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.56)
Default is now 1, minimum is not specified, maximum is not specified
range_alloc_block_size
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.54)
Default is now 4096, minimum is not specified, maximum is not specified
Value parameters were changed from version (5.0.54)
Default is now 4096, minimum is not specified, maximum is not specified
safe-mode
Deprecated from version 5.0
set-variable
Deprecated from version 5.0
sql_log_update
Deprecated and replaced with sql_log_bin
from version 5.0
use-symbolic-links
Deprecated and replaced with symbolic-links
from version 5.0
warnings
Deprecated and replaced with log-warnings
from version 5.0