Warning: Incompatible change! mysqlperl is now from Msql-Mysql-modules. This means that connect() now takes host, database, user, password arguments! The old version took host, database, password, user.

Allow DATE '1997-01-01', TIME '12:10:10' and TIMESTAMP '1997-01-01 12:10:10' formats required by SQL-99. Warning: Incompatible change! This has the unfortunate side-effect that you no longer can have columns named DATE, TIME or TIMESTAMP. :( Old columns can still be accessed through tablename.columnname!)

Changed Makefiles to hopefully work better with BSD systems. Also, manual.dvi is now included in the distribution to avoid having stupid make programs trying to rebuild it.

readline library upgraded to version 2.1.

A new sortorder german-1. That is a normal ISO-Latin1 with a german sort order.

Perl DBI/DBD is now included in the distribution. DBI is now the recommended way to connect to MySQL from Perl.

New portable benchmark suite with DBD, with test results from mSQL 2.0.3, MySQL, PostgreSQL 6.2.1 and Solid server 2.2.

crash-me is now included with the benchmarks; this is a Perl program designed to find as many limits as possible in an SQL server. Tested with mSQL, PostgreSQL, Solid and MySQL.

Fixed bug in range-optimiser that crashed MySQL on some queries.

Table and column name completion for mysql command-line tool, by Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans.

Added new command REPLACE that works like INSERT but replaces conflicting records with the new record. REPLACE INTO TABLE ... SELECT ... works also.

Added new commands CREATE DATABASE db_name and DROP DATABASE db_name.

Added RENAME option to ALTER TABLE: ALTER TABLE name RENAME TO new_name.

make_binary_distribution now includes libgcc.a in libmysqlclient.a. This should make linking work for people who don't have gcc.

Changed net_write() to my_net_write() because of a name conflict with Sybase.

New function DAYOFWEEK() compatible with ODBC.

Stack checking and bison memory overrun checking to make MySQL safer with weird queries.