mysql-5.1 (5.1.61-1) stable-security; urgency=high
Due to the non-disclosure of security patch information from Oracle,
we are forced to ship this upstream version update of MySQL 5.1 into
all releases that carry MySQL 5.1. There are several known incompatible
changes, which are listed below, taken from dev.mysql.com's changelogs,
available here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-x.html
5.1.51:
Incompatible Change: Previously, if you flushed the logs using FLUSH
LOGS or mysqladmin flush-logs and mysqld was writing the error log to
a file (for example, if it was started with the --log-error option),
it renamed the current log file with the suffix -old, then created a
new empty log file. This had the problem that a second log-flushing
operation thus caused the original error log file to be lost unless
you saved it under a different name. For example, you could use the
following commands to save the file:
.
shell> mysqladmin flush-logs
shell> mv host_name.err-old backup-directory
.
To avoid the preceding file-loss problem, renaming no longer
occurs. The server merely closes and reopens the log file. To rename
the file, you can do so manually before flushing. Then flushing the
logs reopens a new file with the original file name. For example, you
can rename the file and create a new one using the following commands:
.
shell> mv host_name.err host_name.err-old
shell> mysqladmin flush-logs
shell> mv host_name.err-old backup-directory
.
(Bug #29751)
.
References: See also Bug #56821.
5.1.55:
Incompatible Change: When auto_increment_increment is greater than
one, values generated by a bulk insert that reaches the maximum
column value could wrap around rather producing an overflow error.
.
