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ChangeSet
  1.3524 05/09/09 15:32:01 paul@stripped +3 -0
  news-5.0.xml, news-4.1.xml:
    Document bugfix. (Bug#12863)
    Document bugfix. (Bug#12101, Bug#12102)
  news-5.0.xml, news-4.1.xml, news-4.0.xml:
    Document security fix
  news-5.0.xml, news-4.1.xml:
    Document bugfix. (Bug#7142, Bug#12817)

  refman-common/news-5.0.xml
    1.164 05/09/09 15:27:38 paul@stripped +7 -0
    Document bugfix. (Bug#12863)

  refman-common/news-4.1.xml
    1.89 05/09/09 15:27:38 paul@stripped +7 -0
    Document bugfix. (Bug#12863)

  refman-common/news-5.0.xml
    1.163 05/09/09 15:22:06 paul@stripped +11 -0
    Document bugfix. (Bug#12101, Bug#12102)

  refman-common/news-4.1.xml
    1.88 05/09/09 15:22:06 paul@stripped +11 -0
    Document bugfix. (Bug#12101, Bug#12102)

  refman-common/news-5.0.xml
    1.162 05/09/09 15:12:21 paul@stripped +9 -0
    Document security fix

  refman-common/news-4.1.xml
    1.87 05/09/09 15:12:21 paul@stripped +10 -1
    Document security fix

  refman-common/news-4.0.xml
    1.30 05/09/09 15:12:21 paul@stripped +9 -0
    Document security fix

  refman-common/news-5.0.xml
    1.161 05/09/09 14:48:56 paul@stripped +7 -0
    Document bugfix. (Bug#7142, Bug#12817)

  refman-common/news-4.1.xml
    1.86 05/09/09 14:48:56 paul@stripped +14 -1
    Document bugfix. (Bug#7142, Bug#12817)

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--- 1.29/refman-common/news-4.0.xml	2005-09-09 13:38:27 -05:00
+++ 1.30/refman-common/news-4.0.xml	2005-09-09 15:12:21 -05:00
@@ -289,6 +289,15 @@
 
       <listitem>
         <para>
+          Security improvement: Applied a patch to fix a UDF
+          library-loading vulnerability that could result in a buffer
+          overflow and code execution.
+          (<ulink
url="http://www.appsecinc.com/resources/alerts/mysql/2005-002.html"/>)
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
           Added <option>--with-big-tables</option> compilation option to
           <command>configure</command>. (Previously it was necessary to
           pass <option>-DBIG_TABLES</option> to the compiler manually in

--- 1.85/refman-common/news-4.1.xml	2005-09-09 13:38:27 -05:00
+++ 1.89/refman-common/news-4.1.xml	2005-09-09 15:27:38 -05:00
@@ -180,6 +180,35 @@
 
       <listitem>
         <para>
+          <literal>GROUP_CONCAT()</literal> ignored an empty string if
+          it was the first value to occur in the result. (Bug #12863)
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Outer join elimination was erroneously applied for some
+          queries that used a <literal>NOT BETWEEN</literal> condition,
+          an
+         
<literal>IN(<replaceable>value_list</replaceable>)</literal>
+          condition, or an <literal>IF()</literal> condition. (Bug
+          #12101, Bug #12102)
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Reverted a change introduced in MySQL 4.1.13 to fix a problem
+          of <literal>SHOW FIELDS</literal> truncating the
+          <literal>TYPE</literal> column to 40 characters. This fix was
+          reverted for MySQL 4.1 because it broke existing applications.
+          The fix will be made to MySQL 5.0 instead (5.0.13). (Bug
+          #7142, Bug #12817)
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
           On HP-UX 11.x (PA-RISC), the <option>-L</option> option caused
           <command>mysqlimport</command> to crash. (Bug #12958)
         </para>
@@ -1038,7 +1067,7 @@
     <itemizedlist>
 
       <remark>
-        Leave the security fix item as first in the list so it stands
+        Leave the security fix items as first in the list so they stands
         out better
       </remark>
 
@@ -1060,6 +1089,15 @@
 
       <listitem>
         <para>
+          Security improvement: Applied a patch to fix a UDF
+          library-loading vulnerability that could result in a buffer
+          overflow and code execution.
+          (<ulink
url="http://www.appsecinc.com/resources/alerts/mysql/2005-002.html"/>)
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
           Added <option>--add-drop-database</option> option to
           <literal>mysqldump</literal>. (Bug #3716)
         </para>
@@ -1259,7 +1297,9 @@
       <listitem>
         <para>
           <literal>SHOW FIELDS</literal> truncated the
-          <literal>TYPE</literal> column to 40 characters. (Bug #7142)
+          <literal>TYPE</literal> column to 40 characters. (Bug #7142,
+          Bug #12817) (Note: This fix was reverted in MySQL 4.1.15
+          because it broke existing applications.)
         </para>
       </listitem>
 

--- 1.160/refman-common/news-5.0.xml	2005-09-09 13:46:36 -05:00
+++ 1.164/refman-common/news-5.0.xml	2005-09-09 15:27:38 -05:00
@@ -214,6 +214,31 @@
 
       <listitem>
         <para>
+          <literal>GROUP_CONCAT()</literal> ignored an empty string if
+          it was the first value to occur in the result. (Bug #12863)
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Outer join elimination was erroneously applied for some
+          queries that used a <literal>NOT BETWEEN</literal> condition,
+          an
+         
<literal>IN(<replaceable>value_list</replaceable>)</literal>
+          condition, or an <literal>IF()</literal> condition. (Bug
+          #12101, Bug #12102)
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>SHOW FIELDS</literal> truncated the
+          <literal>TYPE</literal> column to 40 characters. (Bug #7142)
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
           Use of <literal>PREPARE</literal> and
           <literal>EXECUTE</literal> with a statement that selected from
           a view in a subquery could cause a server crash. (Bug #12651)
@@ -3503,6 +3528,15 @@
     </para>
 
     <itemizedlist>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Security improvement: Applied a patch to fix a UDF
+          library-loading vulnerability that could result in a buffer
+          overflow and code execution.
+          (<ulink
url="http://www.appsecinc.com/resources/alerts/mysql/2005-002.html"/>)
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
 
       <listitem>
         <para>