Views in 5.0.1

[Ben Clewett]

Dear MySQL,

I have need to use VIEWS.  (This is to protect my database from
programmers, but that's another story :)

This is available in version 5.0.1, which is not at release level yet.
We are on 4.1.9.

May I ask a couple of questions!

Approximately when will 5.0.1 be available as stable release?

If we upgraded to 5.0.1 now, is this stable for all the features in
4.1.9?  So could we safely move now?

Kind regards,

Ben Clewett.