From: Joerg Bruehe Date: August 20 2010 2:18pm Subject: Re: 5.1.x review List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/222611 Message-Id: <4C6E8EAD.7000801@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all! Johan De Meersman wrote: > 2010/8/20 Elim PDT >=20 >> There are so many versions of 5.1, Is there some review or recommendat= ions >> for a stable one? thanks >=20 >=20 > As far as I know, 5.1 is considered a stable branch, and you can safely= take > the most recent release as it should contain mostly fixes. Correct. 5.1 is considered "production quality", also called "GA" (=3D "generally available"). It does not receive feature development any more (features must be finished before the software is declared "GA"), but it receives bug fixes and some further performance improvements (monthly updates). Of course it is made by humans, and humans may make mistakes, so there may be a 5.1 version with problems, but in general you should always take the latest 5.1 version while that series is active. As of today, this is MySQL 5.1.50. When 5.1 reaches its end of active (support) life, this list will see mails about that, together with information about the successor. HTH, J=F6rg --=20 Joerg Bruehe, MySQL Build Team, joerg.bruehe@stripped ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG, Komturstrasse 18a, D-12099 Berlin Geschaeftsfuehrer: Juergen Kunz, Marcel v.d. Molen, Alexander v.d. Ven Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRA 95603