Re: MySQL 4.0.15 has been released

[Lenz Grimmer]

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Hi,

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Christian Hammers wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:13:10AM +0300, Michael Shigorin wrote:
>
> > Is this relevant for 3.x?  If yes, then is it going to be fixed?

Yes, it also applies to 3.23.xx and I am working on releasing 3.23.58 at
this very moment. Ideally I wanted to publish both at the same time, but
as usual Murphy struck again.

> > If no, then is there a standalone patch for this issue?

The patch below is correct. You can also find it in our BK tree:

http://mysql.bkbits.net:8080/mysql-3.23/diffs/sql/sql_acl.cc@ style="color:#666">stripped?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-8w|cset@stripped|hist/sql/sql_acl.cc

> Something else that MySQL could do for it's porters would be to announce
> fixed for backports at least at the same time the new version is
> uploaded.

Yes, I should have done that before sending out the public release - my
bad.

> For now, the submitter on the bugtrag mailing list gave us a fix. It's
> untested (while we're at it, MySQL could confirm that the fix is ok
> because also easy looking patches sometimes fix only half of the
> problem...)

As stated above, it's the correct fix. It simply took us way too long to
get the new release out. This is something we need to discuss.

Bye,
	LenZ
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 Lenz Grimmer <lenz@stripped>
 Senior Production Engineer
 MySQL GmbH, http://www.mysql.de/
 Hamburg, Germany

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