MySQL Community Server 5.0.96 has been released

[Karen Langford]

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Server 5.0.96, a new version of the popular Open Source Database
Management System, has been released.  Please note that the active
maintenance of 5.0 has ended, and these builds are only provided
because of the fixes to security bugs as described below.

The release is now available in source and binary form for a number of
platforms from our archive download page at

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/

Mirror service for MySQL Server 5.0 has ended.  Also, support for some
platforms with very low demand has ended.  Please bear in mind that
MySQL 5.0 now receives extended support only, and that all active
development is happening on MySQL 5.1, 5.5, and beyond. You will find
the MySQL Lifecycle policy here:

http://www.mysql.com/support

For your own best interest, we strongly recommend all current users of
MySQL 5.0 to upgrade to MySQL 5.1.

We welcome and appreciate your feedback, bug reports, bug fixes,
patches etc:

http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Contributing

This section documents all changes and bugfixes that have been applied
since the last MySQL Server release (5.0.95).

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/news-5-0-96.html

If you would like to receive more fine-grained and personalized update
alerts about fixes that are relevant to the version and features you
use, please consider subscribing to MySQL Enterprise (a commercial
MySQL offering). For more details please see

http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/advisors.html

Changes in MySQL 5.0.96  (21 March, 2012)

   End of Product LifecycleActive development for MySQL Database
   Server version 5.0 has ended. Oracle offers various support
   offerings which may be of interest. For details and more
   information, see the MySQL section of the Lifetime Support Policy
   for Oracle Technology Products
   (http://www.oracle.com/us/support/lifetime-support/index.html).
   Please consider upgrading to a recent version.

    Functionality Added or Changed

      * yaSSL was upgraded from version 1.7.2 to 2.2.0.

Thanks,
Sunanda Menon
Release Engineer, MySQL, Oracle.