After years of development, it appears that MySQL 5.1 is going to be released at the MySQL conference next week.
The timing is perfect. Our new database server is arriving on Monday and there hasn’t been a release candidate release since January.
5.1 is supposed to be faster. I’m sure that the web will be awash with benchmarks but I’m still going to run some sysbenches on the new machine just for fun. I’ll post whatever I come up with. In addition to performance improvements and bug fixes, MySQL 5.1 has some new features (like partitioning). There is a short “What’s New?” page over at mysql.com: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-nutshell.html.
update Doh. Looks like no GA release until June. At least there is a new release candidate.
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Doing some blog walking this am, trying to get acquainted a bit with folks on Rav.
Rerading your blog, scratching my head…lol sounds like a foreign language to me, cept I understand new machine = good!
Hope all goes well Sandy