Our patches for 5.0 have attracted significant interest. You can read about SecondLife's experience here, as well as what Flickr had to say on their blog. The main improvements come in both performance gains and improvements to diagnostics (such as the improvements to the slow log output, and INDEX_STATISTICS).
Despite having many requests to port these patches to 5.1, we simply haven't had the bandwidth as our main focus has been on developing XtraDB and XtraBackup. Thankfully a customer (who prefers to stay unnamed) as stood up and sponsored the work to move the patches to 5.1.
To refresh, the most interesting patches are:
- Performance patches for InnoDB ®. Although …