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MySQL 5.6.8 was announced a few days ago. You can download it from the MySQL downloads page
This is the second release candidate of MySQL 5.6, and it is strange. My understanding of a release candidate is something that is stable, its features committed long time ago, and the release will just attempt to fix bugs. Instead, there are features that were not in the first release candidate. This one strikes me as really odd (quoting from the announcement) :
On Unix platforms, mysql_install_db supports a new option, --random-passwords, that provides for more secure MySQL installation. Invoking mysql_install_db with this option causes it to perform the following actions in addition to its normal operation: …
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