MySQL 5.6.26 was recently released (it is the latest MySQL 5.6, is GA), and is available for download here.

For this release, there are 3 “Functionality Added or Changed” items, 1 “Security Fix”, and 36 other bug fixes.

Out of those other 36 bugs, 13 are InnoDB, 1 Partitioning, 3 Replication, and 19 misc. (including 3 potentially crashing bug fixes, and 1 performance-related fix) Here are the ones of note:

• Functionality Added/Changed: Replication: When using a multi-threaded slave, each worker thread has its own queue of transactions to process. In previous MySQL versions, STOP SLAVE waited for all workers to process their entire queue. This logic has been changed so that STOP SLAVE first finds the newest transaction that was committed by any worker thread. Then, it waits for all workers to complete …

MySQL 5.6.25 was recently released (it is the latest MySQL 5.6, is GA), and is available for download here.

For this release, there are 2 “Functionality Added or Changed” items of note:

• Functionality Added/Changed: MySQL distributions now include an innodb_stress suite of test cases. Thanks to Mark Callaghan for the contribution. (Bug #76347)
• Functionality Added/Changed: my_print_defaults now masks passwords. To display passwords in cleartext, use the new –show option.

In addition to those, there were 55 other bug fixes:

• 10 InnoDB
•   8 Replication
•   3 Partitioning (one overlaps w/ an InnoDB bug fix)
• 35 Miscellaneous (and 6 of …

MySQL 5.6.24 was recently released (it is the latest MySQL 5.6, is GA), and is available for download here.

For this release, there are 4 “Functionality Added or Changed” items:

• Functionality Added/Changed: CMake support was updated to handle CMake version 3.1.
• Functionality Added/Changed: The server now includes its version number when it writes the initial “starting” message to the error log, to make it easier to tell which server instance error log output applies to. This value is the same as that available from the version system variable. (Bug #74917)
• Functionality Added/Changed: ALTER TABLE did not take advantage of fast alterations that might otherwise apply to the operation to …

MySQL 5.6.23 was recently released (it is the latest MySQL 5.6, is GA), and is available for download here.

For this release, there is 1 “Security Note”, 3 “Functionality Changed”, and 5 “Compilation Notes”, all benign, but let me address them:

1. Security Note: The linked OpenSSL library for the MySQL Commercial Server has been updated from version 1.0.1j to version 1.0.1k. Issues fixed in the new version are described at http://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html.
2. Functionality Changed: Support for the SSL 2.0 and SSL 3.0 protocols has been disabled because they provide weak encryption. (Bug #19820550, Bug #19921150)
3. Functionality Changed: yaSSL was upgraded to version …

MySQL 5.6.22 was recently released (it is the latest MySQL 5.6, is GA), and is available for download here.

For this release, there is 1 “Security Note”, 2 “Functionality Changed”, and 5 “Compilation Notes”, all benign, but let me address them:

1. Security Note: The linked OpenSSL library for the MySQL Commercial Server has been updated from version 1.0.1h to version 1.0.1j. Issues fixed in the new version are described at http://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html.
2. Functionality Changed: Replication: The variable binlogging_impossible_mode has been renamed binlog_error_action. binlogging_impossible_mode is now deprecated. (Bug #19507567)
3. Functionality Changed: …