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 …