MySQL is a very popular and open source SQL database provided by MySQL AB. MySQL AB is a commercial company that builds its business providing services around the MySQL database.MySQL is the world\'s most popular open source database software, with over 100 million copies of its software downloaded or distributed throughout its history. With superior speed, reliability, and ease of use, MySQL has become the preferred choice of corporate IT Managers because it eliminates the major problems associated with downtime, maintenance, administration and support.MySQL is a key part of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python), the fast growing open source enterprise software stack. More and more companies are using LAMP as an alternative to expensive proprietary software stacks because of its lower cost and freedom from lock-in.What\'s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]· Important Change: Replication: RESET MASTER and RESET SLAVE now reset the values shown for Last_IO_Error, Last_IO_Errno, Last_SQL_Error, and Last_SQL_Errno in the output of SHOW SLAVE STATUS.· The libedit library was upgraded to version 2.11.· Security Fix: Using an XPath expression employing a scalar expression as a FilterExpr with ExtractValue() or UpdateXML() caused the server to crash. Such expressions now cause an error instead.· Many more enhancements.