The official version of MySQL5.1 is ready for release soon

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Sun has confirmed that all major vulnerabilities in the latest version of MySQL 5.1 have been fixed and everything is ready. open-source users looking forward to seeing it available in the coming weeks. Zack Urlocker, vice chairman of Sun's database product department, said Sun's developers have repeatedly checked and tested MySQL 5.1 in many ways to ensure that the official version of the public release is no problem.

Sun officials announced at the MySQL Conference in June that the new version of MySQL database will meet you within weeks after the meeting. However, in order to identify major MySQL 5.1 vulnerabilities and fix them, the time spent far exceeds Sun's budget. Therefore, the public release time of the official MySQL 5.1 version has to be delayed.

Matt Aslett, an analyst at the 451 Group of market research institutions, said Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL, invited MySQL developers several weeks ago to help the company decide whether to publish MySQL 5.1 publicly. Obviously, the company is still worried about the mistakes made by the previous 5.0 public release and the 5.1 candidate release due to insufficient prudence, so it is worried about making a third mistake. The fact that MySQL considers it necessary to publicly consult and publish the issue shows that the company has insufficient confidence in the vulnerability reporting process, or else it is too cautious.

Urlocker said Sun promised that before applying a public release label to the product and officially recommending it to customers in the production environment, we must ensure that the product can be put on the market without any problems. This is why Sun is asking for help in the product release candidate edition (RC) stage. At the same time, Urlocker also said that, with the efforts of developers, all known vulnerabilities that have been reported by customers with no fixed priority as one and two have been fixed.

Noel Yuhanna, an analyst at Forrester's Market Research Institute, believes that if MySQL wants to expand its existing functions to provide support for a high-performance enterprise-level environment, it will inevitably encounter difficulties on this road to improvement, sun's delayed release is the most powerful proof. It takes about three years to develop MySQL 5.1. Sun has always been ambitious about MySQL projects. Therefore, it has added a large number of enterprise-level functions to improve performance, such as row-based replication and other features. This function can replicate data changes between the master server and slave server, rather than the actual SQL statement. To improve flexibility, the MySQL team also added the hybrid replication feature. you can choose to use statement replication or row replication based on a single SQL operation. Other enhancements include support for five different data partition formats: hash partition, list partition, key partition, range partition, and sub-partitioning partition, this feature is said to help customers process ultra-large datasets. Considering that these functions are very complex, you must invest a lot in R & D and testing, especially if you want the software to support large and complex production environments.