MySQL Community Server 5.6.27 has been released (no replies)

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Server 5.6.27, a new version of the popular Open Source
Database Management System, has been released. MySQL 5.6.27 is
recommended for use on production systems.

For an overview of what's new in MySQL 5.6, please see

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-nutshell.html

For information on installing MySQL 5.6.27 on new servers or upgrading
to MySQL 5.6.27 from previous MySQL releases, please see

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/installing.html

MySQL Server is available in source and binary form for a number of
platforms from our download pages at

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/

Not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point in time, so if you
can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose
another download site.

We welcome and appreciate your feedback, bug reports, bug fixes,
patches, etc:

https://wikis.oracle.com/display/mysql/Contributing

The following section lists the changes in the MySQL 5.6 since
the release of MySQL 5.6.26. It may also be viewed
online at

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-27.html

Enjoy!

Changes in MySQL 5.6.27 (2015-09-30):

Functionality Added or Changed

* InnoDB: The new innodb_numa_interleave read-only
configuration option allows you to enable the NUMA
interleave memory policy for allocation of the InnoDB
buffer pool. When innodb_numa_interleave is enabled, the
NUMA memory policy is set to MPOL_INTERLEAVE for the
mysqld process. After the InnoDB buffer pool is
allocated, the NUMA memory policy is set back to
MPOL_DEFAULT. This option is only available on
NUMA-enabled systems.
Thanks to Stewart Smith for the patch. (Bug #18871046,
Bug #72811)

* yaSSL was upgraded to version 2.3.8. (Bug #21888925)

* RPM .spec files were updated so that MySQL Server builds
from source RPM packages will include the proper files to
take advantage of operating system NUMA capabilities.
This introduces a runtime dependency on libnuma.so.1. RPM
and yum detect this and refuse to install if that library
is not installed. (Bug #21775221)

* yaSSL was upgraded to version 2.3.7d. This fixes a
connection-failure issue when used with the thread pool
plugin. (Bug #20774956)

Bugs Fixed

* InnoDB: Reloading a table that was evicted while empty
caused an AUTO_INCREMENT value to be reset. (Bug
#21454472, Bug #77743)

* InnoDB: Memory allocation sanity checks were added to the
memcached code. (Bug #21288106)

* InnoDB: A memcached flush_all command raised an
assertion. A function that starts a transaction was
called from within assertion code. (Bug #21239299, Bug
#75199)

* InnoDB: A data corruption occurred on ARM64. GCC builtins
did not issue the correct fences when setting or
unsetting the lock word. (Bug #21102971, Bug #76135)

* InnoDB: Server shutdown was delayed waiting for the purge
thread to exit. To avoid this problem, the number of
calls to trx_purge() was reduced, and the trx_purge()
batch size was reduced to 20. (Bug #21040050)

* InnoDB: In READ COMMITTED mode, a REPLACE operation on a
unique secondary index resulted in a constraint
violation. Thanks to Alexey Kopytov for the patch. (Bug
#21025880, Bug #76927)

* InnoDB: The IBUF_BITMAP_FREE bit indicated that there was
more free space in the leaf page than was actually
available. (Bug #20796566)

* InnoDB: Setting lower_case_table_names=0 on a
case-insensitive file system could result in a hang
condition when running an INSERT INTO ... SELECT ... FROM
tbl_name operation with the wrong tbl_name letter case.
An error message is now printed and the server exits when
attempting to start the server with
--lower_case_table_names=0 on a case-insensitive file
system. (Bug #20198490, Bug #75185)

* InnoDB: The server failed to start with an
innodb_force_recovery setting greater than 3. InnoDB was
set to read-only mode before redo logs were applied.
DROP TABLE is now supported with an innodb_force_recovery
setting greater than 3. (Bug #19779113)

* InnoDB: The trx_sys_read_pertable_file_format_id()
function reported the wrong file format. (Bug #19206671)

* Partitioning: CREATE TABLE statements that used an
invalid function in a subpartitioning expression did not
always fail gracefully as expected. (Bug #20310212)

* Partitioning: Error handling for failed
partitioning-related ALTER TABLE operations against
non-partitioned tables was not performed correctly (Bug
#20284744)

* Partitioning: ALTER TABLE when executed from a stored
procedure did not always work correctly with tables
partitioned by RANGE. (Bug #16613004)

* Replication: Repeatedly checking for
ERR_LOCK_WAIT_TIMEOUT (as done, for example by repeatedly
executing SHOW SLAVE STATUS) during a prolonged write
lock on a table led to an assert. (Bug #21095969)

* Replication: If statement based logging was in use, when
updating multiple tables in a single statement, a single
transaction could be logged as two different
transactions. This was due to the binary logging process
not properly identifying statements which were operating
over transactional tables. The fix ensures that they are
correctly identified, even if such statements do not
change the contents of the tables. (Bug #16621582, Bug
#21349028)

* Replication: When the dump thread was killed while
dumping an inactive binary log, some events in this log
could be skipped and thus not replicated. (Bug #78337,
Bug #21816399)
References: See also Bug #74607, Bug #19975697.

* Replication: Under certain circumstances it was possible
for Retrieved_Gtid_Set on the slave to contain gaps while
no gaps appeared in Executed_Gtid_Set or the slave's
binary logs. This could happen when slave rotated the
relay log in such a way that the last event of this log
contained the record which set gtid_next, and was then
restarted after reading GTIDs from the following log.
Following the restart, Retrieved_Gtid_Set contained GTIDs
which were executed incorrectly as well as spurious or
"phantom" gaps.
TYhe fix for this problem adds a GTID to
Retrieved_Gtid_Set before writing the event to the relay
log, rather than after. If for some reason writing to
relay log fails, the GTID is removed from
Retrieved_Gtid_Set. (Bug #76959, Bug #21046372)
References: See also Bug #17943188.

* Replication: SAVEPOINT and ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT within a
trigger led to an assertion. (Bug #76727, Bug #20901025)

* Replication: While a SHOW BINLOG EVENTS statement was
executing, any parallel transaction was blocked. The fix
ensures that the SHOW BINLOG EVENTS process now only
acquires a lock for the duration of calculating the
file's end position, therefore parallel transactions are
not blocked for long durations. (Bug #76618, Bug
#20928790)

* Replication: If a CREATE VIEW statement failed, it was
being incorrectly written to the binary log even though
it did not result in the creation of a partial view. The
fix ensures that such statements are not recorded in the
binary log. Additionally it was found that when a
statement which had failed on a master was received by a
slave with an expected error, if the statement was
skipped on the slave, for example due to a replication
filter, the expected error was being compared with the
actual error that happened on the slave. The fix ensures
that if a statement with an expected error is received by
a slave, if the statement has not been filtered, only
then is it compared with the actual error that happened
on the slave. (Bug #76493, Bug #20797764)

* Replication: The action specified for binlog_error_action
was not always honored correctly after a hardware failure
occurred during log rotation. (Bug #76379, Bug #20805298)

* Replication: Modifying the master_info_repository or
relay_log_info_repository inside a transaction and later
rolling back that transaction left the repository in an
unusable state. We fix this by preventing any
modification of these repositories inside a transaction.
(Bug #74950, Bug #20074353)

* Replication: When relay_log_recovery is set, the error
log entry that reports the new recovery positions has
been extended to also report the old relay log positions.
(Bug #74089, Bug #21305976)

* Replication: When a master with --binlog_checksum=none
and --gtid-mode=ON was replicating to a slave with
--binlog_checksum=crc32, restarting the slave's SQL
thread caused an Event crc check error. This was due to
the Format_description_log_event from the master not
being correctly found in existing relay logs after
restarting the slave's SQL thread. The fix ensures that
the Previous_gtids_log_event is correctly skipped and
that the correct Format_description_log_event is found in
existing relay logs after restarting the slave's SQL
thread. (Bug #73806, Bug #20644100, Bug #76746, Bug
#20909880)

* Replication: When the running with
--relay-log-info-repository=TABLE, the
mysql.slave_relay_log_info table is updated when a
transaction is committed or when a flush is performed
explicitly, such during relay log rotation. If a
transaction that uses any nontransactional tables (such
as MyISAM tables) is split across multiple relay logs, it
is partially committed on relay log flush. When
gtid_mode=ON, this caused the same GTID to be used for
the remaining portion of the transaction, which raised an
ER_GTID_NEXT_TYPE_UNDEFINED_GROUP error.
We fix this issue by postponing in such cases the update
of the relay log information repository that normally
occurs on relay log rotation until the commit for the
transaction in question has been executed.
This issue did not affect tables using transactional
storage engines such as InnoDB. (Bug #68525, Bug
#16418100)

* The CMake checks for NUMA availability could cause
compilation problems on platforms without NUMA support.
(Bug #21774859)

* Certain subqueries as arguments to PROCEDURE ANALYSE()
could cause a server exit. (Bug #21350175)

* mysql_ssl_rsa_setup could create an unwanted .rnd file in
the data directory. (The file is actually created by
openssl, which mysql_ssl_ras_setup invokes.
mysql_ssl_rsa_setup now cleans up the file.) (Bug
#21335818)

* An assertion could be raised due to incorrect error
handling if a SELECT ... FOR UPDATE subquery resulted in
deadlock and caused a rollback. (Bug #21096444)

* Selecting the result of an INSERT() function call to
which input was passed as a hexidecimal string could
expose more information than was passed to the function.
(Bug #21056907)

* The updatable property of a view is set during view
creation. If the underlying table was dropped and
re-created as a nonupdatable one, the updatable property
of the original view was not revised accordingly. This
could cause a server exit for attempts to insert or
replace into the view is made. (This problem was specific
to views with multiple tables/views and did not occur
with update statements.) (Bug #21039264)

* Servers linked against yaSSL and compiled with GCC 4.8.2
could fail to respond correctly to connection attempts
until several seconds after startup. (Bug #21025377)

* For tables with subpartitions, the server could exit due
to incorrect error handling during partition pruning if
the partition could be identified but not the
subpartition. (Bug #20909518)

* DELETE could check privileges for the wrong database when
table aliases were used. (Bug #20777016)

* Within a trigger, use of a cursor that accessed OLD or
NEW values from a row could cause a server exit. (Bug
#20760261)

* MySQL sometimes produced no warning when it was unable to
interpret a character in a given character set. (Bug
#20238729)

* On Windows, the validate_password plugin could cause a
server exit during the dictionary check. (Bug #18636874)

* On Windows, setting query_cache_min_res_unit to too large
a value could result in a value of 0 and a subsequent
server exit. (Bug #18487951)

* EXPLAIN of statements containing GROUP_CONCAT() could
cause a server exit. (Bug #17865675)

* On Windows, heap corruption in the audit log plugin
caused server startup failure. (Bug #14700102)

* RPM installation scripts if configuration files contained
multiple datadir lines. Now the last datadir line is
used. (Bug #77878, Bug #21527467)

* For wait events, the Performance Schema uses the CYCLE
timer by default, but failed to fall back to a different
timer if CYCLE was unavailable. (Bug #77577, Bug
#21374104)

* Updating VARCHAR and TEXT columns in the same UPDATE
statement could produce incorrect results. When a VARCHAR
column was assigned to a TEXT column and the VARCHAR
column was then set to a different value, the TEXT
column's result contained the VARCHAR column's new value.
(Bug #77135, Bug #21143080)

* If an INFORMATION_SCHEMA query that performed a
table-open operation encountered a corrupt table and
attempted to repair it, a deadlock could occur, resulting
in an aborted transaction without an appropriate error
being reported. Such queries now do not attempt table
repair. (Bug #76912, Bug #21021848)

* mysqladmin -u root -p could exit with a segmentation
fault. (Bug #76538, Bug #20802751)

* mysqlimport --use-threads did not actually use multiple
threads. (Bug #76480, Bug #20772273)

* The optimizer sometimes generates an index for a derived
table (subquery in the FROM clause). If this occurred for
a statement executed within a stored program, a memory
leak could occur. (Bug #76349, Bug #20728894)

* For OS X 10.9 packages, the version_compile_os system
variable indicated 10.8. (Bug #75581, Bug #20400501)

* The optimizer could incorrectly assume an out-of-memory
condition while optimizing a range scan for the OR
operator, resulting in overestimation of the number of
qualifying rows. (Bug #75248, Bug #20229614)

* On platforms where the char is unsigned, the server was
unable to parse collation definitions that included
non-7-bit ASCII characters. Affected platforms include
ARM and PowerPC. Thanks to Alexey Kopytov for the patch.
(Bug #74891, Bug #20928289, Bug #20928289)

* The Performance Schema events_statements_history table
could have an ERRORS column value of 0 when other columns
indicated there were errors. (Bug #74614, Bug #19929832)

* View creation from a UNION failed with a duplicate-column
error if a SELECT statement in the UNION other than the
first used the same column name multiple times. (Bug
#74539, Bug #19886430)

* Empty XML elements having the form <element/> were not
handled correctly by the LOAD XML statement. (Bug #67542,
Bug #16171518)

On Behalf of the MySQL/ORACLE RE Team
Hery Ramilison