MySQL Reference Manual for version .

The source distribution is done with configure and automake: It will make porting much easier. Readline is included in the distribution.
Separate client compilation: The client code should be very easy to compile on system which doesn't have threads.
The old perl interface code is automaticly compiled and installed. Automatic compiling of DBD will follow when the new DBD code is ported.
Dynamic language support: mysqld can now be started with Swedish or English (default) error messages.
new functions: INSERT(),RTRIM(),LTRIM() and FORMAT().
mysqldump now works correctly for all field types (even auto_increment). The format for 'show fields from table' is changed so the 'type' column contains info suitable for 'CREATE TABLE'. In previous releases some CREATE TABLE info had to be patched to when recreating tables
Some parser bugs from 3.19.5 (blob and timestamp) are corrected. Timestamp now returns different date info depending of it's create length.
Changed parser to allow a database name, table name and field name to start with a number or '_'.
All old C code from UNIREG changed to c++ and cleaned up. This makes the daemon a little smaller and easier to understand.
A lot of small bug fixes done.
New INSTALL files (not final version) and some info regarding porting.