Well, MySQL is evolving quite rapidly here at TcX and we want to share this with other MySQL users. We try to make a release when we have a very useful feature that others seem to have a need for.
We also try to help out users who request features that are easy to implement. We also take note on what our licensed users want to have and we especially take notes of what our extended email supported customers want and try to help them out.
No one has to download a new release. The News section will tell you if the new release has something you really want. See section MySQL change history.
If there is, by any chance, a fatal bug in a release we will make a new release as soon as possible. We would like other companies to do this too. :)
The 3.21.x version incorporates major portability changes for many different systems. When the 3.21 release is stable we will remove the alpha/beta suffix and move active development to 3.22. Bugs will still be fixed in the stable version. We don't believe in a complete freeze, as this also leaves out bug fixes and things that 'must be done'. 'Somewhat freezed' means that we will maybe add small things that 'almost surely will not affect anything thats already working'.
If you are running and old system and want to upgrade, but you don't want to take chances with 3.21 you should upgrade to 3.20.32. I have tried to only fix fatal bugs and make small, relatively safe changes in this version.
If you are trying MySQL for the first time or have a little time to test out that your current system, you should use 3.21.
Go to the first, previous, next, last section, table of contents.