We have a new Alpha release for MySQL 6.x

MySQL 6.0.8-alpha, a new version of the MySQL database system has been released. The main page for MySQL 6.0 release is at

• http://www.mysql.com/mysql60/

MySQL 6.0 includes two new storage engines: the transactional Falcon engine, and the crash-safe Maria engine.

If you are new to the Falcon storage engine and need more information, please read the Falcon Evaluation Guide at

• http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/white-papers/falcon-getting-started.php

and the Falcon White Paper at

• http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/white-papers/storage-engines-falcon.php

The Maria storage engine is a crash safe version of MyISAM. Maria supports all of the main functionality of the MyISAM engine, but includes recovery support (in the event of a system crash), full logging (including CREATE, DROP, RENAME and TRUNCATE operations), all MyISAM row formats and a new Maria specific row format. Maria is documented at

• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/se-maria.html

MySQL 6.0.8-alpha is available in source and binary form for a number of platforms from our download pages at

• http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/6.0.html

and mirror sites. Note that 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, and patches at

• http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Contributing

The following section lists important, incompatible and security changes since the previous version of MySQL 6.0. The full changelog, including many more fixes can be viewed online at

• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/news-6-0-8.html

What about you?

We are interested in you! Where do you use MySQL 6.x? What do you do with MySQL 6.x? Are there any features you want to see in our MySQL 6.x series? You can test MySQL 6.x and get famous by providing valuable bug reports and feature requests!