Dear Falconers,

MySQL 6.0.4-alpha, a new version of the MySQL database system including
the Falcon transactional storage engine (now at beta stage), has been released. The main page for MySQL 6.0 is at:

http://www.mysql.com/mysql60/

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

MySQL 6.0.4-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,
patches etc.:

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

The change list is extremely long. Therefore I did not c&p’ed it here. You can view it online at:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/news-6-0-4.html