MySQL Releases Database Upgrade with Major Security, Stability Enhancements

MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, today announced that a new upgrade release of the MySQL™ database is now available. This release, MySQL Version 3.23.54, includes significant enhancements to database security and stability that resolve issues reported to the company last week, as well as other bug fixes.

As an open source database, the MySQL software code is constantly evaluated and tested by the large MySQL user community. As a result, MySQL AB releases regular database upgrades that fix all known bugs, enhance overall performance, and ensure that the MySQL developer community always has the most up-to-date and stable version of the database.

"One of the big benefits of being open source is that our code is battle-tested by the over 4 million MySQL users, which results in very stable software," said Mårten Mickos, MySQL CEO. "We are able to respond very quickly to any kind of bug report - often making source code fixes available within 24 hours. We encourage MySQL developers to always use the latest version of the MySQL database."

MySQL Version 3.23.54 is an upgrade to the current stable version of MySQL, Version 3.23, and it is now available in source and binary form from the MySQL download pages at http://www.mysql.com/downloads/ and mirror sites. All users of MySQL 3.23 are advised to upgrade to version 3.23.54. MySQL Version 4.0.6, which also addresses the recent security issues, will be released by the end of this week. Version 4.0.6 has been declared "gamma," which means it is ready for production use, and MySQL AB is encouraging developers to consider switching to 4.0 now.

About MySQL

MySQL AB develops, markets and supports the MySQL database server, the world's most popular open source database. With an estimated 4 million installations and 27,000 downloads per day, MySQL is the de facto open source database leader and is quickly becoming the core of many high-volume, business-critical applications. Major corporations such as Yahoo!, Lucent Technologies, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, Motorola, NASA, Silicon Graphics, HP, Xerox and Cisco rely on the ultra-fast, highly-reliable MySQL database. MySQL is available under the free software/open source GNU General Public License (GPL) or a non-GPL commercial license. For more information about MySQL, please go to www.mysql.com.

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