MySQL 5.6 Release Notes

2 Changes in MySQL 5.6.51 (2021-01-20, General Availability)

Note

MySQL 5.6.51 is the last release of the MySQL 5.6 series.

Security Notes

Bugs Fixed

  • InnoDB: The full-text search synchronization thread attempted to read a previously-freed word from the index cache. (Bug #31310404)

  • The server did not handle all cases of the WHERE_CONDITION optimization correctly. (Bug #31905199)

  • Privileges for some INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables were checked incorrectly. (Bug #31553323)

  • In certain cases, the server did not handle multiply-nested subqueries correctly. (Bug #31472704)

  • A buffer overflow in the client library was fixed. (Bug #30885987)