The following symbols are now reserved words: TIME, DATE, TIMESTAMP, TEXT, BIT, ENUM, NO, ACTION, CHECK, YEAR, MONTH, DAY, HOUR, MINUTE, SECOND, STATUS, VARIABLES.

Setting a TIMESTAMP to NULL in LOAD DATA INFILE ... didn't set the current time for the TIMESTAMP.

Fix BETWEEN to recognize binary strings. Now BETWEEN is case-sensitive.

Added --skip-thread-priority option to mysqld, for systems where mysqld's thread scheduling doesn't work properly (BSDI 3.1).

Added ODBC functions DAYNAME() and MONTHNAME().

Added function TIME_FORMAT(). This works like DATE_FORMAT(), but takes a time string ('HH:MM:SS') as argument.

Fixed unlikely(?) key optimizer bug when using OR operators of key parts inside AND expressions.

Added variables command to mysqladmin.

A lot of small changes to the binary releases.

Fixed a bug in the new protocol from MySQL Version 3.21.20.

Changed ALTER TABLE to work with Windows (Windows can't rename open files). Also fixed a couple of small bugs in the Windows version.

All standard MySQL clients are now ported to MySQL for Windows.

MySQL can now be started as a service on NT.