SET SQL_LOG_UPDATE=0 caused a lockup of the server.

New SQL command: FLUSH [ TABLES | HOSTS | LOGS | PRIVILEGES ] [, ...]

New SQL command: KILL thread_id.

Added casts and changed include files to make MySQL easier to compile on AIX and DEC OSF/1 4.x

Fixed conversion problem when using ALTER TABLE from a INT to a short CHAR() column.

Added SELECT HIGH_PRIORITY; this will get a lock for the SELECT even if there is a thread waiting for another SELECT to get a WRITE LOCK.

Moved wild_compare() to string class to be able to use LIKE on BLOB/TEXT columns with \0.

Added ESCAPE option to LIKE.

Added a lot more output to mysqladmin debug.

You can now start mysqld on Windows with the --flush option. This will flush all tables to disk after each update. This makes things much safer on the Windows platforms but also much slower.