Added system command to mysql.

Fixed bug when HANDLER was used with some unsupported table type.

mysqldump now puts ALTER TABLE tbl_name DISABLE KEYS and ALTER TABLE tbl_name ENABLE KEYS in the sql dump.

Added mysql_fix_extensions script.

Fixed stack overrun problem with LOAD DATA FROM MASTER on OSF/1.

Fixed shutdown problem on HP-UX.

Added DES_ENCRYPT() and DES_DECRYPT() functions.

Added FLUSH DES_KEY_FILE statement.

Added --des-key-file option to mysqld.

HEX(string) now returns the characters in string converted to hexadecimal.

Fixed problem with GRANT when using lower_case_table_names=1.

Changed SELECT ... IN SHARE MODE to SELECT ... LOCK IN SHARE MODE (as in MySQL 3.23).

A new query cache to cache results from identical SELECT queries.

Fixed core dump bug on 64-bit machines when it got an incorrect communication packet.

MATCH ... AGAINST(... IN BOOLEAN MODE) can now work without FULLTEXT index.

Fixed slave to replicate from 3.23 master.

Miscellaneous replication fixes/cleanup.

Got shutdown to work on Mac OS X.

Added myisam/ft_dump utility for low-level inspection of FULLTEXT indexes.

Fixed bug in DELETE ... WHERE ... MATCH ....

Added support for MATCH ... AGAINST(... IN BOOLEAN MODE). Note: you must rebuild your tables with ALTER TABLE tablename TYPE=MyISAM to be able to use boolean full-text search.

LOCATE() and INSTR() are now case-sensitive if either argument is a binary string.

Changed RAND() initialization so that RAND(N) and RAND(N+1) are more distinct.

Fixed core dump bug in UPDATE ... ORDER BY.

In 3.23, INSERT INTO ... SELECT always had IGNORE enabled. Now MySQL will stop (and possibly roll back) by default in case of an error unless you specify IGNORE.

Ignore DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY directives on Windows.

Added boolean full-text search code. It should be considered early alpha.

Extended MODIFY and CHANGE in ALTER TABLE to accept the FIRST and AFTER keywords.

Indexes are now used with ORDER BY on a whole InnoDB table.