If one gives -p or --password option to mysql without an argument, the user is solicited for the password from the tty.

Added default password from MYSQL_PWD (by Elmar Haneke).

Added command kill to mysqladmin to kill a specific MySQL thread.

Sometimes when doing a reconnect on a down connection this succeeded first on second try.

Fixed adding an AUTO_INCREMENT key with ALTER_TABLE.

AVG() gave too small value on some SELECT statements with GROUP BY and ORDER BY.

Added new DATETIME type (by Giovanni Maruzzelli <maruzz@matrice.it>).

Fixed that defining DONT_USE_DEFAULT_FIELDS works.

Changed to use a thread to handle alarms instead of signals on Solaris to avoid race conditions.

Fixed default length of signed numbers. (George Harvey <georgeh@pinacl.co.uk>.)

Allow anything for CREATE INDEX.

Add prezeros when packing numbers to DATE, TIME and TIMESTAMP.

Fixed a bug in OR of multiple tables (gave empty set).

Added many patches to MIT-pthreads. This fixes at least one lookup bug.