# MariaDB 5.2.5 Changelog
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**Release date:** 3 Mar 2011
For the highlights of this release, see the [release notes](/docs/release-notes/community-server/old-releases/5.2/5.2.5.md).
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* [Revision #2929](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2929)\
Tue 2011-03-01 23:24:17 +0200
* Fixed wrong alias usage
* [Revision #2928](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2928)\
Tue 2011-03-01 18:31:33 +0100
* use mtr\_verbose() for debug output in suite.pm files
* [Revision #2927](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2927) \[merge]\
Tue 2011-03-01 17:04:17 +0200
* merge
* [Revision #2643.114.65](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2643.114.65)\
Tue 2011-03-01 16:21:27 +0200
* Fixed for mac sed.
* [Revision #2926](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2926) \[merge]\
Tue 2011-03-01 15:51:35 +0200
* Merge with 5.1
* [Revision #2643.114.64](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2643.114.64)\
Tue 2011-03-01 15:31:24 +0200
* Revoked changes from MySQL 5.1.55 merge as Sergei's code is more general
* [Revision #2643.114.63](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2643.114.63)\
Tue 2011-03-01 15:19:25 +0200
* Allow -Wuninitialized without -O only for gcc 4.4 and upper
* [Revision #2925](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2925)\
Tue 2011-03-01 13:37:29 +0200
* Fixed wrong filenames in maria unittest that caused unittest to fail
* [Revision #2924](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2924) \[merge]\
Tue 2011-03-01 00:46:13 +0200
* Merge with 5.1 to get fixes for tests and compiler warnings
* [Revision #2643.114.62](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2643.114.62)\
Mon 2011-02-28 23:24:19 +0200
* Get rid of compiler warnings
* [Revision #2643.114.61](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2643.114.61)\
Mon 2011-02-28 19:47:19 +0200
* Increase version number
* Taged a couple of tests with `--big-test`
* [Revision #2923](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2923)\
Tue 2011-03-01 00:35:05 +0200
* Fixes to mysql-test-run and tests
* Added ORDER BY to get consistent results to federated\_server
* Sort slow tests first
* [Revision #2922](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2922) \[merge]\
Mon 2011-02-28 19:39:30 +0200
* Merge with 5.1 to get in changes from MySQL 5.1.55
* [Revision #2921](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2921) \[merge]\
Mon 2011-02-28 13:16:17 +0200
* Merge with alias as String
* [Revision #2883.1.2](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2883.1.2)\
Mon 2011-02-28 12:48:50 +0200
* Change TABLE->alias to String for less memory reallocation
* Changed some String.ptr() -> String.c\_ptr() for String that are not guaranteed to end with \0
* Removed some c\_ptr() usage from parameters to functions that takes ptr & length
* Use preallocate buffers to avoid calling malloc() for most operations.
* [Revision #2883.1.1](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2883.1.1) \[merge]\
Tue 2010-11-09 10:20:09 +0200
* automatic merge
* [Revision #2882.1.1](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2882.1.1)\
Mon 2010-11-08 13:43:54 +0200
* Make SQLString reallocation addaptive
* Avoid doing reallocs
* Prealloc some strings / provide extension allocation size to some strings\
This gave a 25 % speedup in some mysql-test-run tests.
* [Revision #2920](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2920)\
Thu 2011-02-03 16:45:29 +0200
* Increased precision for status variables Rows\_sent and Rows\_read from long to longlong
* Fixed that status variables 'empty\_queries', 'access\_denied\_errors' and 'lost\_connections' are propageted to global status.
* This should also remove some warnings with VC++
* [Revision #2919](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2919)\
Sat 2011-01-29 12:04:37 +0200
* Fix compilation errors (and some warnings) when compiling ndb
* Fixes part of [Bug #705213](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/705213) (Other part is to be pushed into 5.1)
* [Revision #2918](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2918)\
Mon 2011-01-24 15:47:28 +0200
* Fix of [Bug #706884](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/706884): fill\_record should be used for only one table (no need list).
* [Revision #2917](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2917)\
Thu 2011-01-20 13:00:46 +0100
* [Bug #705210](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/705210) - Compiling with BUILD/compile-pentium64-debug fails
* support building with -all-static (no dlopen and dlclose make few\
related declarations unused or "statement have no effect") and -Werror
* [Revision #2916](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2916)\
Thu 2011-01-20 12:59:47 +0100
* [Bug #700982](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/700982) - Non-portable code in client plugin (fails on ARM).
* don't pass NULL as an argument where va\_list is expected.
* [Revision #2915](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2915)\
Wed 2011-01-12 12:11:21 +0100
* fix function prototype to follow the API
* [Revision #2914](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2914)\
Fri 2011-01-14 16:51:18 +0200
* Added suppression for failure on opensuse 64 bit.
* [Revision #2913](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2913) \[merge]\
Fri 2011-01-14 16:49:27 +0200
* Merge with 5.1
* [Revision #2912](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2912)\
Thu 2011-01-13 13:28:36 +0100
* [Bug #702303](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/702303): Spurious `use` statements in output from mysqlbinlog `--rewrite-db="a->b"`
* [Revision #2911](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2911)\
Wed 2011-01-12 17:58:13 +0200
* Fixed assert as Aria in 5.2 has more flags than 5.1
* [Revision #2910](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2910) \[merge]\
Wed 2011-01-12 17:38:13 +0200
* Merge with 5.1
* [Revision #2909](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2909) \[merge]\
Tue 2011-01-11 14:29:19 +0200
* automatic merge with 5.1
* [Revision #2908](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2908) \[merge]\
Mon 2011-01-10 23:42:47 +0200
* Automatic merge with 5.1
* [Revision #2907](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2907) \[merge]\
Fri 2011-01-07 18:07:22 +0200
* merge with 5.1
* [Revision #2906](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2906)\
Fri 2011-01-07 13:45:59 +0200
* Fixed typos
* Patch provided by Dolf Schimmel
* [Revision #2905](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2905) \[merge]\
Fri 2011-01-07 13:12:09 +0200
* Merge with base 5.2
* [Revision #2903.1.3](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2903.1.3)\
Fri 2011-01-07 12:17:34 +0200
* Aria fixes:
* Don't delete pages without flushing that has had a tail or head information in pagecache\_delete()
* This fixes a case where REPAIR could find old deleted rows.
* [Revision #2903.1.2](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2903.1.2) \[merge]\
Fri 2011-01-07 12:05:46 +0200
* Merge with 5.1
* [Revision #2903.1.1](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2903.1.1) \[merge]\
Wed 2011-01-05 16:03:58 +0200
* Merge with 5.1
* [Revision #2904](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2904)\
Thu 2011-01-06 15:55:29 +0100
* [Bug #698132](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/698132): Fix wrong buffer calculation in send\_change\_user\_packet()
* [Revision #2903](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2903)\
Fri 2010-12-31 10:39:14 +0100
* virtual columns:
* move a capability from a virtual handler method to table\_flags()
* rephrase error messages to avoid hard-coded English parts
* admit in test cases that they need xtradb, not innodb
* [Revision #2902](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2902)\
Mon 2010-12-27 10:53:02 +0100
* fixes bug: [Bug #683112](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/683112)
* [Bug #665028](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/665028) SHOW STORAGE ENGINES shows incorrect Transaction support for Aria
* don't fill in handlerton::commit member, as it's not used\
and makes MySQL believe that Aria is transactional.
* Fix the TRANSACTIONAL=1 warning.
* [Revision #2901](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2901)\
Mon 2010-12-20 19:19:24 +0100
* [Bug #683112](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/683112) Maria 5.2 incorrectly reports "(using password: NO)" even when password is specified
* set thd->password appropriately also for cases when a user was not found.
* [Revision #2900](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2900)\
Fri 2010-12-17 08:33:36 +0100
* [Bug #691437](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/691437): storage/sphinx/plug.in missing from source tarball.
* It was missing from EXTRA\_DIST in Makefile.am.
* [Revision #2899](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2899) \[merge]\
Mon 2010-12-13 15:51:47 +0200
* merge with 5.1
* (Includes patch for overrun detected by valgrind thanks to previous my\_alloca() -> my\_malloc() patch)
* [Revision #2898](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2898)\
Mon 2010-12-13 15:05:57 +0200
* When compiling with valgrind, change my\_alloca() to use my\_malloc()
* This allows us to detect missing my\_afree() calls and also find overruns (when running with valgrind) to alloca() areas.
* Added missing my\_afree() calls
* Fixed wrong call to my\_afree()
* [Revision #2897](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2897)\
Fri 2010-12-10 09:51:34 +0100
* Fix wrong merge of patch for [MySQL Bug #46639](https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=46639).
* [Revision #2896](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2896) \[merge]\
Tue 2010-12-07 00:14:16 +0100
* merge [Bug #686184](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/686184)
* [Revision #2895](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2/revision/2895) \[merge]\
Mon 2010-12-06 13:16:49 +0100
* merge with 5.1
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