October 30, 2004
MySQL | MySQL 4.1 released
After a long testing period MySQL 4.1 has finally been declared production ready and is available for download. Representing a further incremental step in MySQL's steady advancement towards fully-fledged RDBMS-dom, it provides several sorely-missed features including sub-SELECTs.
New features include:
- Subqueries and derived tables
- New GUI installer and configuration wizards for Linux and Window
- Unicode support, including the utf8 and ucs2 character sets
- GIS spatial types
- Improved full text search
The version described by MySQL as "Certified as Production-Ready" is 4.1.7.
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Posted at 12:23 PM