It is not possible to prevent the server from starting if a mandatory
built-in plugin fails to start. This can in some cases lead to data
corruption when the old table name space suddenly is used by a different
storage engine.

A boolean command line option in the form of --foobar is automatically
created for every existing plugin "foobar". By changing this command line
option from a boolean to a tristate { OFF, ON, FORCE } it is possible to
specify the plugin loading policy for each plugin.

The behavior is specified as follows:
   OFF   = Disable the plugin and start the server
   ON    = Enable the plugin and start the server even if an error occurrs
           during plugin initialization.
   FORCE = Enable the plugin but don't start the server if an error occurrs
           during plugin initialization.

UNIX sockets need to be on a path shorter than 70 characters on some older platofrms.
MTRv1 tries to fix this by moving the socket to the $TMPDIR, however this causes
issues with certain tests on Windows.

Fixed by not applying any hacks on Windows - Windows does not need them.

checking in a test case that will reproduce
the error on v5r4.

This patch fixes compilation warning, "conversion from 'time_t' to 'ulong', 
possible loss of data". 
The fix is to typecast time_t to ulong before assigning it to ulong. 
Backported this from 6.0-bugteam tree.

            SQL_SELECT::test_quick_select

The crash was caused by an incomplete cleanup of JOIN_TAB::select
during the filesort of rows for GROUP BY clause inside a subquery.
Queries where a quick index access is replaced with filesort was
was affected. For example:

  SELECT 1 FROM
    (SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT c1) FROM t1
       WHERE c2 IN (1, 1) AND c3 = 2 GROUP BY c2) x

Quick index access related data in the SQL_SELECT::test_quick_select
function was inconsistent after an incomplete cleanup.
This function has been completed to prevent crashes in the
SQL_SELECT::test_quick_select function.

"freeing items"

The calculation of the table map log event in the event constructor
was one byte shorter than what would be actually written. This would
lead to a mismatch between the number of bytes written and the event
end_log_pos, causing bad event alignment in the binlog (corrupted
binlog) or in the transaction cache while fixing positions
(MYSQL_BIN_LOG::write_cache). This could lead to impossible to read
binlog or even infinite loops in MYSQL_BIN_LOG::write_cache.

This patch addresses this issue by correcting the expected event
length in the Table_map_log_event constructor, when the field metadata
size exceeds 255.

Problem: using LOAD_FILE() in some cases we pass a file name string
without a trailing '\0' to fn_format() which relies on that however.
That may lead to valgrind warnings.

Fix: add a trailing '\0' to the file name passed to fn_format().

The problem is that the internal variable used to specify a
transaction with consistent read was being used outside the
processing context of a START TRANSACTION WITH CONSISTENT
SNAPSHOT statement. The practical consequence was that a
consistent snapshot specification could leak to unrelated
transactions on the same session.

The solution is to ensure a consistent snapshot clause is
only relied upon for the START TRANSACTION statement.

This is already fixed in a similar way on 6.0.

      
In the output from mysqlbinlog, incident log events were
represented as just a comment. Since the incident log event
represents an incident that could cause the contents of the
database to change without being logged to the binary log,
it means that if the SQL is applied to a server, it could
potentially lead to that the databases are out of sync.

In order to handle that, this patch adds the statement "RELOAD
DATABASE" to the SQL output for the incident log event. This will
require a DBA to edit the file and handle the case as apropriate
before applying the output to a server.

Problem: storing "SELECT ... INTO @var ..." results in variables we used val_xxx()
methods which returned results of the current row. 
So, in some cases (e.g. SELECT DISTINCT, GROUP BY or HAVING) we got data
from the first row of a new group (where we evaluate a clause) instead of
data from the last row of the previous group.

Fix: use val_xxx_result() counterparts to get proper results.

utility. (Bug #41883, patch by Nicklas Westerlund)

to an empty string, or to /dev/null, as we suggest and have suggested in the
documentation. (Bug #34224)

quote them in later use. (Bug #33685, based on a patch by Hartmut Holzgraefe)

backwards, which resulted in the incorrect time being reported at the
end of mysqldump. (Bug #44424, patch by Andrew Hutchings)

handle the --skip-password option correctly. (Bug #28479)

based on a contribution by Ask Bjørn Hansen)

which didn't actually do anything. (Bug #39101)

  
The --hexdump option crashed mysqlbinlog when used together  
with the --read-from-remote-server option due to use of  
uninitialized memory.  
  
Since Log_event::print_header() relies on temp_buf to be  
initialized when the --hexdump option is present,  
dump_remote_log_entries() was fixed to setup temp_buf to point  
to the start of a binlog event as done in  
dump_local_log_entries().  
 
The root cause of this bug is identical to the one for 
bug #17654. The latter was fixed in 5.1 and up, so this 
patch is backport of the patches for bug #17654 to 5.0. 
 
Only 5.0 needs a changelog entry.