db4free.net runs dev source version again (5.1.12)

It's three months ago since MySQL 5.1.11 was released and many things have changed since then. Just watch the Change Log for 5.1.12 - I believe it's one of the longest ever:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-12.html

But I've found another nice and interesting thing: watch this bug report. This says that it's now allowed to do many more things in Prepared Statements inside Stored Procedures:

SHOW BINLOG EVENTS
SHOW (MASTER | SLAVE) STATUS
SHOW (MASTER | BINARY) LOGS
SHOW (PROCEDURE | FUNCTION) CODE (parsable only in debug builds)
SHOW CREATE (PROCEDURE | FUNCTION | EVENT | TABLE | VIEW)
SHOW (AUTHORS | CONTRIBUTORS | WARNINGS | ERRORS)
CHANGE MASTER
RESET (MASTER | SLAVE | QUERY CACHE)
SLAVE (START | STOP)
CHECKSUM (TABLE | TABLES)
INSTALL PLUGIN
UNINSTALL PLUGIN
CACHE INDEX
LOAD INDEX INTO CACHE
GRANT
REVOKE
KILL
(CREATE | RENAME | DROP) DATABASE
(CREATE | RENAME | DROP) USER
FLUSH (TABLE | TABLES | TABLES WITH READ LOCK | HOSTS | PRIVILEGES |
LOGS | STATUS | MASTER | SLAVE | DES_KEY_FILE | USER_RESOURCES)

Ain't that nice? This gives a lot more flexibility to dynamic SQL! (I know some guys who will have a lot of fun with that ;-))

This was reason enough for me to update the MySQL 5.1 server (on Port 3307) on db4free.net to this latest Development Source version. So you can try out all the nice enhancements that have been introduced in the last three months.

Enjoy!