This is a release of MySQL, a GPL (free) SQL database server (more
licence information in the PUBLIC file and in the reference manual).

Please read the "Upgrading from..." section in the manual first, if you are
migrating from older versions of MySQL!

The latest information about MySQL can be found at:
http://www.mysql.com

To see what it can do take a look at the features section in the
manual.

For installation instructions see the Installation chapter in the
manual.

For future plans see the TODO appendix in the manual.

New features/bug fixes history is in the news appendix in the manual.

For the currently known bugs/misfeatures (known errors) see the bugs
appendix in the manual.

For examples of SQL and benchmarking information see the bench
directory.

The manual mentioned above can be found in the Docs directory. The
manual is available in the following formats: as plain ASCII text in
Docs/manual.txt, in HTML format in Docs/manual_toc.html, as GNU Info in
Docs/mysql.info and as PostScript in Docs/manual.ps.

MySQL is brought to you by the MySQL team at MySQL AB

For a list of developers and other contributors, see the Credits appendix
in the manual.

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IMPORTANT:

Send bug (error) reports, questions and comments to the mailing list
at mysql@lists.mysql.com

Please use the 'mysqlbug' script when posting bug reports or questions
about MySQL. mysqlbug will gather some information about your system
and start your editor with a form in which you can describe your
problem. Bug reports might be silently ignored by the MySQL
maintainers if there is not a good reason included in the report as to
why mysqlbug has not been used. A report that says 'MySQL does not
work for me. Why?' is not considered a valid bug report.

The mysqlbug script can be found in the 'scripts' directory of the
distribution, that is '<where-you-installed-mysql>/scripts'.