The following features are planned for inclusion into MySQL 5.0. Some of the features such as stored procedures are complete and are included in MySQL 5.0 alpha, which is available now. Others such as cursors are only partially available. Expect these and other features to mature and be fully supported in upcoming releases.
Note that because we have many developers that are working on different projects, there will also be many additional features. There is also a small chance that some of these features will be added to MySQL 4.1. For a list what is already done in MySQL 4.1, see Nutshell 4.1 features.
For those wishing to take a look at the bleeding edge of MySQL development, we make our BitKeeper repository for MySQL version 5.0 publicly available. See Installing source tree. As of December 2003, binary builds of version 5.0 are also available.
Stored Procedures
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New functionality
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Standards compliance, portability and migration
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Speed enhancements
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Usability enhancements
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The news section of this manual includes a more in-depth list of features. See News-5.0.x.