GRANT used with IDENTIFIED BY didn't take effect until privileges
were flushed.
SHOW STATUS.
ORDER BY with 'only index' optimisation when there
were multiple key definitions for a used column.
DATE and DATETIME columns are now up to 5 times faster than
before.
INSERT DELAYED can be used to let the client do other things while the
server inserts rows into a table.
LEFT JOIN USING (col1,col2) didn't work if one used it with tables
from 2 different databases.
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE didn't work in the Unix version because of
a missing file.
VARCHAR/BLOB on very short rows (< 4 bytes);
error 127 could occur when deleting rows.
BLOB/TEXT through formulas didn't work for short (< 256 char)
strings.
GRANT on a new host, mysqld could die on the first
connect from this host.
ORDER BY on column name that was the same
name as an alias.
BENCHMARK(loop_count,expression) function to time expressions.