Important: Starting from MySQL 4.1.3, InnoDB uses the same character set comparison functions as MySQL for non-latin1_swedish_ci character strings that are not BINARY. This changes the sorting order of space and characters < ASCII(32) in those character sets. For latin1_swedish_ci character strings and BINARY strings, InnoDB uses its own pad-spaces-at-end comparison method, which stays unchanged. If you have an InnoDB table created with MySQL 4.1.2 or earlier, with an index on a non-latin1 character set (in the case of 4.1.0 and 4.1.1 with any character set) CHAR/VARCHAR/or TEXT column that is not BINARY but may contain characters < ASCII(32), then you should do ALTER TABLE or OPTIMIZE table on it to regenerate the index, after upgrading to MySQL 4.1.3 or later.

OPTIMIZE TABLE for InnoDB tables is now mapped to ALTER TABLE rather than to ANALYZE TABLE.

Added an interface for storing the binlog offset in the InnoDB log and flushing the log.

The critical bug in 4.1.2 (crash recovery skipping all .ibd files if you specify innodb_file_per_table on Unix) has been fixed. The bug was a combination of two bugs. Crash recovery ignored the files, because the attempt to lock them in the wrong mode failed. From now on, locks will only be obtained for regular files opened in read/write mode, and crash recovery will stop if an .ibd file for a table exists in a database directory but is unaccessible.

Do not remember the original select_lock_type inside LOCK TABLES. (Bug#4047)

The special meaning of the table names innodb_monitor, innodb_lock_monitor, innodb_tablespace_monitor, innodb_table_monitor, and innodb_validate in CREATE TABLE and DROP TABLE statements was accidentally removed in MySQL/InnoDB-4.1.2. The diagnostic functions attached to these special table names (see Section 15.12.1, « Le moniteur InnoDB ») are accessible again in MySQL/InnoDB-4.1.3.

When the private SQL parser of InnoDB was modified in MySQL/InnoDB-4.0.19 in order to allow the use of the apostrophe (‘'’) in table and column names, the fix relied on a previously unused function mem_realloc(), whose implementation was incorrect. As a result, InnoDB can incorrectly parse column and table names as the empty string. The InnoDB realloc() implementation has been corrected in MySQL/InnoDB-4.1.3.

In a clean-up of MySQL/InnoDB-4.1.2, the code for invalidating the query cache was broken. Now the query cache should be correctly invalidated for tables affected by ON UPDATE CASCADE or ON DELETE CASCADE constraints.

Fixed a bug : in LIKE 'abc%', the '%' did not match the empty string if the character set was not latin1_swedish_ci. This bug was fixed by changing the sorting order in these character sets. See the above note about data conversion in 4.1.3.