Our own Jeremy Zawodny covers new features in MySQL for version 4.0 at Linux Magazine. It looks like a ton of great new features are on their way, though it should be transparent to the end user:
Most of the development work in 4.0 has focused on three areas: enhancing existing features and performance, adding new features, and changing the architecture of the MySQL software to provide for future growth. There’s simply not enough room here to discuss all of the changes in MySQL 4.0, so we’ll focus on the major enhancements in 4.0, and dig into the most significant new features.
It looks like 4.0 will bring enhanced replication, transactions, SSL support, and other great stuff. Excellent article, Jeremy. [via OSNews]