Fixed configure problems with HPUX and openbsd
SHOW SLAVE STATUS returns empty set if slave is not initialized
SHOW MASTER STATUS returns empty set if binary logging is not enabled.
Fixed shutdown problem on Solaris.

Fix for syntax error bug in SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION

Make safe_mysqld a symlink to mysqld_safe in binary distribution
Fixed problem with CTRL-C when using mysqld --bootstrap

Made a some new buffers thread specific and changeable.
Resize of key_buffer.
AUTO_COMMIT -> AUTOCOMMIT
Fixed mutex bug in DROP DATABASE
Fixed bug when using auto_increment as second part of a key where first part could include NULL.
Split handler->extra() to extra() and extra_opt() to be able to support thread specific buffers.
Don't write message to error log when slave reconnects becasue of timeout.
Fixed possible update problem when using DELETE/UPDATE on small tables
(In some cases we used index even if table scanning would be better)
A lot of minior code cleanups

Added statistics information for alarms (for bug tracking)
Don't store "incomplete" in the xxx.cfg file if we are not using --restart. (Crash-me)
Enlarged STACK_BUF_ALLOC becasue of failed crash-me test
Aded new script mysql_tableinfo to make a system directory.

(All commit emails since 4.0.1 checked)
This had to be done now, before the 4.1 tree changes to much, to make it easy to propagate bug fixes to the 4.1 tree.

Change TRUNCATE(number) to truncate towards zero for negative numbers
Fix NULL handling for DESCRIBE table_name

Changed some status variable names
Fix bug in GRANT ... PASSWORD string

Fixed slowdown problem on win98
Fixed syntax for ALTER TABLE .. RENAME

Changed in client library character-set-dir -> character-sets-dir

Fixed stack overflow checking with crash-me with gcc 3.0.4
Using @@unknown_variable doesn't hang client anymore
Added @@VERSION variable

Don't use DBUG library for struct st_my_thread_var to make code less complicated.

Fix bug when using option groups

Fix for --enable-local-infile
Portability fix for bison

Fixed data corruption bug in query cache.
Made queries be dependent of the database in use.

Changed 'send_file_to_server' to use less stack (Fixed replication problem on OSF1).

Added new operators to be used with gcc 3.0.x
Update of query cache code.
Added semaphores for Windows (not yet in use)
Added pthread_mutex_trylock for windows.

Fixed memory leak on shutdown (Affects the embedded version & MyODBC)

not found by the client.  This is especially important for PHP, which
only includes the latin1 character set in the bundled libmysql.

Merged error messages with 3.23.44
Fixed bug with DATA DIRECTORY on windows

removal of duplicate code in mf_iocache.cc 
work on failsafe replication
work on SEQ_READ_APPEND io cache

Added missing InnoDB variables to SHOW VARIABLES.
Fixed bug when doing WHERE 'column_name=NULL' on an indexed column that had NULL values.
Fixed bug when doing 'LEFT JOIN ...  ON (column_name = constant) WHERE column_name = constant'

Safer, a bit faster filesort.
Code changes to avoid calls to current_thd() (faster code).
Removed all compiler warnings from readline.

use $MAX_TABLES mysqltest variable to make join test portable
make test now works with the manager on IA64 Linux

Speed up column-completion in 'mysql'
Don't use ISAM if HAVE_ISAM is not defined
A lot of fixes for the embedded version.  All libraries are now included in libmysqld.a
Changed arguments to convert_dirname() to make it more general.
Renamed files in the 'merge' directory to all use a common prefix.
Don't compile both assembler and C functions on x86

Fix that compressed packets and normal packets looks indentical before calling net_real_write()
(Needed for query cache)
Optimize IS NULL handling

Fixes for embedded server
Made key_cache more configurable
Fixed that one can change key blocksize in MyISAM
A lot of optimizations to make MyISAM slightly faster

Fixes for embedded libary and openssl