The original symptoms of this bug have been fixed as a consequence of other bug fixes.
Taking this time to correct some formatting, such as replacing error numbers with names.
Beginning this with 5.0

When storing a NULL to a TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT ...,
NULL returned from some functions threw a 'cannot be NULL error.'

NULL-returns now correctly result in the timestamp-field being
assigned its default value.

            
If the system time is adjusted back during a query execution
(resulting in the end time being earlier than the start time)
the code that prints to the slow query log gets confused and 
prints unsigned negative numbers.
            
Fixed by not logging the statements that would have negative
execution time due to time shifts.
No test case since this would involve changing the system time.

            messed up

"ROW(...) IN (SELECT ... FROM DUAL)" always returned TRUE.

Item_in_subselect::row_value_transformer rewrites "ROW(...)
IN SELECT" conditions into the "EXISTS (SELECT ... HAVING ...)"
form.
For a subquery from the DUAL pseudotable resulting HAVING
condition is an expression on constant values, so further
transformation with optimize_cond() eliminates this HAVING
condition and resets JOIN::having to NULL.
Then JOIN::exec treated that NULL as an always-true-HAVING
and that caused a bug.

To distinguish an optimized out "HAVING TRUE" clause from
"HAVING FALSE" we already have the JOIN::having_value flag.
However, JOIN::exec() ignored JOIN::having_value as described
above as if it always set to COND_TRUE.

The JOIN::exec method has been modified to take into account
the value of the JOIN::having_value field.

Dirty close tricky does not work on Windows.

      
Re-generated the PKI files needed.
Removed the ones that are not needed.
Updated the tests to reference the correct SSL subject.

Check for existence of diff fails on Solaris due to unsupported "-v"
Fix is to do this check only on Windows where it was needed

packages, this is now corrected (Bug#42278)

The problem is that the query cache was storing partial results
if the statement failed when sending the results to the client.
This could cause clients to hang when trying to read the results
from the cache as they would, for example, wait indefinitely for
a eof packet that wasn't saved.

The solution is to always discard the caching of a query that
failed to send its results to the associated client.

This is not the final merge of that release build, but we need early
access to these tool fixes (use of "awk" in the BDB configuration).

with mysql_change_user) to 5.0.

Views weren't sync()d the same way other structures were.

In creating the FRM for views, obey the same rules for variable 
"sync_frm" as for everything else.

The problem is that the query cache stores packets containing
the server status of the time when the cached statement was run.
This might lead to a wrong transaction status in the client side
if a statement is cached during a transaction and is later served
outside a transaction context (and vice-versa).

The solution is to take into account the transaction status when
storing in and serving from the query cache.

The default "awk" there cannot handle some of the scripts
which are used by BDB for configuration.

The fix:
1) Introduce a variable "AWK" in some of the BDB shell scripts,
2) search "gawk" and give it precedence over "awk"
   when assigning a value to the "AWK" variable,
   fail if neither is found,
3) use that variable when calling an "awk" program with one
   of the critical scripts.

The perfect solution would be to use the "awk" program found
by "configure", but we cannot follow that approach because
BDB's configuration is handled as a special case before the
overall "configure" is run. Because of this,
1) the "configure" result isn't yet available,
2) "configure" will not handle these BDB files.
Searching "gawk" is a (not-so-nice) way out.

Note that all this need not be perfectly portable,
it is needed only when we create a source distribution tarball
from a develkopment tree.

      
The greedy optimizer tracks the current level of nested joins and the position
inside these by setting and maintaining a state that's global for the whole FROM
clause.
This state was correctly maintained inside the selection of the next partial plan
table (in best_extension_by_limited_search()). 
greedy_search() also moves the current position by adding the last partial match 
table when there's not enough tables in the partial plan found by 
best_extension_by_limited_search().
This may require update of the global state variables that describe the current
position in the plan if the last table placed by greedy_search is not a top-level 
join table.
Fixed by updating the state after placing the partial plan table in greedy_search()
in the same way this is done on entering the best_extension_by_limited_search().
Fixed the signature of the function called to update the state : 
check_interleaving_with_nj

Bug #39920: MySQL cannot deal with Leap Second expression in string literal.

Updated MySQL time handling code to react correctly on UTC leap second additions.
MySQL functions that return the OS current time, like e.g. CURDATE(), NOW() etc
will return :59:59 instead of :59:60 or 59:61.
As a result the reader will receive :59:59 for 2 or 3 consecutive seconds
during the leap second.

Original changesets:
> revision-id: kgeorge@mysql.com-20081201141835-rg8nnnadujj5wl9f
> parent: gshchepa@mysql.com-20081114172557-xh0jlzwal8ze3cy6
> committer: Georgi Kodinov <kgeorge@mysql.com>
> branch nick: B39920-5.0-bugteam
> timestamp: Mon 2008-12-01 16:18:35 +0200

> revision-id: kgeorge@mysql.com-20081201154106-c310zzy5or043rqa
> parent: kgeorge@mysql.com-20081201145656-6kjq91oga5nxbbob
> committer: Georgi Kodinov <kgeorge@mysql.com>
> branch nick: B39920-merge-5.0-bugteam
> timestamp: Mon 2008-12-01 17:41:06 +0200

Bug#34760 Character set autodetection appears to fail
the problem is the same as reported in bug#20835,
so the fix is backport of bug#20835 patch.

Original changeset:
> revision-id: sergey.glukhov@sun.com-20081121123959-58ffhp2nitg7f40h
> parent: ramil@mysql.com-20081120100836-gct60cm67b1rui29
> committer: Sergey Glukhov <Sergey.Glukhov@sun.com>
> branch nick: mysql-5.0-bugteam
> timestamp: Fri 2008-11-21 16:39:59 +0400

BUG#38842 - Fix for 25951 seems incorrect

Original changeset:
> revision-id: svoj@mysql.com-20081111091051-54pr96nf1z2s30gx
> parent: vvaintroub@mysql.com-20081110201804-bi98gcs9avsf58ff
> committer: Sergey Vojtovich <svoj@mysql.com>
> branch nick: mysql-5.0-bugteam-bug38842
> timestamp: Tue 2008-11-11 13:10:51 +0400

Bug #40021: Renaming view fails, archived .frm for view is
            missing after downgrade

Original changeset:
> revision-id: gshchepa@mysql.com-20081114172557-xh0jlzwal8ze3cy6
> parent: ramil@mysql.com-20081114074229-vj4fvfrpmz8jfub9
> committer: Gleb Shchepa <gshchepa@mysql.com>
> branch nick: mysql-5.0-bugteam
> timestamp: Fri 2008-11-14 21:25:57 +0400

Remove bashisms from BUILD/compile-dist and configure.in,
so Bootstrap works on Solaris box;
- force GNU make in compile-dist;
- remove unportable "grep -q" from configure.in

Original changeset:
  revision-id: build@mysql.com-20081203041148-icwscut3bk09ds47
  parent: kgeorge@mysql.com-20081202125040-eiu6s7bk6s96s4xh
  author: timothy.smith@sun.com
  committer: MySQL Build Team <build@mysql.com>
  branch nick: mysql-5.0.74-release
  timestamp: Wed 2008-12-03 05:11:48 +0100