Chassis
* added support for SIGHUP to reopen logfiles
* added win32-service support
* added --basedir
* added experimental --log-backtrace-on-crash
* added DTrace probes
* added a angel to keep the chasses alive
* added --user option to change the system user the proxy runs as
* added config-file support that maps cmdline options to configfile options
Core
* fixed handling of RBR for long multi-byte CHAR() fields (#37426)
* fixed assertions when COM_TIME, COM_PROCESS_INFO or COM_DEBUG are received
* replaced assertions in protocol decoders by proper error-codes
* added handling of the 4.0 auth packets
* added parser for 'master.info' files
* added a writev() network backend
Lua Layer
* expose chassis_log_* functions to lua
* added the posix and lpeg module from luaforge
* use the LPEG lua-module to parse statements
* added memory profiling
* added { resultset_is_needed = false } as default
* moved proxy.backends.* to proxy.global.backends.*
* added a lua-wrapper around some glib-2.0 functions
* added a script cache
* removed explicit call to lua_gc() to improve the speed
Proxy Plugin
* track rows and bytes of a resultset
* fixed quoting of SQL commands like COMMIT and ROLLBACK (r435)
* added test-cases for connection-pooling, fail-over, ...
* refactored the SQL tokenizer into a lua module
* fixed handling -- comments in the SQL tokenizer
* fixed backend state cache
Admin Plugin
* replaced the hardcoded admin commands by a lua script interface
* added authentication support
Debug Plugin
* return "number" as DOUBLE or INTs
MySQL Binlog Dump
* added a library and cmdline interface to dump binlogs incl. MySQL 5.1 RBR
MyISAM Dump
* added mysql-myisam-dump to dump the content of a .FRM files and .MYD files