We’re pleased to announce that the Falcon beta is now out and available.  Falcon is MySQL’s new transaction storage engine, and offers a number of nice features for those developing applications that have transactional needs.  Falcon has all the standard transactional features you’d expect (ACID compliance, MVCC, crash recovery, etc) and some other items you will likely find helpful to have (user-defined tablespaces, SQL-based diagnostics for locking, I/O, and more.)

Please download the new Falcon beta (note that the Falcon beta is in the 6.0.4 alpha binary) and let us know what bugs you find or enhancements you’d like to see - your feedback is (as always) greatly appreciated! If you’re new to Falcon, you can check out the various tech white papers, getting started guides and FAQ’s on our 6.0 info page.

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