Bug #65775 On TOP please, not BOTTOM.
Submitted: 30 Jun 2012 14:53 Modified: 9 Jul 2012 13:46
Reporter: Peter Laursen (Basic Quality Contributor) Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.5.25 OS:Any
Assigned to: Paul DuBois CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: qc

[30 Jun 2012 14:53] Peter Laursen
Description:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-25.html tells (at the bottom). 

"Note

 MySQL 5.5.25 is superseded by MySQL 5.5.25a due to a regression bug that can cause excessive disk usage (for details, see Bug #65745). Current users of 5.5.25: Monitor disk usage and upgrade to 5.5.25a as soon as that is made available. Users contemplating upgrades to 5.5.25: Defer and upgrade to 5.5.25a instead when that is made available."

How to repeat:
See above. Also I can state that 5.5.25 has been removed from dev.mysql.com downloads page and FTP mirrors (such as ftp://ftp.easynet.be/mysql/Downloads/MySQL-5.5/) and 5.5.25a is not yet available

Suggested fix:
This alert should be visible on top and not hidden at the bottom of version release notes.
[30 Jun 2012 14:57] Peter Laursen
typo fix in synopsis
[30 Jun 2012 15:40] Hartmut Holzgraefe
... and in RED or some other style that clearly lets it stand out ...
[30 Jun 2012 18:12] Peter Laursen
Actually the way it is formatted:

SHOW TABLES was very slow unless the required information was already in the disk cache. (Bug #60961, Bug #12427262)
<indentation>Note ..

.. makes it look like this is related to Bug #60961 what I don't believe it is.
[30 Jun 2012 19:30] Valeriy Kravchuk
This is already somewhat fixed (note is on TOP), but I'd still prefer red and more severe class of message, WARNING, ALERT or something like that.
[9 Jul 2012 13:46] Paul DuBois
Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been addressed in the documentation. The updated documentation will appear on our website shortly, and will be included in the next release of the relevant products

Having the note at the bottom was a transient problem that has already been addressed.