Bug #59509 version information incomplete
Submitted: 14 Jan 2011 16:28 Modified: 18 Aug 2017 12:11
Reporter: Peter Laursen (Basic Quality Contributor) Email Updates:
Status: Not a Bug Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Packaging Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.5.8 OS:Windows
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: qc, regression

[14 Jan 2011 16:28] Peter Laursen 
Description:
Except for the version numbers 5.5.8 no additional version appears

How to repeat:
On 5.5.8:

SELECT VERSION(); -- returns "5.5.8"

on 5.1.54

SELECT VERSION(); -- returns "5.1.54-community"

Suggested fix:
I assume that the omission of "community" is a build/packaging error!
[14 Jan 2011 17:38] Peter Laursen 
I should have told it is a .msi installer package.

It is from this download link:
ftp://mirrors.dotsrc.org/mysql/Downloads/MySQL-5.5/mysql-5.5.8-winx64.msi
[17 Jan 2011 9:31] Valeriy Kravchuk 
Actually, 32-bit version (from .msi package) has the same problem:

C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin>mysql -uroot -proot -P3312 test
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 20
Server version: 5.5.8 MySQL Community Server (GPL)

Copyright (c) 2000, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql> select version();
+-----------+
| version() |
+-----------+
| 5.5.8     |
+-----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
[18 Aug 2017 12:11] Yngve Svendsen 
It has been hard to come by information as to exactly why this change was made, except it was intentional at the time. Since we don't plan to make any changes to the current state of things, I am closing this now.