MySQL Bugs: #95851: MySQL 5.5, 5.6 don't have keyring feature, but manual mentioned them.

Bug #95851	MySQL 5.5, 5.6 don't have keyring feature, but manual mentioned them.
Submitted:	18 Jun 2019 4:29	Modified:	25 Jul 2019 13:39
Reporter:	Meiji Kimura	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Documentation	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.5, 5.6	OS:	Any
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
MySQL EE(Enterprise Edition) provided the Keyring feature in MySQL 5.7 or later.

But they mentioned in MySQL 5.5 and 5.6 manual as belows, and linked MySQL 5.7 manual.

o MySQL Enterprise Edition includes a keyring plugin that uses Oracle Key Vault as a back end for keyring storage. For more information, see The MySQL Keyring. 

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysql-enterprise-security.html
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-enterprise-security.html

Please omit this sentence from these MySQL 5.5/5.6 manual !

"MySQL Enterprise Edition includes a keyring plugin that uses Oracle Key Vault as a back end for keyring storage. For more information, see The MySQL Keyring." 

How to repeat:
See this section of MySQL 5.5, 5.6's manual.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysql-enterprise-security.html
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-enterprise-security.html

Suggested fix:
Remove this sentence from MySQL 5.5/5.6's manual.

"MySQL Enterprise Edition includes a keyring plugin that uses Oracle Key Vault as a back end for keyring storage. For more information, see The MySQL Keyring."

Hello Meiji-San,

Thank you for the report.

regards,
Umesh

MySQL Enterprise Masking is also supported in MySQL 5.7 or later,
So should be removed these page from MySQL 5.5/5.6 manual.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysql-enterprise-data-masking.html
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-enterprise-data-masking.html

Posted by developer:
 
The same content is included into the reference manual for every MySQL series, so, rather than remove anything, I have amended descriptions of features not present in all series to indicate the initial series in which they occur.