New Enhancements!
This release represents a stable release of the product. Along with several defect patches, we also include the following enhancements.
Improved support for MySQL 5.7 early releases
Improved output for mysqldbcompare
Improved SSL support
New Utilities!
This release also has three new utilities for you to try out:
mysqlslavetrx - skip transactions on one or more slaves to solve errant transactions and consistency errors - docs
mysqlbinlogpurge - purge old binary logs - docs
mysqlbinlogrotate - rotate the binary logs - docs
How Can I Download MySQL Utilities?
You can download MySQL Utilities 1.6.1 Alpha from the following link using one of the pre-built installation repositories including a source download. Click on "Development Releases" to see the 1.6.1 release downloads.
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/utilities/
Where is the Documentation?
You can find online documentation for MySQL Utilities version 1.6 at:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/index-utils-fabric.html