As you might noticed there are no recent MySQL Community versions available for download from MySQL Download Area This applies both to binaries (which is expected with new polices) but also to the source files which were promised to be available.
So what is if you would like to use recent MySQL code while staying with community version ? I chatted with Monty on this topic today.
Download sources from MySQL FTP Site I have no idea why this location is not advertised on download pages but it really has sources for all recent releases, both for Unix and Windows.
Use MySQL Supplied by Distribution Vendor. Some vendors already offering MySQL 5.0.30 - Gentoo, Ubuntu and Debian at the time of this writing. Fedora might also get update soon.
Use Bitkeeper Tree If you would like absolutely recent version this is a way to go. The address for MySQL 5.0 is
bk://mysql.bkbits.net/mysql-5.0 (HowTo Docs) Note version you find where is untested and might be broken so be careful. In theory you can also pull all previous releases by their tags but in practice it requires licensed BitKeeper version which few people have access to.
What is about free MySQL Enterprise Version ? Well at the time of this writing as far as I know source tree for Enterprise and Community version is the same so there is no difference. Once split will really happen we’ll see if it would be available.
What is about Binaries ? As I mentioned some Linux distributions already include up to date MySQL versions, this obviously means binaries are available as well. If you’re using other Linux distribution, other Unix or Windows operation system you should ether build one yourself, find binaries from truster third party or hire someone, (for example us) to build ones for you.


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