My grandmother still runs 3.23 on her Radio Shack Home Server kit. ;)

Even so, and with all due respect to dear grand-ma, I say ditch 3.23 going forward. Like 1.8.X lives the life it lives and 1.9.* expect 4.1 and beyond. A quick visit to http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ shows that mysql thinks of 4.1 as "older", so if that's what they call 'old' then anything older is really freaking old.

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So ... uh ... when are you going to obsolete all those 0.9.0.* versions of b2evolution?
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I use 4.1 and 5.0 on different setups...

But if users want to use a old database server, then let them use a old version of b2evo.

btw, i don't think the forum is the best place to do a major poll like this, i think the max votes i've ever got was around 10...

It's not a major poll (yet), just checking if the water's hot :p

Ed, MySQL is living in geekland were everybody runs 5.1... but the reality of the shared hosts is somewhat different :P

Understood. So really the question is the same as one you polled a while back: what version of mysql does your host provide you with?

I get to use "4.1.19-standard" for my stuff (shared hosting account) and "4.0.25-standard-log" is what antispam central has. I can't see any reason to ever upgrade antispam's version other than the possibility of a security vulnerability showing up one day. IF that happens then it can move to 1.8 without worry.

Yope that's the question.

Btw, if so's interested: [url=http://fplanque.net/Blog/devblog/2004/12/06/mysql_features_by_version_breakdown]MySQL feature breakdown by version[/url].

Ah. So then it'd probably be a good thing if I were to READ THE F****** QUESTION!!!

My host has 4.1 but every now and then, they send a mail that the users who realy need 5.0, can send them a mail, and they would move that pakage.

They have a zillion 4.1 servers and only one 5.0

So strictly both are possible.

I used 4.1 but some hosts still provide 4.0 :-(