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>   This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.15, including
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>     Remove security vulnerability that allowed connected users
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>     The vulnerability involves suppressing the normal check that a SQL
     function returns the data type it's declared to, or changing the
     data type of a table column used in a SQL function (CVE-2007-0555).
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     principle might be used to read database content that the user
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>     Fix rare bug wherein btree index page splits could fail
     due to choosing an infeasible split point (Heikki Linnakangas)
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>     Fix for rare Assert() crash triggered by <TT
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>     Tighten security of multi-byte character processing for UTF8 sequences
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