Adjusted Nutshell's 4.x timeline projection.

The rollout of MySQL 4.0 will come in several steps, with

the first version labelled 4.0.0 already containing most of the

new features. Additional features will be incorporated into

MySQL 4.0.1, 4.0.2 onwards; very probably within two months,

MySQL 4.0.1, 4.0.2 onwards; very probably within a couple of months,

MySQL 4.0 will be labelled beta. Further new features will then

be added in MySQL 4.1, which is targeted for alpha release

in December/January.

in early 2002.

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@subsection Ready for Immediate Development Use

Users are not recommended to switch their production systems

to MySQL 4.0 until it is released in beta version later Q4/2001.

to MySQL 4.0 until it is released in beta version.

However, even the initial release has passed our extensive

test suite without any errors on any of the platforms we test on.

Due to the large number of new features, we thus recommend