new read-only server variable version_ssl_library that shows the version of currently used SSL library.
new command-line option --getopt-prefix-matching that makes it possible to disable historical "unambiguous prefix" matching in the command-line option parsing.
Improved concurrency: table definition cache now has lock-free implementation completely avoiding any global locks.
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now supports and prints more optimizations (range+MRR, "range checked
for each record", full scan on NULL key, expensive constants, etc)