This document discusses third party patches for MySQL that provide quick wins and new features. It summarizes five such patches: 1) Slow query filtering which helps identify expensive queries, 2) Index statistics which helps determine unused indexes, 3) An InnoDB dictionary limit which constrains memory usage, 4) A global long query time setting, and 5) A "fix" for InnoDB group commit performance regressions in MySQL 5.0. The document encourages using third party patches to gain features and improvements not yet available in the MySQL core.