diff --git a/Docs/manual.texi b/Docs/manual.texi
index 1de38a43aa696f69f135396c0d18ec3fee78bcd7..9729033b56b26df31ea24724ebc7bc57f706c8e2 100644
--- a/Docs/manual.texi
+++ b/Docs/manual.texi
@@ -990,7 +990,6 @@ Changes in release 4.0.x (Development; Alpha)
 
 Changes in release 3.23.x  (Stable)
 
-* News-3.23.39a::               
 * News-3.23.39::                Changes in release 3.23.39
 * News-3.23.38::                Changes in release 3.23.38
 * News-3.23.37::                Changes in release 3.23.37
@@ -46310,7 +46309,6 @@ users use this code as the rest of the code and because of this we are
 not yet 100% confident in this code.
 
 @menu
-* News-3.23.39a::               
 * News-3.23.39::                Changes in release 3.23.39
 * News-3.23.38::                Changes in release 3.23.38
 * News-3.23.37::                Changes in release 3.23.37
@@ -46354,14 +46352,7 @@ not yet 100% confident in this code.
 * News-3.23.0::                 Changes in release 3.23.0
 @end menu
 
-@node News-3.23.39a, News-3.23.39, News-3.23.x, News-3.23.x
-@appendixsubsec Changes in release 3.23.39a
-@itemize @bullet
-@item
-Fixed a small bug in the mysql-test benchmark suite
-@end itemize
-
-@node News-3.23.39, News-3.23.38, News-3.23.39a, News-3.23.x
+@node News-3.23.39, News-3.23.38, News-3.23.x, News-3.23.x
 @appendixsubsec Changes in release 3.23.39
 @itemize @bullet
 @item
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 1b95a5d580083da5700ca1b37ca1d9b5976fc2d2..37bc22ff63ecee0df71847fab9a1b42e95d40437 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 AC_INIT(sql/mysqld.cc)
 AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM
 # The Docs Makefile.am parses this line!
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(mysql, 3.23.39a)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(mysql, 3.23.39)
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 
 PROTOCOL_VERSION=10
diff --git a/innobase/include/univ.i b/innobase/include/univ.i
index d29ca83b0fc398426bddfcaf8787509450fbab3f..4c67f49d19957e8c513a54d46a69a874a3a0b6df 100644
--- a/innobase/include/univ.i
+++ b/innobase/include/univ.i
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ subdirectory of 'mysql'. */
 /* Include the header file generated by GNU autoconf */
 #include "../ib_config.h"
 
+#undef UNIV_INTEL_X86	/* Temporary fix for gcc 2.96 */
+
 #ifdef HAVE_SCHED_H
 #include <sched.h>
 #endif