diff --git a/docs/install.txt b/docs/install.txt
index f2e10d5807e..df12f5fc2e0 100644
--- a/docs/install.txt
+++ b/docs/install.txt
@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ If you plan to use Django's database API functionality, you'll need to
 make sure a database server is running. Django works with PostgreSQL_
 (recommended) or MySQL_.
 
+Note that MySQL support is a recent development, and Django hasn't been
+comprehensively tested with that database. If you find any bugs in Django's
+MySQL bindings, please file them in `Django's ticket system`_ so we can fix them
+immediately.
+
+
 Additionally, you'll need to make sure your Python database bindings are
 installed. If you're using PostgreSQL, you'll need the psycopg_
 package (version 1 -- not version 2, which is still in beta). If you're using
@@ -36,6 +42,7 @@ MySQL, you'll need MySQLdb_.
 
 .. _PostgreSQL: http://www.postgresql.org/
 .. _MySQL: http://www.mysql.com/
+.. _`Django's ticket system: http://code.djangoproject.com/report/1
 .. _psycopg: http://initd.org/projects/psycopg1
 .. _MySQLdb: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python
 
diff --git a/docs/overview.txt b/docs/overview.txt
index 242b5991ac4..9e4327ef59c 100644
--- a/docs/overview.txt
+++ b/docs/overview.txt
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ Install it
 
 Next, run the Django command-line utility. It'll create the database tables for
 you automatically, in the database specified in your Django settings. Django
-works with PostgreSQL and MySQL, although other database adapters are on the
-way::
+works best with PostgreSQL, although we've recently added beta MySQL
+support and other database adapters are on the way::
 
     django-admin.py install news
 
diff --git a/docs/tutorial01.txt b/docs/tutorial01.txt
index 27ef474ef88..516d095cc20 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial01.txt
+++ b/docs/tutorial01.txt
@@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ these settings to match your database's connection parameters:
 Do that with "``CREATE DATABASE database_name;``" within your database's
 interactive prompt.)
 
+Also, note that MySQL support is a recent development, and Django hasn't been
+comprehensively tested with that database. If you find any bugs in Django's
+MySQL bindings, please file them in `Django's ticket system`_ so we can fix them
+immediately.
+
 Once you've done that, you need to tell Django which settings module you're
 currently using. Do that by setting an environment variable,
 ``DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE``. Here's how you do that in the Bash shell on Unix::
@@ -88,6 +93,7 @@ Now you're set to start doing work. You won't have to take care of this boring
 administrative stuff again.
 
 .. _`Python path`: http://docs.python.org/tut/node8.html#SECTION008110000000000000000
+.. _`Django's ticket system: http://code.djangoproject.com/report/1
 
 Creating models
 ===============