Percona’s patches spread to a wider audience
Percona’s patches are now available to a wider audience via OurDelta, a community effort to provide builds with features (Percona patches, Google patches, etc) and storage engines (PBXT, Sphinx, etc) that aren’t in the main MySQL server. Arjen Lentz is really the brainchild behind this. Kudos Arjen!
What does this mean for the Percona patches? Well, now you can get them in more places. But it doesn’t change our own commitment to keep innovating in ways our customers (and we ourselves) find useful. We’re still building our own builds and hosting the downloads from our own website; it’s important that you can get a build that you know authoritatively came from us and was built by us. The Percona patches and builds represent our best judgment about what’s the state of the art in the MySQL server for real-world usage, and we have no plans to change that.
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