Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.12-20.3 on June 9, 2011 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).
Based on MySQL 5.5.12, Percona Server 5.5.12-20.3 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series.
Other Changes
- The list of authors of the plugins used have been corrected. Bug Fixes:#723050 (Y. Kinoshita)
For more information, please see the following links:
- Downloads: Binary distribution, Percona Software Repositories
ERRATA: Due to misconceptions, bugs already fixed in the past release (5.5.11-20.2) were included in the Release Notes of this version. They have been removed for consistency, I apologize for any inconvenience.
Percona Server 5.5.12 is based on MySQL 5.5.12, so you should expect all the improvements of MySQL 5.5 plus the features and improvements from Percona Server.
A quick comparison between the two servers can be found in
http://www.percona.com/software/percona-server/feature-comparison/
An introduction to Percona Server can be found in
http://www.percona.com/software/percona-server/
A more detailed explanation of the main features of Percona Server can be found in
http://www.percona.com/docs/wiki/percona-server:features:start
Since Mysql 5.5 has a lot of performance improvement, what the advantage of Percona Server 5.5.12? I can’t find any latest documents or data to say that.
Currently Microsoft Windows is not a supported platform by Percona Server. This will be addressed in a future but not in the short-term.
Looking everywhere I see mention in the instructions of how to install using Windows .msi but I can not find a Windows .msi to download. Am I just looking in the wrong places?