Dear Community, We are announcing today the new version 9.1 of XtraDB storage engine. The name of binaries has changed to Percona-XtraDB. It is applicable to all packages including RPM, DEB and tar.gz packages. New features in version 9.1: MySQL 5.1.43 is taken as the basis packages name changed to Percona-XtraDB Enabled support of SSL [...]
XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.6-9
Dear Community, As of today Release 9 of XtraDB storage engine is available. The release includes following new features: The release is base on 1.0.6 version of InnoDB plugin. MySQL 5.1.42 as a base release Separate purge thread and LRU dump is implemented (this feature was actually added in Release 8, but somehow it was [...]
xtrabackup-1.0
Dear Community, As of today release 1.0 is available. In this release there are following changes: Changelog: XtraBackup is ported to Windows. The .MSI package as well as .tar.gz is available for 32 bit platform Be more verbose on reporting scp errors Fixed bugs: Bug #463691 in Percona-XtraBackup: “innobackupex-1.5.1 –help goes to STDERR” Bug #463709 [...]
5.0.87-build20 Percona binaries
Dear Community, We are pleased to present the 20th build of MySQL server with Percona patches. Comparing to the previous release it has following new features: The build is based on MySQL-5.0.87 innodb_rw_lock.patch is ported from InnoDB Plugin 1.0.3 To be compatible with RedHat RPM repository, the naming scheme has changed to <rpm name>-<mysql version>-<percona [...]
XtraDB Amazon Image
For those who use Amazon EC2 service and were anxious about having XtraDB ready to launch there is a good news. We created a public AMI (Amazon Machine Image) with XtraDB release 8 installed on CentOS 5.3. How to use it. First make sure it is avaiable. $ ec2-describe-images ami-4701e22e IMAGE  ami-4701e22e   xtradb/centos-5.3-x86_64.fs.manifest.xml       834362721059   available      [...]
xtrabackup-0.9.5rc
Dear Community, As of today release 0.9.5rc is available. In this release there are following changes: Changelog: Option –no-lock is added to innobackupex-1.5.1. Use it only while ALL your tables are InnoDB and you DO NOT CARE about binary log position of backup XtraBackup is ported for InnoDB Plugin 1.0.4. Barracuda file format as well [...]
XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.4-8
Dear Community, We are glad to present you release 8 of XtraDB. The release includes following new features: The release is base on 1.0.4 version of InnoDB plugin. We thank Schooner Information Technology for sponsoring and testing the port of XtraDB to 1.0.4 MySQL 5.1.39 as a base release Fixed bugs: Bugs#413858: Crash from failed [...]
5.0.86-build19 Percona binaries
Dear Community, As of today the 19-th build of MySQL server with Percona patches is available. Comparing to the previous release it has following new features: The build is based on MySQL-5.0.86 Fix from Neil Katin to userstatv2.patch fix InnoDB slowness with large queries Fixed bugs in the build: Bug #413858 in Percona patches: “Crash [...]
xtrabackup-0.9
Dear Community, The release 0.9 of the opensource backup tool for InnoDB and XtraDB is available for download. Changelog: tar4ibd could not treat over 8GB file, now max 64GB prepare-speed-hack is added Fixed bugs: Bug #386179: “InnoDB: Error: space id in fsp header 143088, but in the page header 0″ Bug #394374: “Can’t compile with [...]
XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.3-7
Dear Community, Today we are announcing XtraDB release 7. This is the last release based on InnoDB plugin version 1.0.3, as you might know Innobase has released 1.0.4. The release includes following new features: MySQL 5.1.37 as a base release speed hack for buf_flush_insert_sorted_into_flush_list controlled by the new variable innodb_fast_recovery Fixed bugs: MySQL Bugs: #45357: [...]

