Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.21-25.0 on March 20th, 2012. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories. Based on MySQL 5.5.21, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.21-25.0 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]
Give feedback on a pt-online-schema-change update
March 14, 2012 By 2 Comments
I am writing a specification for updating pt-online-schema-change. The outline of the changes I want to make is here: http://www.percona.com/docs/wiki/ptdev:blueprints:redesign-pt-online-schema-change The idea is to make the tool Do The Right Thing, with features such as automatically throttling its operation to avoid causing replicas to lag. Many of the features and improvements are similar to those [...]
Percona Toolkit 2.0.4 released
March 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Percona Toolkit version 2.0.4 is available for immediate download. This release fixes 25 bugs and is a bug-fix release only, with the exception of a minor new filtering option for pt-kill. The change log is available on Launchpad. There are links to the documentation, downloads, bug reporting system, and mailing list on the toolkit homepage. [...]
Announcing Percona XtraBackup 1.9.1
February 27, 2012 By 9 Comments
Percona is glad to announce the second beta release towards Percona XtraBackup 2.0! We call this version 1.9.1 as we are using the 1.9.x version numbers for betas of 2.0 to clearly differentiate beta releases from the final 2.0 release. We do not recommend using Beta releases in production. Link to BETA version and Release notes.
Percona XtraDB Cluster Events
February 24, 2012 By 6 Comments
We are on our way to delivery a production ready release of Percona XtraDB Cluster by the end March-2012. We will do couple events to cover features and architecture of XtraDB Cluster.
Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.20 – Beta release
February 23, 2012 By 10 Comments
I am happy to announce the availability of beta release of our new product Percona XtraDB Cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster is High Availability and Scalability solution for MySQL Users and the beta release is based on Percona Server 5.5.20 and the recently released Galera 2.0 GA The main focus in this release: Incremental State Transfer, [...]
DBD::mysql 4.014 breaks pt-table-checksum 2.0
February 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
DBD::mysql 4.014 breaks pt-table-checksum 2.0. The cause is unknown, but the effect is a lot of errors like: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: called with 2 bind variables when 6 are needed [for Statement "..." with ParamValues: ...] at ./pt-table-checksum line 7216. The fix is simple: upgrade (or even downgrade) DBD::mysql to any version except 4.014. To [...]
Announcing MySQL Monitoring Plugins from Percona
February 17, 2012 By 20 Comments
We’ve released a new set of monitoring plugins for MySQL servers and related software. With these plugins, you can set up world-class graphing and monitoring for your MySQL servers, using your own on-premises Cacti and Nagios software. The Cacti plugins are derived from an existing set of templates we’ve been using for several years, but [...]
Announcing Percona Server 5.1.61-13.2
February 10, 2012 By 3 Comments
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.61-13.2 on February 10th, 2012 (Downloads are available from Percona Server 5.1.61-13.2 downloads and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.61, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.61-13.2 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona ‘s software is open-source and free, all the details [...]
Announcing Percona XtraBackup 1.6.5
February 10, 2012 By 5 Comments
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 1.6.5 on 10 February, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release is purely composed of bug fixes and is the current stable release of Percona XtraBackup. There are some important bug fixes around incremental backups, parallel backups and backups on databases with the system [...]
