Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.1 on May 15th 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories. Percona XtraBackup enables backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered [...]
Percona Server 5.5.30 with TokuDB for MySQL
April 24, 2013 By 26 Comments
I was excited to see that TokuDB for MySQL from Tokutek is now open source. I believe this is a great technology and it was a significant restriction on the adoption when it was distributed only in a binary format with a proprietary license. So I went and built Percona Server 5.5.30 with TokuDB’s storage [...]
SimCity outages, traffic control and Thread Pool for MySQL
March 16, 2013 By 16 Comments
For this post I’m going to shamelessly exploit the litany of technical problems SimCity players encountered earlier this month and a few examples of how Thread Pool for MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL can help to prevent such incidents. Users of SimCity, a city-building and urban planning simulation video game, encountered network outages, issues with [...]
Announcing Percona Server for MySQL 5.1.68 -14.5
March 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.1.68 -14.5 on March 15, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.68, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.68 -14.5 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona‘s software is open source and free, all [...]
Announcing Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.10-60.2
March 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.10-60.2 on March 14, 2013. (Downloads are available here and from the experimental Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.6.10, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.10-60.2 is the third ALPHA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the [...]
Announcing Percona Server for MySQL version 5.1.67-14.4
March 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL version 5.1.67-14.4 on March 8, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.67, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.67-14.4 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 Server for MySQL 5.5.30-30.1
March 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.30-30.1 on March 7, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.30, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.30-30.1 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 [...]
Announcing Percona Server for MySQL version 5.5.29-30.0
February 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL version 5.5.29-30.0 on February 26th, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.29, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.29-30.0 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details [...]
Announcing Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.29-23.7.2
February 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.29-23.7.2 on February 13th, 2013. Binaries are available from downloads area or from our software repositories. Bugs fixed: DML operations on temporary tables would try to append the key for provider library, which could cause a memory leak. Bug fixed for MyISAM temporary tables, [...]
Feature in details: Incremental state transfer after a node crash in Percona XtraDB Cluster
January 31, 2013 By 2 Comments
With our newest release of Percona XtraDB Cluster, I would like to highlight a very nice ability to recovery a node and bring it back to the cluster with an incremental transfer after a crash. This feature was available even in previous release, but now I want to give some details. So, MySQL crashes from [...]
