There have been several reports (1,2,3) describing Percona’s stance regarding the MariaDB Foundation that are not totally accurate so I though it would be worth it to describe where we stand on this and related matters. First, let me say the creation of theMariaDB Foundation is a good thing for the MariaDB Community and I’m [...]
Percona Server 5.1.52-12.3
December 13, 2010 By 2 Comments
Percona Server version 5.1.52-12.3 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona release candidate to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. The release also includes the HandlerSocket plugin, which provides NoSQL features in Percona Server. Functionality Added or Changed Percona Server 5.1.52-12.3 is now based on [...]
Percona XtraBackup 1.5-Beta
December 13, 2010 By 6 Comments
Percona XtraBackup 1.5-Beta is now available for download. This release adds additional functionality to Percona XtraBackup 1.4, the current general availability version of XtraBackup. This is a beta release. Functionality Added or Changed Support for MySQL 5.5 databases has been implemented. (Yasufumi Kinoshita) XtraBackup can now be built from the MySQL 5.1.52, MySQL 5.5.7, or Percona Server [...]
Percona Server 5.1.50-rel12.1
October 14, 2010 By 2 Comments
Dear Community, Percona Server version 5.1.50-rel12.1 RC is now available for download. Functionality Added or Changed Percona Server 5.1.50-rel12.1 is now based on MySQL 5.1.50. New Features Added: innodb_lru_dump_restore – Implemented automatic dumping of the buffer pool at specified intervals. innodb_buffer_pool_shm – Implemented option ”innodb_buffer_pool_shm_checksum”; when enabled, shared memory buffer pool is checksum validated. This [...]
Percona Server version 10
April 13, 2010 By 3 Comments
Dear Community, Today we are pleased to announce the release 10 of Percona Server with XtraDB storage engine. Since the previous release 9.1 there are following changes
xtrabackup-1.2
April 13, 2010 By 2 Comments
Dear Community, The notice is hereby given that next version 1.2 of XtraBackup software is released. The list of changes in this version includes: Changelog: XtraBackup supports now XtraDB 10 tar4ibd supports variable page size and fast_checksum of XtraDB Supported 32bit platform for Centos 5, Centos 4, Debian lenny and etch, Ubuntu Karmic, Jaunty, Intrepid, [...]
Rebuilding MySQL with same options
April 8, 2010 By 4 Comments
Every so often I am working on the system with custom compiled MySQL. How to upgrade to the new MySQL Options while preserving as much of original compilation options as possible if original build scripts are not available ? MySQL distribution has a great script called mysqlbug which was supposed to be used for bug [...]
xtrabackup-1.1
March 24, 2010 By 5 Comments
Dear Community, It is time to announce the next version of backup software from Percona – XtraBackup 1.1. The list of changes in version 1.1 includes: Changelog: XtraBackup is built on a base of MySQL 5.1.44 with InnoDB plugin 1.0.6 Added –host option tar4ibd can treat over 64GB file tar4ibd is default method for stream, [...]
Percona-XtraDB version 9.1
March 14, 2010 By 16 Comments
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
January 13, 2010 By 9 Comments
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 [...]
