Kim, MySQL 5.1 is “Stable” for quite a some time. The Innodb Plugin … intended to happen in “Stable” release. So giving the Option of easily enabling Innodb plugin in MySQL 5.1 is a great solution which… to “GA” state soon and proves working well in 5.1 series we will see BuiltIn Innodb replaced by Plugin in next major MySQL release.
Comment: Which Linux distribution for a MySQL database server? A specific point of view.
December 10, 2011 By 38 Comments
… system MySQL is easy to install. CentOS 5 ships with MySQL 5.0.77 which is really old. The 6.x releases ship with MySQL 5.1 which is also to old if you want to start something new. The MySQL 5.5 packages from Oracle… I would use the latest GA from MySQL, Percona Server or MariaDB. I use tarballs on Ubuntu with mysql-sandbox for development and…
Post: Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.0.3
October 1, 2012 By 1 Comment
… site here and Percona Software Repositories. This release is the current GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.0 series. New Features… must be used with caution. Bugs Fixed: Symlink for innobackupex-1.5.1 binary has been broken in the previous version of XtraBackup… next incremental backup. Bugs fixed #1049174 and #1044398 (Laurynas Biveinis). Release notes with all the bugfixes for Percona XtraBackup 2.0…
Comment: Guess what?! Microsecond slow query timing finally available in MySQL!
September 5, 2007 By 5 Comments
Jay, We new it is in the queue for 5.1 but were surprised it was included that quickly. I guess as MySQL 5.1 is getting close to “GA” release it just become “now or never” question 
Comment: Working on "High Performance MySQL, Second Edition", how you can help?
October 17, 2007 By 20 Comments
… a book will be finished is like asking when 5.1 GA of MySQL will be released! However I would like to buy the book…
Comment: Partially OpenSourced
April 15, 2008 By 21 Comments
… go the mySQL enterprise server page http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/server.html the page title is “MySQL Enterprise Server 5.1” I really… further supports what Eric Bergen pointed out. Why not release 5.1.24 as GA to the community first? I would think 1000s of… usage. A savvy enterprise customer is going to stall that release until it’s been further vetted, or until they get…
Comment: Should we proclaim MySQL Community Edition Dead ?
July 2, 2008 By 34 Comments
Dmitry, MySQL 5.0 is the latest stable “GA” release (5.1 is still RC) this is why I focus on this version. It is also most broadly used MySQL version at… for example there were MySQL 5.0 release coming out during these months. There is MySQL 5.0.62 however there all were customer only releases.
Post: Percona Welcomes Patrick Crews
October 3, 2011 By 2 Comments
…our documentation publishing platform for both Percona Server (5.1 and 5.5) and Percona Xtrabackup. We are at …us. Patrick has been doing QA in the MySQL world for a while now, and has … he saw the code get to its first GA release. This included testing a completely rewritten replication system,…
Comment: New MySQL Community release - Great job MySQL !
August 17, 2008 By 5 Comments
Trent, The 5.1 not being released as GA means quality is not yet up to high standards you should expect from MySQL. I’m… out. It would be much worse if it would be released with subpar quality as MySQL 5.0 was for example.
Comment: Partially OpenSourced
April 15, 2008 By 21 Comments
Looks like I jumped the gun – there’s now an “official” announcement regarding 5.1 – http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/press-release/release_2008_14.html – which states it will be GA by the end of this quarter. This is another one of the many cases where I’m glad my initial thoughts are wrong.
