Percona Community, Percona Server version 5.1.51-rel11.5 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona stable release to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. Functionality Added or Changed  Percona Server 5.1.51-rel11.5 is now based on MySQL 5.1.51.  New Features Added: None  Other Changes: None Bugs Fixed  Bug [...]
Percona Server 5.1.50-rel12.1
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 5.1.50-rel11.4
Dear Community, Percona Server version 5.1.50-rel11.4 is now available for download. The changes in this release include: New features The primary purpose of this release is to update to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. Percona Server 5.1.50-rel11.4 is now based on MySQL 5.1.50. Fixed bugs innodb_use_sys_stats_table – The
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table is now used only [...]
Percona Server 5.1.49-rel12.0
Dear Community, Starting with this release, we introduce a new release model for Percona Server. From now on, we will have both Stable and Release Candidate releases. Release Candidates will introduce new features not yet available in Stable releases. Along with new features, our new 5.1.49-12.0 RC contains a couple of patches from the Facebook-MySQL [...]
Upgrading MySQL
Upgrading MySQL Server is a very interesting task as you can approach it with so much different “depth”. For some this is 15 minutes job for others it is many month projects. Why is that ? Performing MySQL upgrade two things should normally worry you. It is Regressions – functionality regressions when what you’ve been [...]

