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 [...]
Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.0.2 release: enterprise-grade MySQL monitoring and graphing capabilities
February 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.0.2 — high-quality components to add enterprise-grade MySQL monitoring and graphing capabilities to your existing in-house, on-premises monitoring solutions. The components are designed to integrate seamlessly with widely deployed solutions such as Nagios and Cacti, and are delivered in the form of templates, plugins, [...]
Distro Packages, Pre-built Binaries or Compile Your Own MySQL
September 4, 2012 By 7 Comments
I’ve been helping customers deploy and maintain MySQL (and variants) for the last couple of years and it has always been interesting to hear customer thoughts on how they want their servers installed. It has also been asked many times not only by our support and consulting customers, but widely from different forums and blogs [...]
NO Security vulnerability in Percona Server / XtraDB Cluster provided binaries
June 11, 2012 By 13 Comments
Many of you heard of this nasty security vulnerability in MySQL, and as we are getting a lot of inquiries how does it affect Percona Server, I decided to address it in this post. The issue exists in the source code of MySQL 5.5.23 or earlier and MySQL 5.1.62 or earlier. The same is true [...]
Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.24
June 7, 2012 By 4 Comments
I am happy to announce next version Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.24, which is mostly jump to the current version of Percona Server. It includes an important bug fix: table with no PK but still having UK, can cause crash in slave using PA Binaries are available from downloads area or from our repositories. For this [...]
Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.23
May 14, 2012 By 16 Comments
Our previous GA release of Percona XtraDB Cluster caused a lot of interest and feedback. I am happy to announce next version Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.23, which comes with bug fixes and improvements. List of changes: Fixes merged from upstream (Codership-mysql) Support for MyISAM, now changes to MyISAM tables are replicated to other nodes Improvements [...]
Percona welcomes Drizzle 7.1
April 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Drizzle team has published the first Drizzle 7.1 stable release. The announcement on the Drizzle blog covers some of the major improvements in this release over the previous stable release, Drizzle 7.0. I plan to write a variety of blog posts on each of the new features over the coming weeks. Major features include: Multi [...]
Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.20 GA release
April 3, 2012 By 11 Comments
I am excited to announce the availability of the GA release of our new product Percona XtraDB Cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster is a High Availability and Scalability solution for MySQL Users and is based on Percona Server 5.5.20. With this release we make clustering very easy and affordable for everyone. You can convert your existing [...]
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, [...]
Making the impossible: 3 nodes intercontinental replication
January 11, 2012 By 29 Comments
In this post I want to show new possibilities which open with Percona XtraDB Cluster. We will create 3 nodes Cluster with nodes on different continents (Europe, USA, Japan) and each node will accept write queries. Well, you theoretically could create 3 node traditional MySQL ring replication, but this is not what you want to [...]
