In our last 5.5 series release of Percona Server, we included a regression in the RPM packaging that prevented the server from restarting following an upgrade — instead, the server would remain stopped after the upgrade was completed regardless of its state before updating. This caused some problems for some users, especially if automatic upgrading was configured [...]
MySQL alternative Percona Server 5.1.68 -14.6 now available
April 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.68 -14.6 on April 19, 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 5.1.68-14.6, a MySQL alternative, is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona‘s software is open source and free, all the [...]
Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.30-23.7.4 for MySQL now available
April 17, 2013 By 2 Comments
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.30-23.7.4 for MySQL on April 17, 2013. Binaries are available from the downloads area or from our software repositories. New Features: Percona XtraDB Cluster has implemented initial implementation of weighted quorum. Weight for node can be assigned via pc.weight option in the wsrep_provider_options variable. [...]
Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.30-30.2 now available
April 10, 2013 By 10 Comments
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.30-30.2 on April 10, 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 5.5.30-30.2 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 [...]
Percona XtraDB Cluster reference architecture with HaProxy
June 20, 2012 By 63 Comments
This post is a step-by-step guide to set up Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) in a virtualized test sandbox. I used Amazon EC2 micro instances, but the content here is applicable for any kind of virtualization technology (for example VirtualBox). The goal is to give step by step instructions, so the setup process is understandable and [...]
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 [...]
Percona Server 5.1.47-rel11.0
June 21, 2010 By 13 Comments
Dear Community, Percona Server version 5.1.47-rel11.0 is available for download now. The changes in this release include: New features Percona Server is now based on MySQL 5.1.47, and XtraDB is now based on InnoDB plugin 1.0.8. XtraDB now uses the fast recovery code released in InnoDB Plugin version 1.0.8, instead of Percona’s earlier fast-recovery code. [...]
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 [...]
5.0.87-build20 Percona binaries
November 18, 2009 By 3 Comments
Dear Community, We are pleased to present the 20th build of MySQL server with Percona patches. Comparing to the previous release it has following new features: The build is based on MySQL-5.0.87 innodb_rw_lock.patch is ported from InnoDB Plugin 1.0.3 To be compatible with RedHat RPM repository, the naming scheme has changed to
1 | <rpm name>-<mysql version>-<percona build version>.<buildnumber>.<redhat version>.<architecture>.rpm |
Example:
1 | MySQL-server-percona-5.0.87-b20.29.rhel5.x86_64.rpm |
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Percona builds with Percona patchsets
July 16, 2008 By 35 Comments
Percona has a strong team of MySQL developers and consultants on board, so we decided to prepare builds with our patches and third-party patches which we think are very useful. We actually use these internally and for our customers. Current releases include: microslow patch (enables microsecond resolution in slow logs) execution plan (show info about [...]
