Percona Server version 5.1.54-12.5 is now available for download. It is now the current stable release version. Functionality Added or Changed Percona Server 5.1.54-12.5 is based on MySQL 5.1.54. New Features Added: None Other Changes: Added system variable innodb_log_block_size and new value “keep_average” to system variable adaptive_checkpoint in Improved InnoDB I/O Scalability. (Yasufumi Kinoshita) Added new value [...]
Percona Server security fix releases
May 23, 2010 By 4 Comments
As you may know MySQL ® announced 5.0.91 and 5.1.47 with serious security fixes, so we provide binary releases of Percona Server 5.0 and Percona Server / XtraDB 5.1 with security patches. Fixed bugs: Bug#53371, CVE-2010-1848 Bug#53237, CVE-2010-1850 Bug#50974, CVE-2010-1849 Release Percona Server 5.0.91-rel22 is available in our download area: http://www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-5.0/Percona-Server-5.0.91-22/ Release Percona Server/XtraDB 5.1.45-rel10.2 [...]
Percona Server 5.0.90-build21
May 7, 2010 By 1 Comment
Dear Community, Percona Server 5.0.90, release 21 is available for use. Comparing to the previous release it has following new features: The build is based on MySQL-5.0.90 Fixed bugs: Fixed Bug #539190 Percona-XtraDB package doesn’t allow libmysqlclient15off Fixed Bug #479106 mysql-5.0.87 + patches-5.0.86 compile fail in ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) Fixed tests mysql, mysql_upgrade, ssl* See [...]
How Percona Develops Open-Source Software
January 9, 2009 By 4 Comments
Percona has been building and contributing to open-source software since the company was founded, and individually we’ve been doing the same thing for many years. We think it’s a huge value for our customers and the community. We’re involved in a dozen or so open-source projects, but our three core efforts at the moment are [...]
XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.2-2 (New Year edition)
December 29, 2008 By 20 Comments
Today we announce release 1.0.2-2 of our XtraDB storage engine. Here is a list of enhancements: split-buffer_pool_mutex The patch splits global InnoDB buffer_pool mutex into several and eliminates waitings on flush IO and mutex when there is no enough free buffers. It helps if you have performance drops when data does not fit in memory. [...]
Announcing Percona XtraDB Storage Engine: a Drop-in Replacement for Standard InnoDB
December 16, 2008 By 25 Comments
Today we officially announce our new storage engine, “Percona XtraDB“, which is based on the InnoDB storage engine. It’s 100% backwards-compatible with standard InnoDB, so you can use it as a drop-in replacement in your current environment. It is designed to scale better on modern hardware, and includes a variety of other features useful in [...]
How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit
November 24, 2008 By 17 Comments
Our customers or prospective customers often ask us how we do a performance audit (it’s our most popular service). I thought I should write a blog post that will both answer their question, so I can just reply “read all about it at this URL” and share our methodology with readers a little bit. This [...]
New patches, new builds
September 5, 2008 By 24 Comments
We made new patches, improved previous and want to announce new builds for 5.0.62, 5.0.67 and 5.1.26 versions. One of biggest changes we separated releases of 5.0 into two branches. First, just “-percona” release is more stable and contains only stable and proven on many installation patches. Second is “-percona-highperf” release, which contains experimental patches [...]
Percona RPMS for RedHat 5 / CentOS 5 x86_64
July 31, 2008 By 4 Comments
We prepared RPMs of our release for RedHat 5 / CentOS 5 x86_64 platform. http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/mysql/RPM/RHEL5/5.0.62/ There was question what patcheset includes and if there is manuals. We have: microsecond resolution in slow-log extended query plan in slow-log and InnoDB statistics. You can read more here http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/04/20/updated-msl-microslow-patch-installation-walk-through/ User / Table / Index statistics (Google’s patch). More [...]
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 [...]
