Percona Toolkit 2.1.8 was released today and the new version comes with some pretty cool news: Beta support for MySQL 5.6 (which as you might know is also in beta). In addition to various bug fixes, Percona Toolkit 2.1.8 also offers beta support for Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC). Version 2.1.8 continues the trend of solid [...]
Percona Toolkit 2.1.8 released today with beta support for MySQL 5.6
January 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Announcing Percona Server 5.5.27-29.0
October 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.27-29.0 on October 11th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.27, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.27-29.0 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]
Announcing Percona Server 5.1.65-14.0
September 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.65-14.0 on September 4th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.65, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.65-14.0 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]
Where to get a BZR tree of the latest MySQL releases
August 16, 2012 By 1 Comment
I just posted this to the MySQL Internals mailing list: Hi all, Like many of you, I’m disappointed that the bzr trees for MySQL are out of sync with the tarball source and binary releases from Oracle. Since Oracle has been silent on this, and this is a recurring problem, I’ve decided to attempt to [...]
Percona Playback 0.3 development release
July 10, 2012 By 15 Comments
I’m glad to announce the third Percona Playback release – another alpha release of a new software package designed to replay database server load. The first two versions were released in April, just in time for my talk at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo: Replaying Database Load with Percona Playback. This is still [...]
Where Percona software goes before it’s released
June 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Where does software go while it’s waiting for release? The answer is: our experimental repository! For anywhere from a few days to a week before we release them, we stage our software releases in the TESTING download area and in separate software repositories for Debian/Ubuntu and CentOS/RHEL. This is so that we can co-ordinate things such [...]
DROP TABLE and stalls: Lazy Drop Table in Percona Server and the new fixes in MySQL
June 22, 2012 By 33 Comments
Suppose you have turned on innodb_file_per_table (which means that each table has its own tablespace), and you have to drop tables in a background every hour or every day. If its once every day then you can probably schedule the table dropping process to run during off-peak hours. But I have seen cases where the [...]
Percona Toolkit versions 2.0.5 and 2.1.2 released
June 12, 2012 By 1 Comment
The Percona Toolkit team is happy to announce the release of Percona Toolkit versions 2.0.5 and 2.1.2. These are bug-fix releases in the 2.0 and 2.1 series, respectively. These releases fix many dozens of bugs, and we suggest that users upgrade to the latest versions of the tools. The complete list of changes is on [...]
Percona Server 5.5.23-25.3 released!
May 16, 2012 By 3 Comments
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.23-25.3 on May 16, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.23, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.23-25.3 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 the release can [...]
Percona Server 5.1.62-13.3 released!
April 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.62-13.3 on April 25, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.62, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.62-13.3 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]
