Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.0.3 on October 1st, 2012. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories. This release is the current GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.0 series. New Features: innobackupex now supports new –move-back option that can be used instead of –copy-back in case [...]
Percona XtraBackup 1.6.4
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 1.6.4 on 19 December, 2011 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). These release notes are (as always) available from the online Percona XtraBackup documentation. This release is purely composed of bug fixes and is the current stable release of Percona XtraBackup. In this release we now [...]
Percona Server 5.1 with Galera replication
As you may know I closely follow Galera replication development, and right now I am evaluating how it performs in our benchmarks. Of course my closest interest is Percona Server, so I made port of Galera from MySQL/InnoDB-plugin to Percona Server 5.1.57. Right now it is only in source code https://code.launchpad.net/~vadim-tk/percona-server/percona-galera-5.1.57, but it brings couple [...]
Product to try: MySQL/MariaDB-Galera 0.8
I wrote about Galera about 1.5 years ago: State of the art: Galera – synchronous replication for InnoDB. It was about the 0.7 release, which was more like a proof-of-concept release (though Galera’s developers may not agree with that ) with some serious limitations (like using mysqldump for node propagation). The Galera team heard my [...]
Percona Server and XtraBackup for MacOS – experimental binaries
We see demand on MacOS binaries and decided to prepare binaries you can download and use. The are marked as “experimental”, as we do not have big history of using MacOS in production, so we are looking for your feedback and bug reports. Binaries: Percona Server 5.5 : http://www.percona.com/downloads/TESTING/Percona-Server-55/Percona-Server-5.5.11-20.2/release-5.5.11-20.2/114/MacOSX/ Percona Server 5.1: http://www.percona.com/downloads/TESTING/Percona-Server-51/Percona-Server-5.1.56-12.7/release-5.1.56-12.7/226/MacOSX/ Percona XtraBackup: [...]
Percona Server 5.1.56-12.7
Percona Server version 5.1.56-12.7 is now available for download. It is based on MySQL 5.1.56 and is the current stable release in the 5.1 series.
Percona XtraBackup 1.6
Percona XtraBackup 1.6 is now available for download and is the current stable release version of XtraBackup.
Percona Server and XtraBackup available on Solaris
I am happy to announce that Percona Server and Percona XtraBackup are now available for the Solaris platform! You can download the latest Percona Server 5.1.55-12.6 stable release from our download area. As for Percona XtraBackup, we made Solaris binaries for the upcoming XtraBackup-1.6 release, and they are available from “pre-release” directory. There are couple [...]
Percona Server and XtraBackup weekly news, March 12th
Welcome to the weekly roundup and progress report. What’s new this week in Percona Server:
Percona Server 5.1.55-12.6
Percona Server version 5.1.55-12.6 is now available for download. It is now the current stable release version. Changes Fixed compiler warnings in both the core server and in XtraDB. (Alxey Kopytov, Yasufumi Kinoshita) Bugs Fixed Bug #602047 – The ROWS_READ columns of TABLE_STATISTICS and INDEX_STATISTICS were not properly updated when a query involved index lookups [...]

