We started hosting Percona University a few years back with the aim of sharing knowledge with the open source database community. The events are held in cities across the world. The next Percona University days will visiting Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil, in a lightning tour at the end of April.

• Montevideo, Tuesday, April 23 2019 from 8.30am to 6.30pm
• Buenos Aires, Thursday, April 25 2019 from 1.30pm to 10.3pm
• São Paulo, Saturday, April 27 2019 from 9.30am to 7.30pm

What is Percona University?

It is a technical …

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.15-5 on March 15, 2019 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).

This release includes fixes to bugs found in previous releases of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.

Incompatible changes

In previous releases, the audit log used to produce time stamps inconsistent with the ISO 8601 standard. Release 8.0.15-5 of Percona Server for MySQL solves this problem. This change, however, may break programs that rely on the old time stamp …

Tutorials and initial sessions are set for the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019, to be held May 28-30 at the Hyatt Regency in Austin, Texas! Percona Live 2019 is the premier open source database conference event for users of MySQL®, MariaDB®, MongoDB®, and PostgreSQL. It will feature 13 tracks presented over two days, plus a day of hands-on tutorials. Register now to enjoy our best Super Saver Registration rates which end March 17, 2019 at 11:30 p.m. PST.

Sample Sessions

Here is one item from each of our 13 tracks, samples from our  …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.43-28.32 on February 28, 2019. Binaries are available from the downloads section or from our software repositories.

This release of Percona XtraDB Cluster includes the support of Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish). Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.43-28.32 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server 5.6.43-84.3
• Codership WSREP API release 5.6.42
• Codership Galera library 3.25

All Percona software is …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.25-31.35 on February 28, 2018. Binaries are available from the downloads section or from our software repositories.

This release of Percona XtraDB Cluster includes the support of Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish). Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.25-31.35 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.25-28
• Galera Replication library 3.25
• Galera/Codership WSREP API Release 5.7.24

All Percona software is open-source and free.

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We know you’ve been really looking forward to a glimpse of what to expect at Percona Live Austin, so here is the first sneak peek of the agenda!

Our conference committee has been reviewing hundreds of talks over the last few weeks and is delighted to present some initial talks.

• New features in MySQL 8.0 Replication by Luís Soares, Oracle OSS
• Shaping the Future of Privacy & Data Protection by Cristina DeLisle, XWiki SAS
• Galera Cluster New Features by Seppo Jaakola, Codership
• MySQL Security and Standardization at PayPal by Stacy Yuan &  Yashada Jadha, PayPal
• Mailchimp Scale: a MySQL Perspective by John Scott, Mailchimp
• The State of Databases in 2019 by Dinesh Joshi, Apache Cassandra

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL®, MongoDB®, and PostgreSQL performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL®, MongoDB®, and PostgreSQL® servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible.

In this release, we are introducing support for detection of our upcoming PMM 2.0 release in order to avoid potential version conflicts in the future, as PMM 1.x will not be compatible with PMM 2.x.

Another improvement in this release is we have updated the Tooltips for Dashboard MySQL Query Response Time by providing a description of what the graphs display, along with links to related documentation resources. An example of Tooltips in action:

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.7.25-28 on February 18, 2019. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.

This release is based on MySQL 5.7.25 and includes all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server 5.7.25-28 is now the current GA (Generally Available) release in the 5.7 series.

All software developed by Percona is open-source and free.

In this release, Percona Server introduces the …

For those not familiar with it, FOSDEM is an amazing, free entry, full on celebration of open source that takes place in Brussels, Belgium every year. This year the event was held over the first weekend of February. Fringe events, such as the Pre-FOSDEM MySQL day hosted by Oracle MySQL, and the community dinner that follows, provide an opportunity to network.

In case you didn’t make it to FOSDEM this year, here are links to Percona’s presentations from the event. Organizers video and share online every talk from every dev room, a phenomenal achievement in itself. All credit to the volunteers who run this show.

Database Dev Room: Hugepages and databases presented by Fernando Laudares …

ProxySQL 1.4.14, released by ProxySQL, is now available for download in the Percona Repository along with an updated version of Percona’s proxysql-admin tool.

ProxySQL is a high-performance proxy, currently for MySQL,  and database servers in the MySQL ecosystem (like Percona Server for MySQL and MariaDB). It acts as an intermediary for client requests seeking resources from the database. René Cannaò created ProxySQL for DBAs as a means of solving complex replication topology issues.

The ProxySQL 1.4.14 source and binary packages available from the  …