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Production data is invaluable for day-to-day operations—support, troubleshooting, analytics, and development. But when that data contains sensitive fields such as SSNs, emails, phone numbers, or other identifiers, broad read access can quickly become unnecessary exposure.  Just as importantly, many organizations operate under regulatory and contractual requirements that expect strong controls around access to sensitive data—often including data masking as […]

MySQL 9.7.0 LTS landed today, and we had the pleasure of watching the announcement live — and we were the first ones to download. If you've already pulled the binaries and you're poking at it in a lab, here's the news: Readyset already supports it.

The point isn't that Readyset happens to work with 9.7. The point is that we were prepared for the launch. Our compatibility matrix has been running 9.7 pre-release builds, so the same readysettech/readyset:latest image you can docker pull right now already accepts 9.7 as an upstream. Today's job is to prove it, not to port it.

Step 1 - Register MySQL 9.7 as an rdst target

rdst stores connection profiles in ~/.rdst/config.toml. One non-interactive command adds the target, and the …

MySQL is extending caching_sha2_password to support PBKDF2 with SHA-512 as a new password storage format. This is a meaningful step forward for password security because it strengthens stored password transformations without requiring a new authentication plugin, without breaking clients, and without forcing an all-at-once migration. Existing accounts continue to work, new passwords can use the stronger format, and administrators […]

Overview Some MySQL distribution packages, such as the generic Linux build, bundle an OpenSSL dependency within the same .tar.gz archive. With the new MySQL 8.0.46, 8.4.9 and 9.7.0 releases, we are upgrading those bundled packages from using OpenSSL 3.0 to the new OpenSSL 3.5 LTS branch. Native OS packages, such as .rpm and .deb, continue […]

The following report is covering performance evaluation of the currently available OpenSSL releases when they are used by MySQL in CPU-intensive OLTP workloads. However, the main focus is on OpenSSL-3.5.5, which will be used by default in the next MySQL releases.

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With MySQL 9.7.0 LTS, MySQL establishes its next long-term support release line, expands key capabilities in Community Edition, and introduces Dynamic Data Masking for Enterprise users. The April releases mark an important milestone for MySQL. With the GA of MySQL 9.7.0 LTS, MySQL moves from the 9.x innovation series to a new Long-Term Support release line. This begins […]

The latest release of the Percona Operator for MySQL, 1.1.0, is here. It brings point-in-time recovery, incremental backups, zstd backup compression, configurable asynchronous replication retries, and a set of stability fixes. This post walks through the highlights and how they help your MySQL deployments on Kubernetes.

Percona Operator for MySQL 1.1.0

Running stateful databases on Kubernetes means your backup and recovery story has to be airtight. A full nightly backup is fine, until the DBA drops a table at 2 PM and you’re looking at 14 hours of lost work. Or until your storage bill grows faster than your actual data because every backup is a …

Having a separate DR cluster for production databases is a modern day requirement or necessity for tech and other related businesses that rely heavily on their database systems. Setting up such a [DC -> DR] topology for Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), which is a virtually- synchronous cluster, can be a bit challenging in a complex Kubernetes environment.

Here, Percona Operator for MySQL comes in handy, with a minimal number of steps to configure such a topology, which ensures a remote side backup or a disaster recovery solution.

So without taking much time, let’s see how the overall setup and configurations look from a practical standpoint.

PXC Cross-Site/Disaster Recovery

DC Configuration

1) Here we have a three-node PXC cluster running on the DC side.

shell> kubectl get pods -n pxc
NAME                                               READY   STATUS …

April 19, 2026

It took three release candidates and more CI tweaks than I’d like to admit, but v1.7.0 is finally tagged GA. Here’s what actually changed and why it matters.

The thing I kept getting asked about: add_connection

Almost every multi-database user hits the same wall: you configure your connections at startup, and that’s it. Want to point Claude at a different instance mid-session? Restart the server. Not great.

add_connection fixes that. Enable it with MYSQL_MCP_EXTENDED=1 and MYSQL_MCP_ENABLE_ADD_CONNECTION=1, and Claude can register a new named connection on the fly — DSN validation, duplicate-name rejection, and a hard block on the root MySQL user all happen before the connection is accepted. Once it’s in, use_connection it works as usual.

It’s intentionally opt-in behind two flags. Allowing …

Starting with version 1.1.0, the Percona Kubernetes Operator for MySQL now supports incremental backups. This feature lets you backup only the changed data since the last backup, instead of copying your entire dataset each time. The result is dramatically smaller backup sizes, faster backup windows, and lower cloud storage costs.

In this post, we’ll walk through how the feature works under the hood, how to configure it, and what to keep in mind when designing your backup strategy.

How Incremental Backups Work in Percona XtraBackup

The foundation of this feature is Percona XtraBackup (PXB), an open source backup tool for MySQL. PXB has supported incremental backups for a while, and the operator now brings that capability into the backup workflow.

Every InnoDB data page carries a Log Sequence Number …