Well, that is more a catchy headline, than the reality: XA transactions work in your Galera Cluster Enterprise Edition (EE). This has been supported since our very first release with 8.0.28 Enterprise, right up till now, in 8.0.39 Enterprise. If you try to run an XA transaction in your regular Galera Cluster you’ll be given an error as such:

mysql> XA START 'xatest';
ERROR 1235 (42000): This version of MySQL doesn't yet support 'XA with wsrep replication plugin'

However, with Galera Cluster Enterprise Edition (EE), XA transactions, “just work”. What is an XA transaction, you might ask? An XA transaction is a distributed transaction …

Codership is pleased to announce a new beta preview release of the multi-master Galera Cluster for MySQL 8.4, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 8.4.2-26.20 (release notes, download), with Galera replication library 4.20 (release notes, download) implementing wsrep API version 26. This release incorporates all changes to MySQL 8.4.2, adding a synchronous option for your MySQL High Availability solutions.

One will notice that MySQL-wsrep 8.4.2-26.20 uses …

Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of the multi-master Galera Cluster for MySQL 8.0, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 8.0.39-26.20 (release notes, download), with Galera replication library 4.20 (release notes, download) implementing wsrep API version 26. This release incorporates all changes to MySQL 8.0.39, adding a synchronous option for your MySQL High Availability solutions.

In the Galera replication …

Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of the multi-master Galera Cluster for MySQL 8.0, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 8.0.36-26.18 (release notes, download). There is no change to the Galera replication library 4.18 (release notes, download) implementing wsrep API version 26. This release incorporates all changes to MySQL 8.0.36, adding a synchronous option for your MySQL High Availability solutions.

This is a …

Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of the multi-master Galera Cluster for MySQL 8.0, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 8.0.36 (release notes, download), with Galera replication library 4.18 (release notes, download) implementing wsrep API version 26. This release incorporates all changes to MySQL 8.0.36, adding a synchronous option for your MySQL High Availability solutions.

There have been some notable changes …

We have in the past covered Installing Galera Cluster 4 with MySQL 8 on Ubuntu 18.04 and also Installing Galera 4 with MySQL 8 on Ubuntu 20.04, and it would seem appropriate to also cover Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish). We do have excellent documentation and we also have the ability for you to automate all of this via the GUI tool, Galera Manager.

Prerequisites

• All 3 nodes have to have Ubuntu 22.04 LTS installed. The current version at the time of this writing is Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS.
• Firewall (if setup) needs to …

Galera Manager supports three modes for supporting your Percona XtraDB Clusters: deploying to either Amazon Web Services, deploying to your own on premises hosts, and also just monitoring your clusters. In this blog post, we will go thru houw you should deploying a 3-node Percona XtraDB Cluster via Galera Manager on Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2). You will realise that this process happens with just a simple API key and instance selection, so effectively you can have a Galera Manager setup in under fifteen minutes!

On AWS EC2, it is worth noting that Galera Manager itself can be deployed on the free tier for testing purposes. However, in production environments, you might expect up to 100GB of logs on a monthly basis, so you should plan accordingly.

Obtain Galera Manager by …

A little over a week ago, we released Galera Cluster for MySQL 8.0.35. Today, we have also made available binaries for Debian 12 “bookworm”.

As always we have binary installation documentation available, and if you are just after a quick install, the following is what is in your /etc/apt/sources.list.d/galera.list:

deb https://releases.galeracluster.com/galera-4.17/debian bookworm main
deb https://releases.galeracluster.com/mysql-wsrep-8.0.35-26.16/debian bookworm main

Happy installing, and the next step is to ensure that Debian 12 is enabled on Galera …

The momentum around Galera Manager development has been amazing. You report bugs or feature requests, and we fix them!

The major reason to release this was to ensure that Galera Manager would accept the new signing keys of Galera Cluster (key ID: 8DA84635).

One will now also note that gm-installer reports a new version: gm-installer version 1.12.0 (linux/amd64). And when you install it, Galera Manager itself is now at version 1.8.3. One of the major fixes is that Ubuntu 22.04 support for self-provided hosts is now exposed in the UI. This fixes …

Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of the multi-master Galera Cluster for MySQL 5.7, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 5.7.44 (release notes, download) and MySQL-wsrep 8.0.35 (release notes, download), with Galera replication library 4.17 (release notes, download) implementing wsrep API version …