Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.23-23 on September 12, 2018 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release merges changes of MySQL 5.7.23, including all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.23-23 is now the current GA release in the 5.7 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free.

New Features

• The max_binlog_files variable is deprecated, and the binlog_space_limit variable should be used …

In this post I’ll give to you the steps to compile Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.22 in Raspberry Pi 3. Why? Well because in general this little computer is cheap, has low power consumption, and is great to use as a test machine for developers.

By default Raspbian OS includes very few versions of MySQL to install

$ apt-cache search mysql | grep server
...
mariadb-server-10.0 - MariaDB database server binaries
mariadb-server-10.1 - MariaDB database server binaries
mariadb-server-core-10.0 - MariaDB database core server files
mariadb-server-core-10.1 - MariaDB database core server files
mysql-server - MySQL database server binaries and system database setup [transitional] (5.5)
...

If you want to install MySQL or MariaDB on an ARM architecture using official pre-built binaries, you are limited to those distributions and versions.

…

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.41-84.1 on August 17, 2018 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release merges changes of MySQL 5.6.41, including all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.41-84.1 is now the current GA release in the 5.6 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free.

Bugs Fixed

• A simple SELECT query on a table with CHARSET=euckr COLLATE=euckr_bin could return different results each time it was executed. Bug fixed  …

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.61-38.13 on August 17, 2018 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release merges changes of MySQL 5.5.61, including all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.61-38.13 is now the current GA release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free.

Bugs Fixed

• The --innodb-optimize-keys option of the mysqldump utility fails when a column name is used as a prefix of a …

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.22-29.26 (PXC) on June 29, 2018. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.22-29.26 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.22
• Galera/Codership WSREP API Release 5.7.21
• Galera Replication library 3.23

Deprecated

The following variables …

Kubernetes, and its most popular distribution OpenShift, receives a lot of interest as a container orchestration platform. However, databases remain a foreign entity, primarily because of their stateful nature, since container orchestration systems prefer stateless applications. That said, there has been good progress in support for StatefulSet applications and persistent storage, to the extent that it might be already comfortable to have a production database instance running in Kubernetes. With this in mind, we’ve been looking at running Percona XtraDB Cluster in Kubernetes/OpenShift.

While there are already many examples on the Internet of how to start a single MySQL instance in Kubernetes, for serious usage we need to provide:

• High Availability: how can we guarantee availability …

Percona announces the GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.12 on June 22, 2018. You can download it from our download site and apt and yum repositories.

Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that …

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.40-26.25 (PXC) on June 20, 2018. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.40-26.25 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.40
• Galera/Codership WSREP API Release 5.6.39
• Galera Replication library 3.23

All Percona software is open-source and free. …

Percona announces the GA release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.22-22 on on May 31, 2018. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. You can also run Docker containers from the images in the Docker Hub repository.

Based on MySQL 5.7.22, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.22-22 is the current GA release in the Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 series. Percona …

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.40-84.0 on May 30, 2018 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.6.40, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.40-84.0 is now the current GA release in the 5.6 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free.

New Features

• A new string variable version_suffix allows to change suffix for the Percona Server version string returned by the read-only version variable. …