Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.29-76.2 on March 7, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.6.29, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.29-76.2 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. Percona Server is open-source and free …

Percona is glad to announce the first GA release of Percona Server 5.7.10-3 on February 23, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.7.10, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.7.10-3 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.7 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source …

Percona is glad to announce the second release candidate of Percona Server 5.7.10-2 on February 8, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.7.10, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.7.10-2 is the current Release Candidate release in the Percona Server 5.7 series. All of Percona’s …

Percona invites you to attend a webinar Wednesday, January 27th, with CEO Peter Zaitsev: Compression In Open Source Databases. Register now!

Data growth has been tremendous in the last decade and shows no signs of stopping. To deal with this trend database technologies have implemented a number of approaches, and data compression is by far the most common and important. Compression in open source databases is complicated, and there are a lot of different approaches – each with their own implications.

In this talk we will perform a survey of compression in some of the most popular open source database engines including: Innodb, TokuDB, MongoDB, WiredTiger, RocksDB, and PostgreSQL.

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Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.28-76.1 on January 12, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.6.28, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.28-76.1 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. Percona Server is open-source and free – …

Percona is glad to announce the first release candidate of Percona Server 5.7.10-1 on December 14, 2015. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.

This release contains all the bug fixes from latest Percona Server 5.6 release (currently Percona Server 5.6.27-76.0).

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Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.27-76.0 on December 4, 2015. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.6.27, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.27-76.0 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. Percona Server is open-source and free – …

The LZMA algorithm implemented by the xz compression software package is one of the compression algorithms used by TokuDB for MySQL and TokuMX for MongoDB.  Unfortunately, valgrind's memcheck reports an uninitialized variable problem in the …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.27-75.0 on November 5, 2015. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.6.27, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.27-75.0 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. Percona Server is open-source and free – …

Percona recently open sourced TokuBackup, a library that may be used to take a snapshot of a set of files while these files are being changed by a running application like MySQL or MongoDB.  Making TokuBackup open source allows a larger set of users to improve and extend the software.  This blog describes how the Address Sanitizer and Thread Sanitizer found bugs in the TokuBackup library.

The TokuBackup library is used by Percona Server for MySQL and …