The latest release of dbdeployer is possibly the last one with a leading 0. If no serious bugs are found in the next two weeks, the next release will bear a glorious 1.0.
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The decision to get out of the stream of pre-releases that were published until now comes because I have implemented all the features that I wanted to add: mainly, all the ones that I wished to add to MySQL-Sandbox but it would have been …
[Read more]One of Oracle's tenets is the focus on security. For this reason, when it took over the stewardship of MySQL, it started addressing the most common issues. It was not quick acting, but we have seen real progress:
MySQL 8.0 will be GA soon (just my assumption:
Oracle doesn't tell me anything about its release plans) and it's
time to think about having a look at it.
If this is your first try of MySQL 8, get prepared for several
impacting differences from previous versions.
In this article I won't tell you what you can do with MySQL 8: there is plenty of material about this, including in this very blog. I will instead concentrate on differences from previous versions that users need to know if they want to avoid surprises.
Data Directory
Let's start with an observation of the data directory.
After a standard installation, without any additional options, I
see the following:
Files that I expected to see
auto.cnf
ib_buffer_pool
ib_logfile0
ib_logfile1
ibdata1
ibtmp1
(dir) mysql
(dir) …Where the hell is it?
The MySQL shell is a potentially useful tool that has been intentionally made difficult to use properly.
It was introduced, with much fanfare, with the MySQL Document Store, as THE tool to bridge the SQL and no-SQL worlds. The release was less than satisfactory, though: MySQL 5.7.12 introduced a new feature (the X-protocol plugin) bundled with the server. The maturity of the plugin was unclear, as it popped out of the unknown into a GA release, without any public testing. It was allegedly GA quality, although the quantity of bug reports that were filed soon after the release proved otherwise. The maturity of the shell was known as "development preview", and so we had a supposedly GA feature that could only be used with an alpha …
[Read more]The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.3.5, the first release candidate in the MariaDB 10.3 series, as well as MariaDB Connector/J 2.2.2, the latest stable release in the MariaDB Connector/J 2.2 series, and MariaDB Connector/J 1.7.2, the latest stable release in the MariaDB Connector/J 1.7 series. See the release notes […]
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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.2.13, the next stable release in the 10.2 series, as well as MariaDB Connector/ODBC 3.0.3 and MariaDB Connector/ODBC 2.0.16. See the release notes and changelogs for details. Download MariaDB 10.2.13 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.2? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator […]
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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.3.4, the second beta release in the MariaDB 10.3 series, as well as MariaDB Connector/C 3.0.3, the latest stable release in the MariaDB Connector/J 3.0 series, and MariaDB Connector/C 2.3.5, the latest stable release in the MariaDB Connector/C 2.3 series. See the release notes […]
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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.3.3, the first beta release in the MariaDB 10.3 series, as well as MariaDB Connector/J 2.2.1, the latest stable release in the MariaDB Connector/J 2.2 series, and MariaDB Connector/J 1.7.1, the latest stable release in the MariaDB Connector/J 1.7 series. See the release notes […]
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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.1.30, the latest stable release in the MariaDB 10.1 series, as well as MariaDB Connector/C 2.3.4, the latest stable release in the MariaDB Connector/C 2.x series. See the release notes and changelogs for details. Download MariaDB 10.1.30 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.1? […]
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Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.5.1. This release contains fixes for bugs found after Percona Monitoring and Management 1.5.0 was released.
Bug fixes