A few of us from Solid are up in Portland at OSCON. We’ll be showing off a new prototype of our high availability (HA) option for solidDB for MySQL. The HA option allows solidDB for MySQL to act in a hot-standby configuration where there is a primary and secondary server. The data in the primary is automatically synchronously replicated to the secondary. In the case that the primary fails, our HA Manager automatically performs a failover and the secondary server becomes the new primary. The secondary is also always available for read-only requests.

We’ll also be talking about DorsalSource, a community-focused Web site whose goal is to provide developers with easy access to builds of MySQL and related products. Come by booth 820 on Wednesday or Thursday if you want to hear more, …

Solid has released 5.0.41-0073. This release has a number of bug fixes and performance improvements. For the full detailed list of bug fixes and enhancements, please see the ChangeLog.

This is the “collation” release! 5.0.41-0073 supports the UTF8 and UCS2 character sets. In particular, the following collations have been added: {utf8,ucs2}_{bin,general_ci,unicode_ci,swedish_ci}

There is also now full support for all collations in the latin1 character set.

Check it out at http://dev.soliddb.com/download

There has been some ongoing discussion since the end of last year about MySQL’s decision to change how often they release binaries for the MySQL Community Edition.

For those that haven’t been paying attention, at the end of last year MySQL decided that they will no longer commit to releasing binaries for all versions and platforms of their Community Edition. Instead, some versions of their Community Edition are labeled “source-only” releases. For example, 5.0.33 Community Edition was a source-only release.

People have realized that this means they will either wait longer between MySQL-released community binaries or else they need to build the binary themselves. Peter Zaitsev blogged at the time that he is hoping the community will establish trusted …

As folks on several MySQL blogs have already noted, Solid will be hosting informal “Meet the Experts” discussion sessions during lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday at the MySQL Users Conference. We at Solid are quite excited to engage with so many smart folks from the community. We’ve initially set the discussion topics to “Migrating from MySQL 4.0 to 5.0″ for Tuesday and “Replication in the Real World” for Wednesday. However, the format is open, so people are free to discuss any other interesting topics that come up.

In addition, Solid is allowing people to use the discussion space in their booth on a first-come, first-serve basis for their own discussions. If you have an interesting topic on which you would like to host a discussion, come on by our booth and sign up for a free timeslot.

Dhiren Patel is coordinating the Meet the Experts sessions, so if you have a question about it, stop by the Solid booth and he can …

Solid has released 5.0.27-0064. This release has a number of bug fixes and enhancements. For the full detailed list of bug fixes and enhancements, please see the ChangeLog.

Some highlights include:

• Obtain version number. You can now see which version of solidDB for MySQL you are running with the “show status” command. In order to not break existing applications which rely on it, the version number of MySQL server on which solidDB for MySQL is built upon can still be determined by using the “select version()” function.

mysql> show status like 'solidDB_version';
+-----------------+---------------------+
| Variable_name   | Value …

Solid has released 5.0.27-0059. It is primarily a bug fixing release. You can get it from the usual place (http://dev.soliddb.com/download/).

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Solid has released 5.0.27-0058, which is the first point release after our GA in December. It is primarily a bug fixing release. You can get it from the usual place (http://dev.soliddb.com/download/).

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