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 8.0.40-26.21 (release notes, download), with Galera replication library 4.21 (release notes, download) implementing wsrep API version 26. It also includes Galera Cluster for MySQL 8.4, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 8.4.3-26.21 (release notes, …

Codership, the makers of Galera Cluster, are pleased to announce the availability of Helm charts for Galera Cluster for MySQL 8.0.39. It is available on our GitHub releases page, for convenience. You are encouraged to send feature requests at our GitHub issues.

Helm charts help you manage your Kubernetes applications, to install and upgrade any Kubernetes applications; think of it as a package manager. Kubernetes helps you automate the deployment, management and scaling of containerized applications.

For this blog post, we will use the example of setting it up at DigitalOcean, but the setup is similar, whether you do this in a …

Codership will be a sponsor at DOAG 2024 in Nuremberg, Germany. There will also be 2 Galera Cluster related talks to attend:

1. Building a Global, High-Availability Database with Galera Cluster: A Live Demo Colin Charles Codership
2. Safe Harbor! Wie der Galera Cluster ihre MySQL Datenbanken „unsinkbar“ macht. Matthias Jung Ordix

There are also a few Galera Cluster blog posts in German from our partner Ordix that are useful:

1. …

In current times, there is a high degree of focus on ensuring the availability and recovery of your production data. This can be challenging at times when using DBaaS solutions in the public cloud space, for example, when using AWS Aurora. Relying solely on a single cloud provider for database services can pose significant risks. […]

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.

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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 …

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 …

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 …