Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.59-38.11 on January 30, 2018. Based on MySQL 5.5.59, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.59-38.11 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series.
Percona Server for MySQL is open-source and free. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.
Bugs Fixed:
innodb_large_prefix set to 1,
Blackhole storage engine was incompatible with InnoDB table …Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.20-29.24 (PXC) on January 26, 2018. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.
NOTE: Due to new package dependency,
Ubuntu/Debian users should use apt-get dist-upgrade,
apt upgrade, or apt-get install
percona-xtradb-cluster-57 to upgrade.
Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.20-29.24 is now the current release, based on the following:
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Still on Meltdown/Spectre, this time MariaDB Corporation has published Meltdown Vulnerability Impact On MariaDB Server – interesting the comparison between glibc/tcmalloc. Worthy Facebook thread about this too, with a bit of chat about MongoDB performance. Officially MongoDB says a degradation of 10-15%. ScaleGrid has a good post, in which they test MongoDB against …
[Read more]Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.6.1. This release contains fixes to bugs found after Percona Monitoring and Management 1.6.0 was released.
Bug fixes
Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.38-26.23 (PXC) on January 24, 2018. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.
Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.38-26.23 is now the current release, based on the following:
All Percona software is open-source and free. …
[Read more]Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 1.6.0. In this release, Percona Monitoring and Management Grafana metrics are available in the Advanced Data Exploration dashboard. We’ve improved the integration with MyRocks, and its data is now collected from SHOW GLOBAL STATUS.
The MongoDB Exporter now features two new metrics: mongodb_up to inform if the MongoDB Server is running and mongodb_scrape_errors_total reporting the total number of errors when scaping MongoDB.
In this release, we’ve greatly improved the performance of the mongodb:metrics monitoring service.
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 1.6.0 also …
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There is still much going on when it comes to Meltdown/Spectre in our world. Percona’s Vadim Tkachenko and Alexey Stroganov recently published Does the Meltdown Fix Affect Performance for MySQL on Bare Metal?. You also want to read Mark Callaghan’s excellent work on this: Meltdown vs MySQL part 1: in-memory sysbench and a core i3 NUC, XFS, nobarrier and the 4.13 Linux kernel, …
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Much is still being talked about the Meltdown/Spectre CPU security vulnerabilities. There’s an interesting Twitter thread showing performance impact on Kafka brokers. Jaime Crespo also writes about how it affects MariaDB Server 10.1.30 – Finding out the MySQL performance regression due to kernel mitigation for Meltdown CPU vulnerability. It’s worth checking out the thread for PostgreSQL too.
Something else worth thinking about, …
[Read more]Percona announces the GA release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.20-19 on January 3, 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 5.7.20, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.20-19 is the current GA release in the Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 series. …
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Happy New Year. Here’s to 2018 being a great year in the open source database world. What is in store for us? Probably: MySQL 8.0 and MariaDB Server 10.3 as generally available. What will we see in the rest of the space? Clouds? All I know is that we move fast, and it’s going to be fun to see what unfolds.
The biggest news this week may not necessarily be database related; it focused on CPU security vulnerabilities and the potential slowdowns of your servers once the updates are applied. Please do read Meltdown and Spectre: CPU Security Vulnerabilities. Peter Zaitsev himself, got quoted in …
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