When I joined MySQL back in June of 2005, one of the first “MySQL Truths” I learned and repeated often when discussing MySQL with others was “release early, release often.” If you’ve been using MySQL for any length of time, you know what that statement means – it meant that MySQL was: (1) dedicated to getting new features and enhancements into the hands of its community so the software’s quality could be validated; (2) eager to take early feedback on those features so the input could rapidly be incorporated back into the product allowing everyone to benefit; (3) committed to very frequent releases of the software so helpful new features and/or external contributions that were ready for action could quickly be put into play and not sit idle on the shelf. And if you’ve been around Open Source for a while now, you know this is the spirit in which most providers of Open Source software operate.

This is the 150th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Someone accidentally left Dave Edwards‘ cage unlocked, and he escaped, thus leaving me with the pleasurable duty of compiling the 150th weekly Log Buffer.

Many people other than Dave are finding release this week. Giuseppe Maxia explains some details of MySQL’s New Release Model. Andrew Morgan announces a New MySQL Cluster Maintenance Release. Aleksandr Kuzminsky of the MySQL Performance …

Dear community,

We are pleased to announce the build16 of MySQL server® with Percona patches.

Since the build13 there was a couple of customer specific releases, which explains cutover in numbering and a pause between the builds. Also we prepared build for both 5.0.77 and 5.0.82 versions.

Since that time new patches were added:

• profiling_slow.patch

This patch adds information from SHOW PROFILE to query information in slow.log output.
profiling_server. This variable ( ON / OFF ) enables profiling of all queries (in all connections).
profiling_use_getrusage. This variable ( ON / OFF ) enables usage of getrusage function in profiling.
Be careful, enabling profiling_server may cause performance degradation, especially with …

In an earlier post, the pursuit of openness, I announced that MySQL is working at a new release model.

There are still a few details to sort out, but the general plan is ready. The new release model has been approved and starts to operate immediately.

The basic principles of this model are:

• The trunk is always at least in beta quality.
• A milestone starts in beta quality ( never in alpha) with a merge between the trunk and a stage tree;
• Milestone releases, with RC quality, released every three to six months.
• Integration windows between milestones allow the insertion of new features from stage trees
• GA releases happen every 12 to 18 months;
• There are not more than two releases in active …

In an earlier post, the pursuit of openness, I announced that MySQL is working at a new release model.

There are still a few details to sort out, but the general plan is ready. The new release model has been approved and starts to operate immediately.

The basic principles of this model are:

• The trunk is always at least in beta quality.
• A milestone starts in beta quality ( never in alpha) with a merge between the trunk and a stage tree;
• Milestone releases, with RC quality, released every three to six months.
• Integration windows between milestones allow the insertion of new features from stage trees
• GA releases happen every 12 to 18 months;
• There are not more than two releases in active …

In an earlier post, the pursuit of openness, I announced that MySQL is working at a new release model.

There are still a few details to sort out, but the general plan is ready. The new release model has been approved and starts to operate immediately.

The basic principles of this model are:

• The trunk is always at least in beta quality.
• A milestone starts in beta quality ( never in alpha) with a merge between the trunk and a stage tree;
• Milestone releases, with RC quality, released every three to six months.
• Integration windows between milestones allow the insertion of new features from stage trees
• GA releases happen every 12 to 18 months;
• There are not more than two releases in active …

This Thursday (June 11th, 14:00 UTC), Tomas Ulin will give a MySQL University session on The New MySQL Release Model. Tomas is the MySQL Server Director, and will explain the new MySQL release model which has just recently been announced.

For MySQL University sessions, point your browser to this page. You need a browser with a working Flash plugin. You may register for a Dimdim account, but you don't have to. (Dimdim is the conferencing system we're using for MySQL University sessions. It provides integrated voice streaming, chat, whiteboard, session recording, and more.) All MySQL University sessions are recorded, that is, slides and voice can be viewed as a Flash movie (.flv). …

We are happy to announce that MySQL Proxy 0.7.1 is available in a source and binary release for many popular platforms.

This release contains a few minor bugfixes and changes in directory layout over the previous 0.7.0 release.

• moved plugins to lib/mysql-proxy/plugins
• moved lua modules to lib/mysql-proxy/lua
• moved libs to lib/

Please report any problems on http://bugs.mysql.com, our Launchpad discussion mailing list at https://launchpad.net/~mysql-proxy-discuss or on IRC: #mysql-proxy on irc.freenode.net.

Please note that the binary for Windows is currently still the old 0.6.1 release and will be updated …

If you get the source code through the …

Nice changes in this release. We have a new tab on the host page for “Variables” which contains three sub tabs: “cnf file”, “global variables”, and “global status”. These tabs display the most recent information gathered from your servers in the event that you would like to see the raw data that is going on. It’s also nice to be able to refer to this data without having to login to the server to get it.

As usual, you can download the new release here: http://kontrollsoft.com/software-downloads