Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

Percona Live Europe Dublin

Are you affected by the Ryanair flight cancellations? Have you made alternative arrangements? Have you registered for the community dinner? Even speakers have to register, so this is a separate ticket cost! There will be fun lightning talks in addition to food and drink.

You are, of course, already registered for Percona Live Europe Dublin, …

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.37-26.21 on September 20, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.37-26.21 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.37-82.2
• Galera Replication library 3.21
• wsrep API version 26

All Percona software is open-source and free.

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Percona, in collaboration with Facebook, is proud to announce the first experimental release of MyRocks in Percona Server for MySQL 5.7, with packages.

Back in October of 2016, Peter Zaitsev announced that we were going to port MyRocks from Facebook MySQL to Percona Server for MySQL.

Then in April 2017, Vadim Tkachenko announced the availability of experimental builds of Percona Server for MySQL with the MyRocks storage engine.

Now in September 2017, we are pleased to announce the first full experimental release of MyRocks with packages for Percona Server for MySQL …

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.19-17 on August 31, 2017. 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 5.7.19, and including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL …

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.37-82.2 on August 25, 2017. 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 5.6.37, and including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL …

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.57-38.9 on August 23, 2017. Based on MySQL 5.5.57, including all of its bug fixes, Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.57-38.9 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series.

Percona Server for MySQL is open-source and free. You can find release details in the 5.5.57-38.9 milestone on Launchpad. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.

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Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.2.2 on August 23, 2017.

For install and upgrade instructions, see Deploying Percona Monitoring and Management.

This release contains bug fixes related to performance and introduces various improvements. It also contains an updated version of Grafana.

Changes in PMM Server

We introduced the following changes in PMM Server 1.2.2:

Bug fixes¶

• PMM-927: The error …

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.2.1 on August 16, 2017.

For install and upgrade instructions, see Deploying Percona Monitoring and Management.

This hotfix release improves memory consumption.

Changes in PMM Server

We’ve introduced the following changes in PMM Server 1.2.1:

Bug fixes

• PMM-1280: PMM server affected by nGinx CVE-2017-7529. An …

Welcome to a new weekly column on the Percona blog. My name is Colin Charles, Percona Chief Evangelist, and I have been involved in MySQL, MariaDB Server and the open source community for over a decade. Now I am at Percona, and this is my weekly column.

When you start a column, you have ask yourself what you’ll be writing about. Keeping the focus on the reader is what’s crucial. With this in mind, I plan to cover happenings, pointers and maybe even musings in this column. It’s August, and while many are away on summer vacations, there’s still plenty happening in the database world. So maybe this will be a little like the now-defunct, Weekly MySQL News. It will be broader than just MySQL, however, and focus on open source databases (after all, Percona’s mission is to …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.36-82.1 on August 1, 2017 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).

Based on MySQL 5.6.36, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.34-79.1 is the current GA release in the Percona Server for MySQL 5.6 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can be found in …