Kontrollkit has been updated and has a new script for optimizing your database schemas. Some of the cnf files have been updated, some of the other files have had link corrections. Overall, a nice update. You can find the download here: http://kontrollsoft.com/software-downloads

The new script make_sandbox_from_installed meets the expectations by creating a fake BASEDIR with symbolic links.
Other important additions:
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We’re please to announce that the latest version of Kontrollbase is available. The most important part of this release is that the IE7 bugs have been fixed. There are a several other good changes too, which you can see in the change log. As per usual you can grab the download from our download page.

By now many folks know that MySQL documentation is not changing its license. This is an issue with many sides, but before I go through them, I want to address a comment made by Masood Mortazavi:

People who are interested in forking the server — and potentially interested in creating what is in effect separate communities of their own — should probably develop their own docs for their own forks.

(There is a cost involved here, I know. However, it should be a cost worth paying if developers of forks really believe in their work. MySQL AB certainly paid that cost in developing the docs while it had already made the code itself freely available under GPL. So, the playing ground among all forks, etc., …

We announce next beta version of our xtrabackup tool.

Changelist includes:

- set innodb_fast_shutdown=1 on xtrabackup shutdown
- set innodb_write_io_threads=10 by default for fast buffer_pool flushing during recovery
- build xtrabackup with --with-extra-charsets=complex
Bug #357653: innobackupex-1.5.1 --copy-back fails
Bug #358194: 2nd-phase is very slow
Bug #358266: xtrabackup-0.5 dies with SEGV on bad command line arguments
Bug #359341: innobackupex still does not read defaults-file

You can download current binaries RPM for RHEL4 and RHEL5 (compatible with CentOS also), DEB for Debian/Ubuntu and tar.gz for Mac OS / Intel 64bit there:
http://www.percona.com/mysql/xtrabackup/0.6/.
By the same link you can find general .tar.gz with binaries which can be run on any modern Linux distribution.
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We’re proud to announce that the new version of Kontrollbase is available for download. The enterprise MySQL database monitor and analytics application has been getting a lot of improvements and bug fixes since our initial beta release. Included in this release is an improved web-based installer, socket options for the client server connections, more troubleshooting solutions in the documentation, and some JSON fixes for form submission reporting. You can read more about the full features here: http://kontrollsoft.com/software-kontrollbase and download the new release here: http://kontrollsoft.com/software-downloads

MySQL Proxy 0.7.0 is finally released:

• https://launchpad.net/mysql-proxy/trunk/0.7.0

The full ChangeLog is a bit longer as 0.7.0 was more than a year in the works. To make it short: it is faster, better and more flexible.

Binaries will be release at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-proxy/index.html shortly.

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• A bug in the connect()-phase that caused to leave the Naggle-algorithm enabled caused a unneccesary high latency.
• We also changed the buffering of result-sets to only …

Today we glad to announce release 1.0.3-4 of our XtraDB storage engine.

Here is a list of enhancements in this release:

• Move to MySQL 5.1.33
• Move to InnoDB plugin 1.0.3
• more reliable replication, innodb_overwrite_relay_log_info patch now included in the release
• fix assertions for …

0.7.0 is (finally) around the corner. We are only pushing some last minute build-fixes, but otherwise we are done.

If you want to help us getting a good 0.7.0 release out, please test the snapshot RPMs we did build with the help of OpenSuSEs build-service.

At http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&p=1&q=mysql-proxy-snapshot you will always find the latest snaptshot packages that we build from the latest launchpad code (everything > r640 is current). We have native binaries for Fedora 9 and 10 and OpenSuSE 11.0 and 11.1 right now.

If everything goes well, we should have a 0.7.0 release …

We added some new features to our backup tool, namely:

• Now we can handle log file taken during backup with size exceeding 4GB, it may happen if backup takes too long and you have a lot of updates on InnoDB tables
• Progress meter during recovery step, now you can see what percentage of log file was handled

PLAIN TEXT CODE:

1. InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 1316 3688693248 (34 %)
2. ...
3. InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 1316 4113366528 (68 %)
4. InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 1316 4117548544 (68 %)

Also we did extensive testing and fixed bugs, so now we consider current state as feature complete and with beta-release stability.

You can …