Upstream platform vendors have announced the general end of life (EOL) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) and its derivatives, as well as Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. With this announcement comes some implications to support for Percona software running on these operating systems.

RHEL 5 was EOL as of March 31st, 2017 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was end of life as of April 28th, 2017. Pursuant to our end of life policies, we are announcing that these EOLs will go into effect for Percona software on August 1st, 2017. As of this date, we will no longer be producing new packages, binary builds, hotfixes, or bug fixes for Percona software on these platforms.

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Percona is glad to announce the GA release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.18-16 on July 28, 2017 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).

Based on MySQL 5.7.18, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.18-16 is the current GA release in the Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, and you can find all the release …

Percona announces the GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.8 on July 24, 2017. You can download it from our download site and apt and yum repositories.

Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, Percona …

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.18-29.20 on June 2, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

NOTE: You can also run Docker containers from the images in the Docker Hub repository.

NOTE: Due to new package dependency, Ubuntu/Debian users should use apt-get dist-upgrade or apt-get installpercona-xtradb-cluster-57 to upgrade.

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Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.36-26.20 on June 2, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.36-26.20 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server 5.6.36-82.0
• Galera Replication library 3.20
• wsrep API version 26

All Percona software is open-source and free.

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Percona announces the GA release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.18-15 on May 26, 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 5.7.18, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.18-15 is the current GA release in the Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 series. Percona’s …

Percona announces the release of Percona Toolkit 3.0.3 on May 19, 2017.

Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools that perform a variety of MySQL and MongoDB server and system tasks too difficult or complex for DBAs to perform manually. Percona Toolkit, like all Percona software, is free and open source.

You download Percona Toolkit packages from the web site or install from official repositories.

This release includes the following changes:

New Features

• Added the --skip-check-slave-lag option for pt-table-checksum, …

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.36-82.0 on May 12, 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 5.6.36, and including all the bug fixes in it, …

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.55-38.8 on May 10, 2017. Based on MySQL 5.5.55, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.55-38.8 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 5.5.55-38.8 milestone on Launchpad. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.

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Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.35-26.20-3 on April 13, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.35-26.20-3 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server 5.6.35-81.0
• Galera Replication library 3.20
• wsrep API version 26

All Percona software is open-source and free.

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