Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.43-28.32 on February 28, 2019. Binaries are available from the downloads section or from our software repositories.

This release of Percona XtraDB Cluster includes the support of Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish). Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.43-28.32 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server 5.6.43-84.3
• Codership WSREP API release 5.6.42
• Codership Galera library 3.25

All Percona software is …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.25-31.35 on February 28, 2018. Binaries are available from the downloads section or from our software repositories.

This release of Percona XtraDB Cluster includes the support of Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish). Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.25-31.35 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.25-28
• Galera Replication library 3.25
• Galera/Codership WSREP API Release 5.7.24

All Percona software is open-source and free.

Bugs Fixed

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Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.42-28.30 (PXC) on January 4, 2019. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.42-28.30 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server 5.6.42
• Codership WSREP API release 5.6.42
• Codership Galera library 3.25

All Percona software is open-source and free.

Fixed …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.24-31.33 (PXC) on January 4, 2019. Binaries are available from the downloads section or from our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.24-31.33 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.24
• Galera Replication library 3.25
• Galera/Codership WSREP API Release 5.7.24

Deprecated

The following variables are deprecated starting from this release:

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Let’s talk about MySQL high availability (HA) and synchronous replication once more.

It’s part of a longer series on some high availability reference architecture solutions over geographically distributed areas.

Part 1: Reference Architecture(s) for High Availability Solutions in Geographic Distributed Scenarios: Why Should I Care?

Part 2: MySQL High Availability On-Premises: A Geographically Distributed Scenario

The Problem

A question I often get from customers is: How do I achieve high availability in case if I need to spread my data in different, distant locations? …

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In this article, we’ll look at an example of an on-premises, geographically distributed MySQL high availability solution. It’s part of a longer series on some high availability reference architecture solutions over geographically distributed areas.

Part 1: Reference Architecture(s) for High Availability Solutions in Geographic Distributed Scenarios: Why Should I Care?

Percona consulting’s main aim is to identify simple solutions to complex problems. We try to focus on identifying the right tool, a more efficient solution, and what can be done to make …

To resolve a critical regression, Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.23-31.31.2 on October 2, 2018 Binaries are available from the downloads section or from our software repositories.

This release resolves a critical regression in Galera’s wsrep library and supersedes 5.7.23-31.31

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.23-31.31.2 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server 5.7.23-23
• Galera …

This release has been superseded by 5.7.23-31.31.2 after a critical regression was found. Please update to the latest release.

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.23-31.31 on September 26, 2018. Binaries are available from the downloads section or from our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.23-31.31 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.23
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Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.41-28.28 (PXC) on September 18, 2018. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.41-28.28 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.41
• Codership WSREP API Rrelease 5.6.41
• Codership Galera library 3.24

Fixed Bugs

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ProxySQL is the most preferred and is widely used for load-balancing MySQL workload, thanks to Rene Cannon & Team for the great tool, and kudos on the recent release of ProxySQL 1.4.10, with a lot of bug fixes. ProxySQL is simple in design, lightweight, highly efficient and feature rich, We have been working with ProxySQL in production for our client quite a sometime, we have also shared some of our encounters/experience and use cases in the below blogs.

• ProxySQL for replication – Read Write split
• ProxySQL for handling bad queries
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