Dear Community,

Percona Server 5.0.90, release 21 is available for use.

Comparing to the previous release it has following new features:

• The build is based on MySQL-5.0.90

Fixed bugs:

• Fixed Bug #539190 Percona-XtraDB package doesn't allow libmysqlclient15off
• Fixed Bug #479106 mysql-5.0.87 + patches-5.0.86 compile fail in ubuntu 9.10 (karmic)
• Fixed tests mysql, mysql_upgrade, ssl*

See release notes for earlier changes.

RPMs and DEB packages are available in Percona repository.

Percona wants to upgrade our documentation to improve its readability
and to make it more useful for you, our clients and partners. We are
so busy developing software and handling your needs that we have
trouble finishing all the documentation! We think you can help.

Helping us will give you a chance to interact closely with lead Perona
developers and learn more about Percona's products as well as our
development process.

Tasks include talking to developers, writing text, and interacting
with an editor. (Andy Oram, our O'Reilly editor on the book High
Performance MySQL, will take on the volunteer role.) You should have
some understanding of MySQL and Percona's extensions, and of way
XtraDB and XtraBackup work.

Documents we want to start with include:

* Product features (we made a …

Dear Community,

The notice is hereby given that next version 1.2 of XtraBackup software is released.

The list of changes in this version includes:
Changelog:

• XtraBackup supports now XtraDB 10
• tar4ibd supports variable page size and fast_checksum of XtraDB
• Supported 32bit platform for Centos 5, Centos 4, Debian lenny and etch, Ubuntu Karmic, Jaunty, Intrepid, Hardy, FreeBSD

Fixeb bugs in this release:

• Bug #550776: "--use-memory" is not used at InnoDB-Plugin based version

The binary packages for as well as source code of the XtraBackup is available on http://www.percona.com/percona-builds/XtraBackup/XtraBackup-1.2/.

…

We've just launched training for London, Seattle, San Francisco, Atlanta, Orlando, Columbus, Dallas, San Diego, Denver, Minneapolis, New York City, …

Dear Community,

We are announcing today the new version 9.1 of XtraDB storage engine.

The name of binaries has changed to Percona-XtraDB. It is applicable to all packages including RPM, DEB and tar.gz packages.

New features in version 9.1:

• MySQL 5.1.43 is taken as the basis
• packages name changed to Percona-XtraDB
• Enabled support of SSL
• Enabled profiling
• Added script to sort LRU dump
• New supported platforts are added. The full list includes:
  • CentOS 5 (x86_64 and i386)
  • CenOS 4 (x86_64 and i386)
  • Debian lenny (x86_64 and i386)
  • Debian etch (x86_64 and i386)
  • Ubuntu  Jaunty (x86_64 and i386)
  • Ubuntu Intrepid (x86_64 and i386)
  • Ubuntu Hardy (x86_64 and i386)
  • FreeBSD 8 (x86_64 and i386) …

We have been using tpcc-mysql benchmark for long time, and there many results published in our blog, but that's just single workload. That's why we are looking into different benchmarks, and one
of them is TPCE. Yasufumi made some efforts to make TPCE working with MySQL, and we are making it available for public consideration.

You can download it from our Lauchpad Percona-tools project, it's
bzr branch lp:~percona-dev/perconatools/tpcemysql

Important DISCLAIMER:
Using this package you should agree with TPC-E License Agreement,
which in human words is:

• You can't name results as "TPC Benchmark Results"
• You can't compare results with results published on http://www.tpc.org/ and you can't pretend the …

After a nice long vacation, it's time to unveil our destinations for public classes in 2010.  We are now offering a course for Developers as well as DBAs.  The dates are:

• Seattle 16 February
• San Francisco 18-19 February
• Boston 22-23 February
• New York City 25-26 February
• Montréal …

Dear Community,

As of today Release 9 of XtraDB storage engine is available.

The release includes following new features:

• The release is base on 1.0.6 version of InnoDB plugin.
• MySQL 5.1.42 as a base release
• Separate purge thread and LRU dump is implemented (this feature was actually added in Release 8, but somehow it was forgotten)
• New patch innodb_relax_table_creation
• Added extended statistics to slow log
• Adjust defaults with performance intention
• Added parameter to control checkpoint age
• Added recovery statistics output when crash recovery (disabled by default)
• Patch to dump and restore innodb_buffer_pool

Fixed bugs:

• Bug#488315:
  rename columns and add …

We're hiring. We are looking for the following qualifications:

1. Expert knowledge of MySQL. Not just "certified" -- years of production experience with it. You need to know server internals, for example. You need to be able to do anything from optimizing difficult queries to moving high-volume services between data centers without interruption.
2. Expert knowledge of InnoDB. You should understand its inner workings well enough to answer questions about its internals from memory, such as "how does the insert buffer work?" or "how does MVCC work on secondary indexes?" You should also know why it has trouble on some workloads and how to solve that.
3. Expert knowledge of Linux systems administration. You need to know how to solve issues with filesystems, hardware, and networking. You need to be able to use tools such as gdb, strace, tcpdump, etc to solve weird problems.
4. Expert with Apache, memcached, and other …

Dear Community,

We are pleased to present the 20th build of MySQL server with Percona patches.

Comparing to the previous release it has following new features:

• The build is based on MySQL-5.0.87
• innodb_rw_lock.patch is ported from InnoDB Plugin 1.0.3
• To be compatible with RedHat RPM repository, the naming scheme has changed to

      <rpm name>-<mysql version>-<percona build version>.<buildnumber>.<redhat version>.<architecture>.rpm

  Example:

  MySQL-server-percona-5.0.87-b20.29.rhel5.x86_64.rpm

See release notes for earlier changes.

Since the build 20 MySQL server with Percona patches is available in …