Percona has released Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 as Generally Available (GA). Our Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 software is the company’s free, enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL Community Edition. Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 includes all of the great features in MySQL Community Edition 8.0. It also includes enterprise-class features from Percona made available free and open source. Percona Server for MySQL is trusted by thousands of enterprises to meet their need for a mature, proven, cost-effective MySQL solution that delivers excellent performance and reliability.

Downloads are available on the Percona Website and in the Percona Software Repositories.

Features in Percona Server for MySQL 8.0

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Percona announces the GA release of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.13-3 on December 21, 2018 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release merges changes of MySQL 8.0.13, including all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.13-3 is now the current GA release in the 8.0 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free.

Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 includes all the features available in MySQL 8.0 Community Edition in addition to enterprise-grade features developed by Percona. For a list of …

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.24-27 on December 19, 2018 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release merges changes of MySQL 5.7.24, including all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.24-27 is now the current GA release in the 5.7 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free.

If you’re currently using Percona Server for MySQL 5.7, Percona recommends upgrading to this version of 5.7 prior to upgrading to Percona Server for …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 8.0.4 on December 10, 2018. 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 …

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.24-26 on December 4, 2018 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release merges changes of MySQL 5.7.24, including all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.24-26 is now the current GA release in the 5.7 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free.

This release includes fixes to the following upstream CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures): CVE-2016-9843, CVE-2018-3155, …

Percona announces the release of Percona Server 5.6.42-84.2 on November 29, 2018 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).

Based on MySQL 5.6.42, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.42-84.2 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free.

Improvements

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Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.23-25 on November 21, 2018 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release merges changes of MySQL 5.7.23, including all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.23-25 is now the current GA release in the 5.7 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free.

This release fixes a critical bug in a RocksDB submodule.

Bugs Fixed

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Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.62-38.14 on November 21, 2018 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release merges changes of MySQL 5.5.62, including all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.62-38.14 is now the current GA release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free.

Note that Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.62-38.14 is the last release of the 5.5 series. This series goes EOL on December 1st, 2018.

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ProxySQL 1.4.12, released by ProxySQL, is now available for download in the Percona Repository along with an updated version of Percona’s proxysql-admin tool.

ProxySQL is a high-performance proxy, currently for MySQL and its forks (like Percona Server for MySQL and MariaDB). It acts as an intermediary for client requests seeking resources from the database. René Cannaò created ProxySQL for DBAs as a means of solving complex replication topology issues.

The ProxySQL 1.4.12 source and binary packages available at https://percona.com/downloads/proxysql …

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.23-24 on November 12, 2018 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release merges changes of MySQL 5.7.23, including all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.23-24 is now the current GA release in the 5.7 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free.

This release introduces InnoDB encryption improvements and merges upstream MyRocks changes. Also, we’ve improved the usage of column families in MyRocks. The InnoDB encryption …