Welcome to the first release roundup of 2024… and we’ve been busy! Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona software is designed for peak performance, uncompromised security, limitless scalability, and disaster-proofed availability.
Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software. It offers highlights, critical information, links to the full release notes, and direct links to the software or service itself to download.
Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since December 18, 2023. Take a look.
Update to the release of Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS-based variation) 8.1.0
The update to the release of Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS-based variation) 8.1.0 came out on December 21, 2023. This update to the release of Percona Distribution for MySQL using the Percona Server for MySQL includes the new version of Percona Toolkit 3.5.6 that fixes Go security vulnerability.
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Second update to the release of Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS-based variation) 8.1.0
The second update to the release of Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS-based variation) 8.1.0 was released on December 22, 2023. This update to the release of Percona Distribution for MySQL using the Percona Server for MySQL includes the new version of Percona Toolkit 3.5.7.
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Percona Distribution for
The following items are deprecated in this release and using any of these items may cause a warning:
- The
binlog_transaction_dependency_trackingserver system variable - The
oldandnewserver system variables - The
--character-set-client-handshakeserver variable INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PROCESSLISTand theSHOW PROCESSLISTcommand- The
performance_schema_show_processlistvariable
We recommend migrating from these items as soon as possible.
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Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.35-27
Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.35-27 was released on December 27, 2023. Percona Server for MySQL implements telemetry that fills in the gaps in our understanding of how you use Percona Server to improve our products. Participation in the anonymous program is optional. You can opt-out if you prefer not to share this information. Find more information in the Telemetry on Percona Server for MySQL document.
This merge fixes the following issue:
- PS-8849: The server exited with the
Assertion failure: row0mysql.cc:218:len < 256 * 256 thread.
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Second update to the release of Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS-based variation) 8.0.34
The second update to the release of Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS-based variation) 8.0.34 came out on December 21, 2023. This update to the release of Percona Distribution for MySQL using the Percona Server for MySQL includes the new version of Percona Toolkit 3.5.6 that fixes Go security vulnerability.
Third update to the release of Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS-based variation) 8.0.34
December 22, 2023 saw the third update to the release of Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS-based variation) 8.0.34. This update to the release of Percona Distribution for MySQL using the Percona Server for MySQL includes the new version of Percona Toolkit 3.5.7.
Update to the release of Percona Distribution for MySQL (PXC-based variation) 8.0.34
On December 21, 2023, we released the update to the release of Percona Distribution for MySQL (PXC-based variation) 8.0.34. This update to the release of Percona Distribution for MySQL using the Percona XtraDB Cluster includes the new version of Percona Toolkit 3.5.6 that fixes Go security vulnerability.
Download the update to the release of Percona Distribution for MySQL (PXC-based variation) 8.0.34
Second update to the release of Percona Distribution for MySQL (PXC-based variation) 8.0.34
December 22, 2023, saw the second update to the release of Percona Distribution for MySQL (PXC-based variation) 8.0.34. This update to the release of Percona Distribution for MySQL using the Percona XtraDB Cluster includes the new version of Percona Toolkit 3.5.7.
Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.44-31.65
Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.44-31.65 was released on December 26, 2023. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.44-31.65 is the final release of the Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7 series.
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Percona Distribution for MongoDB 5.0.23
Percona Distribution for MongoDB 5.0.23 was released on December 21, 2023. Percona Distribution for MongoDB is a freely available MongoDB database alternative, giving you a single solution that combines enterprise components from the open source community, designed and tested to work together. Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.3.1 enhancements include the following:
- Support for Percona Server for MongoDB 7.0.x
- The ability to define custom endpoints when using Microsoft Azure Blob Storage for backups
- Improved PBM Docker image to allow making physical backups with the shared mongodb data volume
- Updated Golang libraries that include fixes for the security vulnerability CVE-2023-39325.
Download Percona Distribution for MongoDB 5.0.23
Percona Distribution for MongoDB 4.4.26
Percona Distribution for MongoDB 4.4.26 was released on December 18, 2023. This release of Percona Distribution for MongoDB is based on Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4.26-25 and Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.3.1.
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Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.23-20
Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.23-20 was released on December 21, 2023. Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.23-20 is an enhanced, source-available, and highly-scalable database that is a fully-compatible, drop-in replacement for MongoDB 5.0.23 Community Edition. It supports MongoDB 5.0.23 protocols and drivers.
Download Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.23-20
Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4.26-25
On December 18, 2023, Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4.26-25 was released. Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4.26-25 is a source available, highly-scalable database that is a fully-compatible, drop-in replacement for MongoDB 4.4.26 Community Edition enhanced with enterprise-grade features.
Download Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4.26-25
Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 2.3.0
Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 2.3.0 was released on December 21, 2023. Percona Operators are 100% open source, free from vendor lock-in, usage restrictions, and expensive contracts, and include enterprise-ready features by default: backup/restore, high availability, replication, sharding, logging, and more.
Download the Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 2.3.0
Percona Toolkit 3.5.7
Percona Toolkit 3.5.7 was released on December 23, 2023. Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced open source command-line tools, developed and used by the Percona technical staff, that are engineered to perform a variety of MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually. This is a HotFix release that does not have any public bug fixes.
Download Percona Toolkit 3.5.7
Percona Toolkit 3.5.6
Percona Toolkit 3.5.6 was released on December 21, 2023. New features include PR-669: Add pt-galera-log-explainer, and improvements include:
- PT-1860: pt-osc case sensitivity issue (Thanks to ikruglov implementing this improvement)
- PR-388: Check undefined skip check slave lag schema change (Thanks to Chrys Swingler for the contribution)
- PR-471: Support adding explain output for slow query in JSON
Download Percona Toolkit 3.5.6
That’s it for this roundup, and be sure to follow us on Twitter to stay up-to-date on the most recent releases! Percona is a leader in providing best-of-breed enterprise-class support, consulting, managed services, training, and software for MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and other open source databases in on-premises and cloud environments and is trusted by global brands to unify, monitor, manage, secure, and optimize their database environments.
