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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 May 8, 2023. Take a look!
Updates to the releases of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 15.2, 14.7, 13.10, 12.14, 11.19
On May 22, 2023, we released updates to Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL versions 15.2, 14.7, 13.10, 12.14, and 11.19. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is a solution with the collection of tools from the PostgreSQL community that are tested to work together and serve to assist you in deploying and managing PostgreSQL. The aim of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is to address the operational issues like High-Availability, Disaster Recovery, Security, Performance and Scalability, and others that enterprises are facing.
You can review the full release notes as well as download the updates below:
15.2: https://docs.percona.
14.7: https://docs.percona.
13.10: https://docs.percona.
12.14: https://docs.percona.
11.19: https://docs.percona.
Percona Distribution for MongoDB 6.0.6
On May 25, 2023, Percona Distribution for MongoDB 6.0.6 was released. It 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. The aim of Percona Distribution for MongoDB is to enable you to run and operate your MongoDB efficiently with the data being consistently backed up. Release highlights include bug fixes and improvements introduced in MongoDB and included in Percona Distribution for MongoDB are the following:
- Fixed the handling of the read preference tags to respect their order and ignore other tags when all eligible replica set members are found.
- Allowed usage of clustered index in queries.
- Prevented a node in quiesce mode to win election.
- Fixed the issue with the
$avgoperator to return the sum instead of the average within a$groupstage - Fixed deadlock between
stepdownandrestoringlocks after yielding when all read tickets exhausted
Download Percona Distribution for MongoDB 6.0.6
Percona Distribution for MongoDB 4.4.21
On Tuesday, May 9, 2023, we released Percona Distribution for MongoDB 4.4.21. This release of Percona Distribution for MongoDB is based on Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4.21-20 and Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.1.0.
Download Percona Distribution for MongoDB 4.4.21
Percona Server for MongoDB 6.0.6-5
Percona Server for MongoDB 6.0.6-5 was released on May 25, 2023. It is an enhanced, source-available, and highly-scalable database that is a fully-compatible, drop-in replacement for MongoDB 6.0.6 Community Edition. It is based on MongoDB 6.0.6 Community edition and supports the upstream protocols and drivers. Bug fixes include:
- PSMDB-1211: Improved the master key rotation handling in case of failure
- PSMDB-1231: Register a master key for data-at-rest encryption on the KMIP server in the raw-bytes form
- PSMDB-1239: Fixed the issue with PSMDB failing to restart when wrong data-at-rest encryption options were used during the previous start
Download Percona Server for MongoDB 6.0.6-5
Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4.21-20
Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4.21-20 was released on May 9, 2023. It is a drop-in replacement for MongoDB 4.4.20 Community Edition and MongoDB 4.4.21 Community Edition enhanced with enterprise-grade features, supporting protocols and drivers of both MongoDB 4.4.20 and 4.4.21.
This release of Percona Server for MongoDB includes the improvements and bug fixes of MongoDB Community Edition 4.4.20 and 4.4.21.
Download Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4.21-20
Percona Distribution for MySQL (PXC-based variation) 8.0.32
On May 24, 2023, Percona Distribution for MySQL (Percona XtraDB Cluster-based variation) 8.0.32 was released, the most stable, scalable, and secure open source MySQL distribution. This update to the release of Percona Distribution for MySQL using the Percona XtraDB Cluster includes the fix for PXC-4211.
Download Percona Distribution for MySQL (PXC-based variation) 8.0.32
Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.42-45
Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.42-45 was released on May 23, 2023, and includes all the features and bug fixes available in MySQL 5.7.42 Community Edition and enterprise-grade features developed by Percona. Improvements and bug fixes provided by Oracle for MySQL 5.7.42 and included in Percona Server for MySQL are the following:
- In InnoDB, online DDL operations are prevented from accessing out-of-bounds memory
Download Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.42-45
Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0.32-24.2
On May 24, 2023, we released Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0.32-24.2, which supports critical business applications in your public, private, or hybrid cloud environment. Our free, open source, enterprise-grade solution includes the high availability and security features your business requires to meet your customer expectations and business goals. Bug fixes in this release include:
- PXC-4211: The server exited on the binary log rotation.
- PXC-4217: The cluster can intermittently abort a node on an insert query.
- PXC-4222: A node abruptly leaving the cluster causes the applier thread to hang on all the remaining nodes.
Download Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0.32-24.2
Percona XtraBackup 8.0.33-27
Percona XtraBackup 8.0.33-27 was released on May 25, 2023. It’s a 100% open source backup solution for all versions of Percona Server for MySQL and MySQL that performs online non-blocking, tightly compressed, highly secure full backups on transactional systems. This release merges the MySQL 8.0.33 code base. Percona has implemented a two-stage release process for each version. The first release primarily ensures compatibility with the latest MySQL version to help those customers who need an updated version of Percona XtraBackup as soon as possible. The second release contains additional bug fixes and any improvements or new features.
Download Percona XtraBackup 8.0.33-27
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.
