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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 November 13, 2023. Take a look.

Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS-based variant) 8.1.0

On November 27, 2023, Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS-based variant) 8.1.0 was released. It is the most stable, scalable, and secure open source MySQL distribution based on Percona Server for MySQL. A release highlight is the implementation of telemetry in Percona Server for MySQL that fills in the gaps in our understanding of how you use Percona Server for MySQL 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. Also, in this release, the mysql_native_password authentication plugin is deprecated and subject to removal in a future version.

Download Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS-based variant) 8.1.0

Percona Server for MySQL 8.1.0-1

Percona Server for MySQL 8.1.0-1 was released on November 27, 2023. It is a freely available, fully compatible, enhanced, and open source drop-in replacement for any MySQL database and includes all the features and bug fixes available in the MySQL 8.1 Community Edition in addition to enterprise-grade features developed by Percona. Improvements and bug fixes introduced by Oracle for MySQL 8.1 are included in Percona Server for MySQL. Please review the release notes for a full list of features and depreciations.

Download Percona Server for MySQL 8.1.0-1

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 16.1

On November 29, 2023, we released Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 16.1. 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.  A release highlight is that telemetry is now enabled in Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL to fill in the gaps in our understanding of how you use it and help us 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 Distribution for PostgreSQL document.

Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 16.1

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 15.5

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 15.5 was released on November 30, 2023. This release of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is based on PostgreSQL 15.5. Release highlights include:

  • Docker images are now available for x86_64 architectures. They aim to simplify the developers’ experience with the Distribution.
  • Telemetry is now enabled in Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL to fill in the gaps in our understanding of how you use it and help us improve our products.
  • The percona-postgis33 and percona-pgaudit packages on YUM-based operating systems are renamed percona-postgis33_15 and percona-pgaudit15 respectively

Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 15.5

Percona XtraBackup 8.0.35-30

Percona XtraBackup 8.0.35-30 was released on December 4, 2023. This release merges the MySQL 8.0.35 code base, and includes several bug fixes, including:

  • PXB-3003: Percona XtraBackup discovering redo logs to parse and the server purging redo logs simultaneously could cause a race condition.
  • PXB-3147: Percona XtraBackup failed to execute the DO innodb_redo_log_consumer_register("PXB"); query.
  • PXB-3181: The use of the innodb-use-native-aio=true option resulted in printing duplicate timestamps.

Download Percona XtraBackup 8.0.35-30

Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.3.1

On December 4, 2023, Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.3.1 was released. It is a distributed, low-impact solution for consistent backups of MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets. This is a tool for creating consistent backups across a MongoDB sharded cluster (or a non-sharded replica set) and for restoring those backups to a specific point in time. Release highlights include:

  • Added support for Percona Server for MongoDB 7.0.
  • 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 Backup for MongoDB 2.3.1

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.

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