It’s time for the release roundup!
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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 March 13, 2023. Take a look!
Percona Monitoring and Management 2.36
Percona Monitoring and Management 2.36 was released on March 23, 2023. It is an open source database monitoring, management, and observability solution for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. We are excited to announce PMM 2.36 now supports pg_stat_monitor 2.0 (PGSM 2.0) in QAN, a powerful PostgreSQL query performance monitoring tool. By downloading this update, you will have access to the latest improvements and fixes covered by PGSM2. Important: PostgreSQL versions 11 and 12, along with PGSM 2.0, will be supported in PMM 2.37.0.
Download Percona Monitoring and Management 2.36
Percona Distribution for MySQL (PXC-based variant) 8.0.31
On March 15, 2023, Percona Distribution for MySQL (Percona XtraDB Cluster-based variant) 8.0.31 was released. It is the most stable, scalable, and secure open-source MySQL distribution, with two download options: one based on Percona Server for MySQL and one based on Percona XtraDB Cluster. This release is focused on the Percona XtraDB Cluster-based deployment variation.
This release adds the GCache encryption and Write-Set cache encryption feature in tech preview, along with improvements and bug fixes introduced by Oracle for MySQL 8.0.31.
Download Percona Distribution for MySQL (PXC-based variant) 8.0.31
Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS-based variation) 8.0.32
Percona Distribution for MySQL (Percona Server for MySQL-based variation) 8.0.32 was released on March 20, 2023. This release is focused on the Percona Server for MySQL-based deployment variation. It is based on Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.32-24. In this release, Percona decided to revert the following MySQL bug fix:
The data and the GTIDs backed up by mysqldump were inconsistent when the options --single-transaction and --set-gtid-purged=ON were both used. It was because in between the transaction started by mysqldump and the fetching of GTID_EXECUTED, GTIDs on the server could have increased already. With this fixed, a FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK is performed before the fetching of GTID_EXECUTED to ensure its value is consistent with the snapshot taken by mysqldump.
The MySQL fix also added a requirement when using –single-transaction and executing FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK for the RELOAD privilege. (Bug #33630199, Bug #105761)
Download Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS-based variation) 8.0.32
Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.32
March 20, 2023, saw the release of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.32. It includes all the features and bug fixes available in the MySQL 8.0.32 Community Edition and enterprise-grade features developed by Percona. A release highlight is a decision to revert the following MySQL bug fix:
The data and the GTIDs backed up by mysqldump were inconsistent when the options –single-transaction and –set-gtid-purged=ON were both used. It was because in between the transaction started by mysqldump and the fetching of GTID_EXECUTED, GTIDs on the server could have increased already. With this fixed, a FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK is performed before the fetching of GTID_EXECUTED to ensure its value is consistent with the snapshot taken by mysqldump.
The MySQL fix also added a requirement when using –single-transaction and executing FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK for the RELOAD privilege. (Bug #33630199, Bug #105761)
Download Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.32
Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0.31-23
Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0.31-23 was released on March 14, 2023. It 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.
Percona XtraDB Cluster is based on Percona Server for MySQL. This release adds the feature GCache encryption and Write-Set cache encryption, which is in tech preview, and includes improvements and bug fixes introduced by Oracle for MySQL 8.0.31.
Download Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0.31-23
Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 15.2
On March 20, 2023, Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 15.2 was released. It 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. Release highlights include:
- A new extension
pgpool– a middleware between PostgreSQL server and client for high availability, connection pooling and load balancing – is added. - Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is now available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and compatible derivatives.
Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 15.2
Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 14.7
On March 23, 2023, we released Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 14.7. This release of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is based on PostgreSQL 14.7. Release highlights include:
- Added a new extension
pgpool– a middleware between PostgreSQL server and client for high availability, connection pooling, and load balancing. - Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is now available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and compatible derivatives
Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 14.7
Percona Distribution for MongoDB 5.0.15
Percona Distribution for MongoDB 5.0.15 was released on March 16, 2023. 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. Warning: Due to critical issues identified in previous releases that may affect data integrity and performance, we recommend upgrading all production environments to the latest version – currently Percona Distribution for MongoDB 5.0.15. Find details about those issues in MongoDB 5.0 Community Edition release notes.
Download Percona Distribution for MongoDB 5.0.15
Percona Distribution for MongoDB 4.4.19
Percona Distribution for MongoDB 4.4.19 was released on March 20, 2023. It includes the following components:
- Percona Server for MongoDB is a fully compatible source-available, drop-in replacement for MongoDB.
- Percona Backup for MongoDB is a distributed, low-impact solution for achieving consistent backups of MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets.
This release of Percona Distribution for MongoDB is based on Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4.19-19 and Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.0.4. Please read the release notes for highlights, bug fixes, and improvements.
Download Percona Distribution for MongoDB 4.4.19
Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.15-13
On March 16, 2023, we released Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.15-13. It is an enhanced, source-available, and highly-scalable database that is a fully-compatible, drop-in replacement for MongoDB 5.0.15 Community Edition, supporting MongoDB 5.0.15 protocols and drivers.
Warning: Due to critical issues identified in previous releases that may affect data integrity and performance, we recommend upgrading all production environments to the latest version – currently MongoDB 5.0.15. Find details about those issues in MongoDB 5.0 Community Edition release notes.
Download Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.15-13
Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4.19-19
On March 20, 2023, we released Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4.19-19, a source available, highly-scalable database that is a fully-compatible, drop-in replacement for MongoDB 4.4.19 Community Edition enhanced with enterprise-grade features. It supports MongoDB 4.4.19 protocols and drivers.
Release Highlights include:
- The support for authentication using AWS IAM enables you to natively integrate Percona Server for MongoDB with AWS services, increase security of your infrastructure by setting up password-less authentication and offload your DBAs from managing different sets of secrets. This a technical preview feature.
- Improved master key rotation for data at rest encrypted with HashiCorp Vault enables you to use the same secret key path on every server in your entire deployment, thus significantly simplifying the secrets management and key rotation process.
Download Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4.19-19
Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.0.5
March 23, 2023, saw the release of Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.0.5, 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.
This release introduces the following fixes:
- for the physical restore process for deployments where the mongod
--dbpathoption has a forward slash (‘/’) as the last char - security vulnerability CVE-2022-41723 by updating the Golang library dependencies to the latest versions
Download Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.0.5
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