Security Fix for Percona XtraBackup, Improvements in Percona Backup for MongoDB: Release Roundup 4/27/2020

It’s release roundup time here at Percona!

Our Release Roundups showcase the latest software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software, with highlights and critical information, as well as links to the full release notes and direct links to the software or service itself.

Today’s post includes those which have come out since April 13, 2020, including security fixes for Percona XtraBackup and Percona XtraDB Cluster, as well as new features and improvements for Percona Monitoring and Management.

 

Percona XtraBackup 2.4.20

On April 14, 2020,  Percona XtraBackup 2.4.20 was released. It’s a free, open source solution, that enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. This release fixes security vulnerability CVE-2020-10997.

Download Percona XtraBackup 2.4.20

 

Percona Backup for MongoDB 1.1.3

Percona Backup for MongoDB 1.1.3 was also released on April 14, 2020. It is a fully supported, open source, community backup tool for performing consistent hot backups in MongoDB. In version 1.1.3, several improvements were added, including the resolution of restore-blocking issues related to admin.system.version, and improved pbm control collection, etc. metadata for restores. Also, there were bug fixes, including PBM-425 where pbm-agent could fail when restoring and PBM-430 where S3 store resync didn’t work if the store had a prefix.

Download Percona Backup for MongoDB 1.1.3 

 

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.28-31.41.2

April 14, 2020, also saw the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.28-31.41.2, which is now the current release. It is a high availability solution that helps enterprises avoid downtime and outages and meet expected customer experience, based on Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.28-31, Galera/Codership WSREP API Release 5.7.28, and Galera Replication library 3.28. This release fixes security vulnerability CVE-2020-10996.

Download Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.28-31.41.2

 

Percona Monitoring and Management 2.5.0

Continuing what was a busy day, April 14, 2020, we released Percona Monitoring and Management 2.5.0, a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL performance. Many new features and improvements were added, and several bugs were fixed. Here’s a small sampling:

New Features

• PMM can now connect to MySQL instances by specifying a UNIX socket. This can be done with a new --socket option of the pmm-admin add mysql command. (Note: Updates to both PMM Client and PMM Server were done to allow UNIX socket connections.)
• Amazon RDS instance metrics can now be independently enabled/disabled for Basic and/or Enhanced metrics.

Improvements

• PMM Server Grafana plugins can now be updated on the command line with the grafana-cli command-line utility.
• Three Grafana plugins were updated to the latest versions: vertamedia-clickhouse-datasource to 1.9.5, grafana-polystat-panel to 1.1.0, and grafana-piechart-panel to 1.4.0.

Bugs Fixed

• PMM dashboards were failing when presenting data from more than 100 monitored instances (error message proxy error: context canceled).
• Empty charts were being shown in some Node Temperature dashboards.
• Sorting data by Query Time was not working properly in Query Analytics.
• The force option (--force) in pmm-admin config was not always working.

Download Percona Monitoring and Management 2.5.0

Percona Toolkit 3.2.0

On April 24, 2020, Percona Toolkit 3.2.0 was released. It 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 and MongoDB server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually – freeing your DBAs for work that helps you achieve your business goals. Percona Toolkit supports Percona Server for MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server for MongoDB, and MongoDB. A full list of improvements and bug fixes in v3.2.0 is available on the release notes page.

Download Percona Toolkit 3.2.0

 

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, MariaDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and other open source databases in on-premises and cloud environments.

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by David Quilty via Percona Database Performance Blog