Percona Distribution for MySQL, New Features in Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster: Release Roundup August 3, 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 releases and updates that have come out since July 20, including Percona Distribution for MySQL 8.0.20, a single solution with the best and most critical enterprise components from the MySQL open source community, and Percona Backup for MongoDB 1.2.1, for making consistent backups of MongoDB sharded clusters.

 

Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster 1.5.0

On July 21, 2020, Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster 1.5.0 was released with many new features and improvements, as well as bug fixes. Some of the new features include automatic synchronization of MySQL users with ProxySQL, HAProxy Support, and fully automated minor version updates (Smart Update).

Download Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster 1.5.0

 

Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.20-11

Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.20-11 was also released on July 21, 2020. It includes all the features and bug fixes available in MySQL 8.0.20 Community Edition in addition to enterprise-grade features developed by Percona. As of 8.0.20-11, the Percona Parallel Doublewrite buffer implementation has been removed and has been replaced with the Oracle MySQL implementation.

Download Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.20-11

 

Percona Distribution for MySQL 8.0.20

Our third release on July 21, 2020, was Percona Distribution for MySQL 8.0.20. It is a single solution with the best and most critical enterprise components from the MySQL open source community, designed and tested to work together, and provides two deployment variants: one is based on Percona Server for MySQL and another one is based on Percona XtraDB Cluster.

Download Percona Distribution for MySQL 8.0.20

 

Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.49-89.0

July 27, 2020, we released Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.49-89.0, which includes all the features and bug fixes available in MySQL 5.6.49 Community Edition in addition to enterprise-grade features developed by Percona. In this version, several bugs were fixed, including when Optimizer was not picking the best execution plan for Primary Key lookup and an incorrect result when constant equality expression is used in LEFT JOIN condition

Download Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.49-89.0

 

Percona Backup for MongoDB 1.2.1

July 27, 2020, also saw the release of Percona Backup for MongoDB 1.2.1, a distributed, low-impact solution for consistent backups of MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets. In this version, a “pbm-speed-test” binary for debian packages was included.

Download Percona Backup for MongoDB 1.2.1

 

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, 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