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 and critical information, as well as 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 14, 2022. Take a look!
Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 15.1
Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 15.1 was released on November 21, 2022. It is a solution with the collection of tools from 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.
Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 15.1
Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 14.6
Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 14.6 was released on November 23, 2022. This release of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is based on PostgreSQL 14.6. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL now includes the meta-packages that simplify its installation. The percona-ppg-server meta-package installs PostgreSQL and the extensions, while percona-ppg-server-ha package installs high-availability components that are recommended by Percona.
Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 14.6
Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 13.9
On November 24, 2022, Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 13.9 was released. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is based on PostgreSQL 13.9 and now includes the meta-packages that simplify its installation. The percona-ppg-server meta-package installs PostgreSQL and the extensions, while percona-ppg-server-ha package installs high-availability components that are recommended by Percona.
Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 13.9
Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.30-22
Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.30-22 was released on November 21, 2022. It includes all the features and bug fixes available in the MySQL 8.0.30 Community Edition in addition to enterprise-grade features developed by Percona. Percona Server for MySQL is a free, fully compatible, enhanced, and open source drop-in replacement for any MySQL database. It provides superior performance, scalability, and instrumentation. Please be sure to check out all the release highlights and new features.
Download Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.30-22
Percona XtraBackup 8.0.30-23
Released on November 14, 2022, Percona XtraBackup 8.0.30-23 enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries. Percona XtraBackup is ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, Percona XtraBackup drives down backup costs while providing unique features for MySQL backups.
Along with bug fixes, the following features and improvements introduced in Percona XtraBackup 8.0.30-23 are available only in tech preview:
- Percona XtraBackup adds support for
Zstandard (ZSTD)compression algorithm.ZSTDis a fast lossless compression algorithm, targeting real-time compression scenarios at zlib-level and better compression ratios. - Percona XtraBackup implements the
Smart memory estimationfeature to compute the memory required to--preparea backup. Percona XtraBackup has extended the crash recovery logic to extract the formula used to allocate memory. Now, in the backup phase, while copying redo log entries, Percona XtraBackup computes the required memory for--prepare.
Download Percona XtraBackup 8.0.30-23
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