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 January 3, 2022. Take a look!
Percona Distribution for MySQL (PXC-Based Variant) 8.0.26
Percona Distribution for MySQL (PXC-based variant) 8.0.26 was released on January 17, 2022. 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. This release is focused on the Percona XtraDB Cluster-based deployment variant, version 8.0.26-16.1.
The following are some of the notable fixes for MySQL 8.0.26, provided by Oracle, and included:
The TLSv1 and TLSv1.1 connection protocols are deprecated.
Identifiers with specific terms, such as “master” or “slave” are deprecated and replaced. See the Functionality Added or Changed section in the 8.0.26 Release Notes for a list of updated identifiers.
When using semisynchronous replication, either the old version or the new version of system variables and status variables are available. You cannot have both versions installed on an instance. Be aware, the new system variables are available when you use the new version, but the old values are not. The old system variables are available when you use the old version, but the new ones are not.
Download Percona Distribution for MySQL (PXC-based variant) 8.0.26
Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0.26-16.1
On January 17, 20202, Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0.26-16.1 was released. 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. While there are a number of the notable fixes for MySQL 8.0.26, provided by Oracle, included in this release, there are also known unfixed issues that you should be aware of. Please read the release notes for further information.
Download Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0.26-16.1
Percona Distribution for MongoDB 4.2.18
On January 20, 2022, we released Percona Distribution for MongoDB 4.2.18. It is a collection of solutions to run and operate your MongoDB efficiently with the data being consistently backed up. Percona Distribution for MongoDB includes Percona Server for MongoDB, a fully compatible open source, drop-in replacement for MongoDB, and Percona Backup for MongoDB. Release highlights include these bug fixes provided by MongoDB:
- Added the SetAllowMigrationsCommand command that prevents the balancer to migrate chunks on shards.
- Added a flag for the config server that prevents new migrations to start and ongoing migrations to commit.
- Improved the duplicate key handler behavior if the exact key already exists in the table. This fixes availability loss during the index build that was caused by checking many false duplicates.
Download Percona Distribution for MongoDB 4.2.18
Percona Server for MongoDB 4.2.18-18
Percona Server for MongoDB 4.2.18-18 was released on January 20, 2022. It is an enhanced, source-available, and highly-scalable database that is a fully-compatible, drop-in replacement for MongoDB 4.2.18 Community Edition, supporting MongoDB 4.2.18 protocols and drivers. Bug fixes and improvements in this release, provided by MongoDB, are the following:
- Added the SetAllowMigrationsCommand command that prevents the balancer to migrate chunks on shards.
- Added a flag for the config server that prevents new migrations to start and ongoing migrations to commit.
- Skip running duplicate key handler if the exact key already exists in the table. This fixes availability loss during the index build that was caused by checking many false duplicates.
- Added periodic clean-up of logical sessions cache on arbiters.
Download Percona Server for MongoDB 4.2.18-18
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.
