Thu, 11 Apr 2024 22:38:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.percona.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-percona-favicon-32x32.png 32 32 76301791 https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-4-4-eol-with-5-0-not-far-behind/ https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-4-4-eol-with-5-0-not-far-behind/#respond Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:52:44 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=95596 February 2024 marked the end of life (EOL) of MongoDB 4.4.Another year, another EOL, is a fitting summary. Time goes by fast, and looking from this perspective, 5.0 is one we will soon also say goodbye to, as this year, 5.0 is also going EOL in October.Why is MongoDB 4.4 EOL significant?In case you and […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-4-4-eol-with-5-0-not-far-behind/feed/ 0 95596 https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-backup-for-mongodb-2-4-0-new-user-driven-improvements/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-backup-for-mongodb-2-4-0-new-user-driven-improvements/#respond Tue, 05 Mar 2024 17:31:12 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=94984 Those memes that were super popular a couple of years ago show how you, your family, friends, and boss see your job vs. what you actually do. “Making sure we’re doing the right things” — that’s a one-sentence catchphrase I tell my relatives when asked what is Product Management all about.With a tool like Percona […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-backup-for-mongodb-2-4-0-new-user-driven-improvements/feed/ 0 94984 https://www.percona.com/blog/postgresql-11-will-soon-reach-end-of-life/ https://www.percona.com/blog/postgresql-11-will-soon-reach-end-of-life/#respond Wed, 08 Nov 2023 14:34:18 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=92091 According to the official PostgreSQL versioning policy page, the final PostgreSQL 11 release is expected by November 9, 2023. Since no new releases are planned by that date, PostgreSQL 11 has effectively reached its End of Life.We encourage our users and customers to adopt upgrade strategies in line with the PostgreSQL Community timelines. According to […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/postgresql-11-will-soon-reach-end-of-life/feed/ 0 92091 https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-server-for-mongodb-7-is-now-available/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-server-for-mongodb-7-is-now-available/#respond Tue, 10 Oct 2023 14:11:40 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=91573 Databases are different from a lot of software. For one, they often favor stability over innovation. This is not a general rule, but as databases are responsible for a core layer of any IT system – data storage and processing — they require reliability. This requirement does not always pair with the latest and greatest […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-server-for-mongodb-7-is-now-available/feed/ 0 91573 https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-distribution-for-postgresql-16-is-now-available/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-distribution-for-postgresql-16-is-now-available/#respond Tue, 19 Sep 2023 14:11:08 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=90984 PostgreSQL Community released PostgreSQL 16 on September 14, 2023.  In years past, we’ve released our Distribution for PostgreSQL a few months later.  We wanted to improve in this regard and establish a new release baseline. Improving quality while maintaining the same resilience towards QA was something we aimed for. It looks like we succeeded, and […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-distribution-for-postgresql-16-is-now-available/feed/ 0 90984 https://www.percona.com/blog/announcing-the-availability-of-percona-backup-for-mongodb-2-2-0/ https://www.percona.com/blog/announcing-the-availability-of-percona-backup-for-mongodb-2-2-0/#respond Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:15:21 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=89675 In the previous minor release, Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.1.0 (PBM) introduced a GA version of incremental physical backups, which can greatly impact both the recovery time and the cost of backup (considering storage and data transfer cost). Back then, we already knew that our customers needed to back up: More data Faster Using existing […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/announcing-the-availability-of-percona-backup-for-mongodb-2-2-0/feed/ 0 89675 https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-4-2-eol-implications/ https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-4-2-eol-implications/#comments Mon, 15 May 2023 14:45:57 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=88074 Enjoy it while it lasts, as everything has its end.It sounded a bit more cryptic than it was planned, but I hope that it gets the attention it needs, as it’s important to know that MongoDB 4.2 in April has reached its End of Life (EOL), and more versions are soon going to be decommissioned […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-4-2-eol-implications/feed/ 1 88074 https://www.percona.com/blog/add-more-security-to-your-percona-server-for-mongodb-with-aws-iam-integration/ https://www.percona.com/blog/add-more-security-to-your-percona-server-for-mongodb-with-aws-iam-integration/#respond Fri, 28 Apr 2023 14:19:20 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=87438 Did you notice that Percona Server for MongoDB 6.0.5-4 was released just a few days ago? This time around, it introduced improvements to the way we handle master key rotation for data at rest encryption as well as AWS IAM integration.One key to rule them all — improvements to master key rotationWith the improvements introduced […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/add-more-security-to-your-percona-server-for-mongodb-with-aws-iam-integration/feed/ 0 87438 https://www.percona.com/blog/run-percona-server-for-mongodb-on-your-arm-based-macbooks-and-more/ https://www.percona.com/blog/run-percona-server-for-mongodb-on-your-arm-based-macbooks-and-more/#respond Mon, 27 Feb 2023 14:08:24 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=85624 The transition to Apple Silicon (the M1, M2 ARM-based CPUs) has been great for macOS fans in many ways, but it’s added some friction when you want to run containers locally for testing or development. The good news is we’ve got you covered with ARM64 container images for Percona Server for MongoDB 6.While it’s possible […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/run-percona-server-for-mongodb-on-your-arm-based-macbooks-and-more/feed/ 0 85624 https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-server-for-mongodb-6-adds-support-for-red-hat-enterprise-linux-9/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-server-for-mongodb-6-adds-support-for-red-hat-enterprise-linux-9/#respond Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:44:56 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=85606 We’re pleased to announce that Percona Server for MongoDB 6.0.4 adds support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 and compatible Linux distributions.With the 6.0.4 release you can now run Percona Server for MongoDB 6 on RHEL 7, 8, and 9, as well as Debian 10 and 11, and Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, and 22.04 LTS.We […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-server-for-mongodb-6-adds-support-for-red-hat-enterprise-linux-9/feed/ 0 85606 https://www.percona.com/blog/end-of-life-notification-for-postgresql-10/ https://www.percona.com/blog/end-of-life-notification-for-postgresql-10/#respond Tue, 14 Feb 2023 14:30:29 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=85392 The final PostgreSQL 10 release was published on November 10, 2022, according to the PostgreSQL versioning policy page. Please remember that the final PostgreSQL 11 release is planned for November 9, 2023.Following Percona’s Release Lifecycle policies, we follow and recommend PostgreSQL community timelines. There won’t be any public builds available from both community and Percona […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/end-of-life-notification-for-postgresql-10/feed/ 0 85392 https://www.percona.com/blog/faster-cheaper-and-more-reliable-incremental-backups-for-mongodb/ https://www.percona.com/blog/faster-cheaper-and-more-reliable-incremental-backups-for-mongodb/#respond Wed, 11 Jan 2023 14:35:44 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=84597 MongoDB is a great database that provides outstanding high availability solutions out of the box. For most Database Administrators (DBAs) we talk with, though, the awesome safety features we came to appreciate MongoDB for, like automatic failover or data redundancy, are not enough.The thing we hear almost every time is that they still need good, […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/faster-cheaper-and-more-reliable-incremental-backups-for-mongodb/feed/ 0 84597 https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-server-for-mongodb-6-0-2-is-out-for-grabs/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-server-for-mongodb-6-0-2-is-out-for-grabs/#respond Fri, 04 Nov 2022 16:02:03 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=83491 Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) is a source available database server for MongoDB based on the same upstream code as MongoDB Community Edition. Percona, while committed to providing open source software to the Community in case of the MongoDB database server is limited with the SSPL license of the upstream code. With PSMDB, users receive […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-server-for-mongodb-6-0-2-is-out-for-grabs/feed/ 0 83491 https://www.percona.com/blog/milestone-release-for-percona-backup-for-mongodb-brings-physical-backups-to-the-mongodb-open-source-community/ https://www.percona.com/blog/milestone-release-for-percona-backup-for-mongodb-brings-physical-backups-to-the-mongodb-open-source-community/#respond Wed, 19 Oct 2022 17:24:29 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=83219 Although MongoDB has a very rigid high availability (HA) mechanism built in its core, automatic failover and data redundancy will not satisfy the security requirements of most enterprises. Not alone, at least. Understanding the needs of the MongoDB community, Percona offers Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) — a free to use and fully open source […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/milestone-release-for-percona-backup-for-mongodb-brings-physical-backups-to-the-mongodb-open-source-community/feed/ 0 83219 https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-6-0-should-you-upgrade-now/ https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-6-0-should-you-upgrade-now/#respond Wed, 21 Sep 2022 11:29:35 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=82795 MongoDB is a cross-platform, document-oriented NoSQL database. It has been developed as an answer to the growing need for easy-to-use yet very performant, scalable, and content-agnostic storage. MongoDB has been widely adopted by engineers across application development anywhere from banking to social media. Unfortunately, after MongoDB Inc.’s IPO in 2017, they chose an aggressive path […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-6-0-should-you-upgrade-now/feed/ 0 82795