Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:12:55 +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/percona-stands-firmly-on-the-side-of-open-source/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-stands-firmly-on-the-side-of-open-source/#respond Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:12:55 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=95864 Percona is proud to formally state our support for the Valkey project and its community.  We will soon offer commercial support for the open source Redis alternative, Valkey.The world of open source is no stranger to controversy. From its earliest beginnings, the open source movement stirred many a debate and rustled more than its fair […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-stands-firmly-on-the-side-of-open-source/feed/ 0 95864 https://www.percona.com/blog/transform-cloud-native-database-management-with-percona-everest-now-in-beta/ https://www.percona.com/blog/transform-cloud-native-database-management-with-percona-everest-now-in-beta/#respond Thu, 29 Feb 2024 19:39:11 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=94929 Join our Beta program to have a say in the development of Percona Everest and help us drive its progress!We are excited to unveil the Beta release of Percona Everest, an innovative open source cloud-native database platform built upon the robust Percona Operators.With Percona Everest, you can enjoy DBaaS provisioning and management features without the […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/transform-cloud-native-database-management-with-percona-everest-now-in-beta/feed/ 0 94929 https://www.percona.com/blog/important-note-for-users-and-customers-using-the-physical-backup-feature-in-percona-backup-for-mongodb/ https://www.percona.com/blog/important-note-for-users-and-customers-using-the-physical-backup-feature-in-percona-backup-for-mongodb/#respond Mon, 10 Apr 2023 13:02:39 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=86828 Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) is an open source, distributed, and low-impact solution for consistent backups of MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets.With PBM v2.0.0, the ability to take physical backups, in addition to logical ones, has been made Generally Available. Physical backups were added since v1.7.0 as a technical preview.In March 2023, we discovered […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/important-note-for-users-and-customers-using-the-physical-backup-feature-in-percona-backup-for-mongodb/feed/ 0 86828 https://www.percona.com/blog/gearing-up-for-perconas-next-great-chapter/ https://www.percona.com/blog/gearing-up-for-perconas-next-great-chapter/#respond Mon, 10 Oct 2022 13:03:03 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=83112 At this point, we’ve already announced that Peter Zaitsev has assumed the role of Founder, while I have taken over as Chief Executive Officer at Percona.  While Peter will be stepping back in his managerial capacity within the Executive Management Team (EMT), he will continue to be a big part of Percona both internally and […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/gearing-up-for-perconas-next-great-chapter/feed/ 0 83112 https://www.percona.com/blog/i-am-taking-on-founder-role-ann-schlemmer-takes-over-as-percona-ceo/ https://www.percona.com/blog/i-am-taking-on-founder-role-ann-schlemmer-takes-over-as-percona-ceo/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2022 12:02:41 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=83107 I have decided to step down from the role of CEO at Percona and take on the Founder role.  Ann Schlemmer takes over as Percona CEO.I believe at this point this is the right step for the Company and myself personally. When – together with Vadim – we started Percona more than 16 years ago, […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/i-am-taking-on-founder-role-ann-schlemmer-takes-over-as-percona-ceo/feed/ 3 83107 https://www.percona.com/blog/pmm-v2-31-enhanced-alerting-user-friendly-main-menu-prometheus-query-builder-podman-ga-and-more/ https://www.percona.com/blog/pmm-v2-31-enhanced-alerting-user-friendly-main-menu-prometheus-query-builder-podman-ga-and-more/#respond Wed, 28 Sep 2022 11:57:27 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=82866 Autumn brought new cool features and improvements to Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) in V2.31. Enhanced user experience with the updated main menu, Alerting, and better PostgreSQL autovacuum observability with the new Vacuum dashboard are the major themes that we focused on in this release. Check out our Release Note of 2.31 for the full […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/pmm-v2-31-enhanced-alerting-user-friendly-main-menu-prometheus-query-builder-podman-ga-and-more/feed/ 0 82866 https://www.percona.com/blog/spring-cleaning-discontinuing-rhel-6-centos-6-glibc-2-12-and-32-bit-binary-builds-of-percona-software/ https://www.percona.com/blog/spring-cleaning-discontinuing-rhel-6-centos-6-glibc-2-12-and-32-bit-binary-builds-of-percona-software/#respond Tue, 10 May 2022 12:32:14 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=80939 As you are probably aware, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6 or EL 6 in short) officially reached “End of Life” (EOL) on 2020-11-30 and is now in the so-called Extended Life Phase, which basically means that Red Hat will no longer provide bug fixes or security fixes.Even though EL 6 and its compatible […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/spring-cleaning-discontinuing-rhel-6-centos-6-glibc-2-12-and-32-bit-binary-builds-of-percona-software/feed/ 0 80939 https://www.percona.com/blog/perconas-stance-on-ukraine/ https://www.percona.com/blog/perconas-stance-on-ukraine/#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2022 14:04:54 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=80317 It both saddens and angers me that I need to write this post. Percona supports the people of Ukraine and condemns the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation regime. The needless loss of life, destruction of property, and displacement of millions of people, as well as separation of families, is horrifying and simply wrong. […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/perconas-stance-on-ukraine/feed/ 2 80317 https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-support-team-new-year-greetings/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-support-team-new-year-greetings/#respond Fri, 31 Dec 2021 16:06:53 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=79607 In Percona Support we spend a few hours per week doing Labs: short collective projects, not directly related to the tickets.One of our last labs was about to get ready for the winter holiday season which means preparing the tree and decorating it. To do it we used our favorite tools: MySQL, and ASCII art […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-support-team-new-year-greetings/feed/ 0 79607 https://www.percona.com/blog/log4jshell-vulnerability-update/ https://www.percona.com/blog/log4jshell-vulnerability-update/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2021 13:31:13 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=79327 Percona Security has been tracking an evolving issue over the weekend and into the beginning of this week.The Log4J vulnerability, also sometimes referred to as Log4JShell, can be exploited to allow for the complete takeover of the target to run any arbitrary code.This affects versions of log4j 2.0-beta9 through 2.14.1 – the current advisory is […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/log4jshell-vulnerability-update/feed/ 2 79327 https://www.percona.com/blog/a-new-way-to-experience-databases-the-percona-platform/ https://www.percona.com/blog/a-new-way-to-experience-databases-the-percona-platform/#respond Wed, 08 Dec 2021 16:23:31 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=79258 We are thrilled to announce the Percona Platform, which brings together database distributions, support expertise, services, management, and automated insights into a single product. Building on our expertise with databases including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, the new Percona Platform will simplify how you can monitor, manage, and optimize your database instances across any infrastructure. In […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/a-new-way-to-experience-databases-the-percona-platform/feed/ 0 79258 https://www.percona.com/blog/community-meetup-schedule-till-the-end-of-the-year/ https://www.percona.com/blog/community-meetup-schedule-till-the-end-of-the-year/#respond Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:44:49 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=78961 This fall we started to run live-streamed online meetups accompanied by a live chat with the audience. Every week we invite experts for a real-time talk and devote this meeting to a specific database.But the holiday season is coming soon! So, we slightly changed the meetup schedule and would like to announce it. Here are […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/community-meetup-schedule-till-the-end-of-the-year/feed/ 0 78961 https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-is-a-finalist-for-best-use-of-open-source-technologies-in-2021/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-is-a-finalist-for-best-use-of-open-source-technologies-in-2021/#respond Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:10:38 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=78742 Percona has been named a finalist in the Computing Technology Product Awards for Best Use of Open Source Technologies. If you’re a customer, partner, or just a fan of Percona and what we stand for, we’d love your vote.With Great Power…You know the phrase. We’re leaving it to you and your peers in the tech […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-is-a-finalist-for-best-use-of-open-source-technologies-in-2021/feed/ 0 78742 https://www.percona.com/blog/tokudb-storage-engine-will-be-disabled-by-default-in-percona-server-for-mysql-8-0-26/ https://www.percona.com/blog/tokudb-storage-engine-will-be-disabled-by-default-in-percona-server-for-mysql-8-0-26/#respond Wed, 06 Oct 2021 11:46:10 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=78417 As we’ve communicated in our blog post in May, the TokuDB Storage Engine has been marked as “deprecated” in Percona Server for MySQL 8.0. It will be removed in a future version (Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.28, expected to ship in Q1 2022).With the release of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.26, the storage engine will still […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/tokudb-storage-engine-will-be-disabled-by-default-in-percona-server-for-mysql-8-0-26/feed/ 0 78417 https://www.percona.com/blog/lessons-from-peter-zaitsev/ https://www.percona.com/blog/lessons-from-peter-zaitsev/#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2021 13:17:52 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=78381 Peter Zaitsev, known to all as Percona’s founder and CEO, asked me to pen a few reminisces as I retire.  How do I sum up 22 years in the MySQL world?  How do I even begin?  I best start with gratitude. I’ve had the amazing privilege of being on the inside of the leadership teams […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/lessons-from-peter-zaitsev/feed/ 17 78381 https://www.percona.com/blog/congratulating-marcelo-altmann-on-his-promotion-to-oracle-ace/ https://www.percona.com/blog/congratulating-marcelo-altmann-on-his-promotion-to-oracle-ace/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2021 12:07:46 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=77972 We’re excited to share that Marcelo Altmann from the Percona Server Engineering Team has just been promoted from Oracle ACE Associate to Oracle ACE.Congratulations!The Oracle ACE Program recognizes and rewards community members for their technical contributions to the Oracle community.Marcelo initially joined Percona as a senior support engineer in our global services organization, where he […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/congratulating-marcelo-altmann-on-his-promotion-to-oracle-ace/feed/ 2 77972 https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-server-for-mongodb-5-0-2-release-candidate-now-available/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-server-for-mongodb-5-0-2-release-candidate-now-available/#respond Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:37:52 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=77762 We’re happy to announce the first release candidate of Percona Server for MongoDB version 5.0.2 (PSMDB). It is now available for download from the Percona website and via the Percona Software Repositories.Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.2 is an enhanced, source-available, and highly scalable document-oriented database that is a fully compatible drop-in replacement for MongoDB 5.0.2 […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-server-for-mongodb-5-0-2-release-candidate-now-available/feed/ 0 77762 https://www.percona.com/blog/platform-end-of-support-announcement-for-ubuntu-16-04-lts/ Thu, 15 Apr 2021 18:46:12 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=75346 The End Of Support date for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is coming soon. According to the Ubuntu Release Life Cycle, it will be at the end of April 2021. With this announcement comes some implications to support for Percona software running on these operating systems.So we will no longer be producing new packages and binary builds […]]]> 75346 https://www.percona.com/blog/cve-2020-29488-changes-in-how-absolute-paths-are-handled-in-percona-xtrabackup-xbstream/ Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:09:05 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=74538 Due to CVE-2020-29488, Percona XtraBackup is modifying how xbstream handles absolute paths to prevent malicious file injections. Like the tar archiving utility, the new behavior removes the leading ‘/’ character and references to the parent directory.Fixes are available in Percona XtraBackup versions:>= 2.4.22>= 8.0.23-16.0For example, ../../../d1/../d2/h.txt will be saved in the stream with the relative […]]]> 74538 https://www.percona.com/blog/hoss-talks-foss-the-podcast-is-now-available/ Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:41:35 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=74571 Great news!  Percona’s Community-focused podcast, hosted by none other than the HOSS (Head of Open Source Software) himself (yeah, that is me), is now available on almost all podcast platforms.What? You didn’t know we had a podcast?We do, and we’ve had some great episodes since we started in January. In fact, we just published our […]]]> 74571