by Patrick Birch | Nov 8, 2023 | MySQL, Percona Software
With the release of Percona XtraBackup 8.0.34-39, Percona XtraBackup (PXB) allows a backup on server version 8.0.35 and higher. We have removed the server version check because the MySQL 8.0 series has transitioned to bug fixes.A feature change in the MySQL 8.0... by Patrick Birch | Mar 23, 2021 | MySQL, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
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... by Patrick Birch | Feb 16, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
MySQL 5.6.51 is the last release of the MySQL 5.6 series. Oracle will no longer provide updates or security fixes for this version.Following Percona’s Release Lifecycle policies, the Percona Server for MySQL 5.6 series has reached End of Life (EOL) as well, and... by Patrick Birch | Jan 27, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona XtraBackup 8.0.23 enables the “lock-ddl” option by default to ensure any DDL events do not corrupt the backups. Any DML events continue to occur, and only DDL events are blocked.A DDL lock protects the definition of tables and views. With the... by Patrick Birch | Aug 20, 2019 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.45-86.1 on August 20, 2019. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. You can also run Docker containers from the images in the 5.6.45, and... by Patrick Birch | Aug 15, 2019 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.16-7 on August 15, 2019 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).This release is based on MySQL 8.0.16. It includes all bug fixes in these releases. Percona Server... by Patrick Birch | May 3, 2019 | MongoDB, Percona Live, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6.12-3.2 on May 3, 2019. Download the latest version from the Percona website or the Percona software repositories.Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced, open source, and highly-scalable...