Percona Server 5.6.34-79.1 is now available

Percona announces the release of Percona Server 5.6.34-79.1 on November 28, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.6.34, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.34-79.1 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. Percona Server is open-source and free – this is the latest release of our enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL. Complete details of this release are available in the 5.6.34-79.1 milestone on Launchpad.

Deprecated features:

• Metrics for scalability measurement feature is now deprecated. Users who have installed this plugin but are not using its capability are advised to uninstall the plugin due to known crashing bugs.

Bugs fixed:

• When a stored routine would call an administrative command such as OPTIMIZE TABLE, ANALYZE TABLE, ALTER TABLE, CREATE/DROP INDEX, etc. the effective value of log_slow_sp_statements was overwritten by the value of log_slow_admin_statements. Bug fixed #719368.
• Thread Pool thread limit reached and failed to create thread messages are now printed on the first occurrence as well. Bug fixed #1636500.
• INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_STATISTICS and INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INDEX_STATISTICS tables were not correctly updated for TokuDB. Bug fixed #1629448.

Other bugs fixed: #1633061, #1633430, and #1635184.

Release notes for Percona Server 5.6.34-79.1 are available in the online documentation. Please report any bugs on the launchpad bug tracker.