Percona Monitoring and Management 2.41.1, Percona Distribution for MongoDB 7.0.5: Release Roundup February 5, 2024

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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, critical information, 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 22, 2024. Take a look.

Percona Monitoring and Management 2.41.1

Percona Monitoring and Management 2.41.1 was released on February 2, 2024.  It’s an open source database monitoring, management, and observability solution for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. Release highlights include improved support for Arbiter nodes, a new metric for sharded MongoDB insights, and a new experimental MongoDB Instance Summary dashboard, along with various bug fixes and improvements.

Download Percona Monitoring and Management 2.41.1

Percona Distribution for MongoDB 7.0.5

On January 23, 2024, we released Percona Distribution for MongoDB 7.0.5. It is a freely available MongoDB database alternative, giving you a single solution that combines enterprise components from the open source community, designed and tested to work together.  Percona Distribution for MongoDB includes the following components: Percona Server for MongoDB and Percona Backup for MongoDB.

Release highlights include:

• Removed size storer entries upon collection drop
• Explicitly stated that the missing w field from write concern object will be filled with default write concern value
• Fixed infinite loop in lockstep $or plan enumeration
• Investigated a solution to avoid a Full Time Diagnostic Data Capture (FTDC) mechanism to stall during checkpoint

Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.3.1 improvements are the following:

• Support for Percona Server for MongoDB 7.0.x
• The ability to define custom endpoints when using Microsoft Azure Blob Storage for backups
• Improved PBM Docker image to allow making physical backups with the shared mongodb data volume
• Updated Golang libraries that include fixes for the security vulnerability CVE-2023-39325.

Download Percona Distribution for MongoDB 7.0.5

Percona Server for MongoDB 7.0.5-3

Percona Server for MongoDB 7.0.5-3 was released on January 23, 2024. It is an enhanced, source-available, and highly-scalable database that is a fully-compatible, drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition 7.0.5. Improvements and bug fixes, provided by MongoDB and included in Percona Server for MongoDB are the following:

• Removed size storer entries upon collection drop
• Explicitly stated that the missing w field from write concern object will be filled with default write concern value
• Fixed infinite loop in lockstep $or plan enumeration
• Investigated a solution to avoid a Full Time Diagnostic Data Capture (FTDC) mechanism to stall during checkpoint

Download Percona Server for MongoDB 7.0.5-3

Percona Distribution for MongoDB 5.0.24

On February 1, 2024, Percona Distribution for MongoDB 5.0.24 was released. Release highlights include bug fixes and improvements provided by MongoDB and included in Percona Server for MongoDB are the following:

• Improved shard key index error messages by adding detailed information about an invalid index.
• Fixed the issue with data and ShardVersion mismatch on sharded multi-document transactions by exposing the maxValidAfter timestamp alongside the shardVersion
• Fixed the issue with infinite loop during plan enumeration triggered by the $or queries

Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.3.1 enhancements include the following:

• Support for Percona Server for MongoDB 7.0.x
• The ability to define custom endpoints when using Microsoft Azure Blob Storage for backups
• Improved PBM Docker image to allow making physical backups with the shared mongodb data volume
• Updated Golang libraries that include fixes for the security vulnerability CVE-2023-39325.

Download Percona Distribution for MongoDB 5.0.24

Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.24-21

Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.24-21 was released on February 1, 2024. The bug fixes, provided by MongoDB and included in Percona Server for MongoDB, are the following:

• Improved shard key index error messages by adding detailed information about an invalid index.
• Fixed the issue with data and ShardVersion mismatch on sharded multi-document transactions by exposing the maxValidAfter timestamp alongside the shardVersion
• Fixed the issue with infinite loop during plan enumeration triggered by the $or queries

Download Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.24-21

Updates to the releases of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 12.17 and 11.22

Updates to the releases of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 12.17 and 11.22 came out on January 22, 2024. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is a solution with the collection of tools from PostgreSQL community that are tested to work together and serve to assist you in deploying and managing PostgreSQL.

Please find the release notes following the links below:

• 12.17: https://docs.percona.com/postgresql/12/release-notes-v12.17.upd.html
• 11.22: https://docs.percona.com/postgresql/11/release-notes-v11.22.upd.html

Download the updates to the releases of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 12.17 and 11.22

Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 2.3.1

Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 2.3.1 was released on January 24, 2024. Percona Operator for PostgreSQL is powerful open source software that automates the full cycle of cloud-native PostgreSQL database operations on Kubernetes.

This release provides a number of bug fixes, including fixes for the following vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL, pgBackRest, and pgBouncer images used by the Operator:

• OpenSSH could cause remote code execution by ssh-agent if a user establishes an SSH connection to a compromised or malicious SSH server and has agent forwarding enabled (CVE-2023-38408). This vulnerability affects pgBackRest and PostgreSQL images.
• The c-ares library could cause a Denial of Service with 0-byte UDP payload (CVE-2023-32067). This vulnerability affects pgBouncer image.

Both Operator 1.x (including version 1.5.0) and Operator 2.x (including version 2.3.0) are affected. The 2.x versions upgrade to 2.3.1 is recommended to resolve these issues.

Download Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 2.3.1

Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 1.5.1

Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 1.5.1 was released on January 29, 2024. This release provides fixes for the following vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL, pgBackRest, and pgBouncer images used by the Operator:

• OpenSSH could cause remote code execution by ssh-agent if a user establishes an SSH connection to a compromised or malicious SSH server and has agent forwarding enabled (CVE-2023-38408). This vulnerability affects pgBackRest and PostgreSQL images.
• The c-ares library could cause a Denial of Service with 0-byte UDP payload (CVE-2023-32067). This vulnerability affects pgBouncer image.

Users of the Operator version 1.x are recommended to upgrade to 1.5.1 to resolve these issues.

Download Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 1.5.1

Percona Server for MySQL 8.2

Percona Server for MySQL 8.2 was released on February 5, 2024. It includes all the features and bug fixes available in the MySQL 8.2 Community Edition in addition to enterprise-grade features developed by Percona.

This release merges the MySQL 8.2 code base. Withing this merge Percona introduces several significant changes:

• Removes remainders of Percona-specific encryption features (support for custom Percona 5.7 encrypted bilnog format.)
• Removes the deprecated rocksdb_strict_collation_check and rocksdb_strict_collation_exceptions RocksDB system variables.

Download Percona Server for MySQL 8.2

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