Announcing Percona Server 5.5.28-29.2

December 8, 2012

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Hrvoje Matijakovic

MySQL

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Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.28-29.2 on December 7th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).

Based on MySQL 5.5.28, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.28-29.2 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can be found in the 5.5.28-29.2 milestone at Launchpad.

New Features:

Multiple bitmap file support for XtraDB changed page tracking has been implemented.

Percona Server now has an option to build the binary tarball with enabled debugging. New flag --debug has been added to the build script, that will create a build with the debug-enabled binaries. New binaries will have -debug appended in case it is a debug build, ie. mysqld-debug.

HandlerSocket has been updated to version 1.1.0

innochecksum has been extended with an option to read file format information from a given InnoDB data file. As only the first page needs to be read to detect the format/version information, it can also be used on a running server. This information can be useful when doing the Expand Table Import.

Support for Fake Changes has been improved by fetching the sibling pages.

Fast InnoDB Checksum feature has now been deprecated.

Bugs Fixed:

innodb_fake_changes didn’t handle duplicate keys on REPLACE. In some cases this could cause infinite loop. Bug fixed #898306 (Mark Callaghan, Laurynas Biveinis).

Fixed the package dependencies for CentOS 6, that caused conflicts during the install. Bug fixed #908620 (Ignacio Nin).

innodb_fake_changes would allocate too many extents on UPDATE. In some cases this could cause infinite loop. Bug fixed #917942 (Mark Callaghan, Laurynas Biveinis).

Fixed the upstream bug #67737. mysqldump test would fail due to mixing STDOUT and STDERR. Bug fixed #959198 (Stewart Smith).

Although fake change transactions downgrade the requested exclusive (X) row locks to shared (S) locks, these S locks prevent X locks from being taken and block the real changes. This fix introduces a new option innodb_locking_fake_changes which, when set to FALSE, makes fake transactions not to take any row locks. Bug fixed #1064326 (Mark Callaghan, Laurynas Biveinis).

Fake changes were increasing the changed row and userstat counters. Bug fixed #1064333 (Laurynas Biveinis).

Log tracking was initialized too late during the InnoDB startup. Bug fixed #1076892 (Laurynas Biveinis).

Debuginfo Debian packages have been added for Percona Server. Bugs fixed #711062 and #1043873 (Ignacio Nin).

There is no need to scan buffer pool for AHI entries after the B-trees for the tablespace have been dropped, as that will already clean them. Bug fixed #1076215 (Laurynas Biveinis).