Percona Server 5.6.25-73.1 is now available

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.25-73.1 on July 9, 2015. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.6.25, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.25-73.1 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. Percona Server is open-source and free – and this is the latest release of our enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL. Complete details of this release can be found in the 5.6.25-73.1 milestone on Launchpad.

New Features:

• TokuDB storage engine package has been updated to version 7.5.8

New TokuDB Features:

• Exposed ft-index fanout as TokuDB option tokudb_fanout, (default=16 range=2-16384).
• Tokuftdump can now provide a summary info with new --summary option.
• Fanout has been serialized in the ft-header and ft_header.fanout value has been exposed in tokuftdump.
• New checkpoint status variables have been implemented:

• CP_END_TIME – checkpoint end time, time spend in checkpoint end operation in seconds,
• CP_LONG_END_COUNT – long checkpoint end count, count of end_checkpoint operations that exceeded 1 minute,
• CP_LONG_END_TIME – long checkpoint end time, total time of long checkpoints in seconds.

• “Engine” status variables are now visible as “GLOBAL” status variables.

TokuDB Bugs Fixed:

• Fixed assertion with big transaction in toku_txn_complete_txn.
• Fixed assertion that was caused when a transaction had rollback log nodes orphaned in the blocktable.
• Fixed ftcxx tests failures that were happening when it was run in parallel.
• Fixed multiple test failures for Debian/Ubuntu caused by assertion on setlocale().
• Status has been refactored to its own file/subsystem within ft-index code to make the it more accessible.

Release notes for Percona Server 5.6.25-73.1 are available in the online documentation. Please report any bugs on the launchpad bug tracker .