Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.16-7 Is Now Available

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 for MySQL 8.0.16-7 is now the current GA release in the 8.0 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free.

Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.16 includes all the features available in MySQL 8.0.16 Community Edition in addition to enterprise-grade features developed by Percona. For a list of highlighted features from both MySQL 8.0 and Percona Server for MySQL 8.0, please see the GA release announcement.

Encryption Features General Availability (GA)

• Temporary File Encryption (Temporary File Encryption)
• InnoDB Undo Tablespace Encryption
• InnoDB System Tablespace Encryption (InnoDB System Tablespace Encryption)
• default_table_encryption  =OFF/ON (General Tablespace Encryption)
• table_encryption_privilege_check =OFF/ON (Verifying the Encryption Settings)
• InnoDB redo log encryption (for master key encryption only) (Redo Log Encryption)
• InnoDB merge file encryption (Verifying the Encryption Setting)
• Percona Parallel doublewrite buffer encryption (InnoDB Tablespace Encryption)

Known Issues

• 5865: Percona Server 8.0.16 does not support encryption for the MyRocks storage engine. An attempt to move any table from InnoDB to MyRocks fails as MyRocks currently will see all InnoDB tables as being encrypted.

Bugs Fixed

• Parallel doublewrite buffer writes must crash the server on an I/O error occurs. Bug fixed #5678.
• After resetting the innodb_temp_tablespace_encrypt to OFF during runtime the subsequent file-per-table temporary tables continue to be encrypted. Bug fixed #5734.
• Setting the encryption to ON for the system tablespace generates an encryption key and encrypts system temporary tablespace pages. Resetting the encryption to OFF, all subsequent pages are written to the temporary tablespace without encryption. To allow any encrypted tables to be decrypted, the generated keys are not erased. Modifying they innodb_temp_tablespace_encrypt does not affect file-per-table temporary tables. This type of table is encrypted if ENCRYPTION='Y' is set during table creation. Bug fixed #5736.
• An instance started with the default values but setting the redo log to encrypt without specifying the keyring plugin parameters does not fail or throw an error. Bug fixed #5476.
• The rocksdb_large_prefix allows index key prefixes up to 3072 bytes. The default value is changed to TRUE to match the behavior of the innodb_large_prefix. Bug fixed #5655.
• On a server with two million or more tables, a shutdown may take a measurable length of time. Bug fixed #5639.
• The changed page tracking uses the LOG flag during read operations. The redo log encryption may attempt to decrypt pages with a specific bit set and fail. This failure generates error messages. A NO_ENCRYPTION flag lets the read process safely disable decryption errors in this case. Bug fixed #5541.
• If large pages are enabled on MySQL side, the maximum size for innodb_buffer_pool_chunk_size is effectively limited to 4GB. Bug fixed 5517 (upstream #94747 ).
• The TokuDB hot backup library continually dumps TRACE information to the server error log. The user cannot enable or disable the dump of this information. Bug fixed #4850.

Other bugs fixed: #5688,
#5723, #5695, #5749, #5752, #5610, #5689, #5645, #5734, #5772, #5753, #5129, #5102, #5681, #5686, #5681, #5310, #5713, #5007, #5102, #5129, #5130, #5149, #5696, #3845, #5149, #5581, #5652, #5662, #5697, #5775, #5668, #5752, #5782, #5767, #5669, #5753, #5696, #5733, #5803, #5804, #5820, #5827, #5835, #5724, #5767, #5782, #5794, #5796, #5746, and #5748.

Note:

If you are upgrading from 5.7 to 8.0, please ensure that you read the upgrade guide and the document Changed in Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.

Find the release notes for Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.16-7 in our online documentation. Report bugs in the Jira bug tracker.