Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.40-36.1 on October 7, 2014. Based on MySQL 5.5.40, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.40-36.1 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series.
Percona Server is open-source and free. Details of the release can be found in the 5.5.34-36.1 milestone on Launchpad. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.
Bugs Fixed:
- Audit Log Plugin would rotate the audit log in middle of an audit message. Bug fixed #1363370.
- Fixed a memory leak in Metrics for scalability measurement. Bug fixed #1334570.
- Fixed a memory leak if secure-file-priv option was used with no argument. Bug fixed #1334719.
Release notes for Percona Server 5.5.40-36.1 are available in our online documentation. Bugs can be reported on the launchpad bug tracker.
(Please also note that Percona Server 5.6 series is the latest General Availability series and current GA release is 5.6.21-69.0.)
