Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.57-38.9 on August 23, 2017. Based on MySQL 5.5.57, including all of its bug fixes, Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.57-38.9 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series.
Percona Server for MySQL is open-source and free. You can find release details in the 5.5.57-38.9 milestone on Launchpad. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.
NOTE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (including CentOS 5 and other derivatives), Ubuntu 12.04 and older versions are no longer supported by Percona software. The reason for this is that these platforms reached the end of life, will not receive updates and are not recommended for use in production.
New Features
- #1702903: Added support of OpenSSL 1.1.
Platform Support
- Added support and packages for Debian 9 (stretch). Covers only the
amd64architecture. - Stopped providing packages for RHEL 5 (CentOS 5) and Ubuntu 12.04.
Bugs Fixed
- #1622985: Downgraded diagnostic severity from warning to normal note for successful doublewrite buffer recovery.
- #1661488: Fixed crash of debug server build when two clients connected, one of them enabled
userstatand ran eitherFLUSH CLIENT_STATISTICSorFLUSH USER_STATISTICS, and then both clients exited. - #1673656: Added support for wildcards and Subject Alternative Names (SAN) in SSL certificates for
--ssl-verify-server-cert. For more information, see the compatibility matrix at the end of this post. - #1705729: Fixed the
postinstscript to correctly locate thedatadir. - #1709834: Fixed the
mysqld_safescript to correctly locate thebasedir. - Minor fixes: #1160986, #1684601, #1689998, #1690012.
Compatibility Matrix
| Feature | YaSSL | OpenSSL < 1.0.2 | OpenSSL >= 1.0.2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ‘commonName’ validation | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SAN validation | No | Yes | Yes |
| Wildcards support | No | No | Yes |
Find the release notes for Percona Server 5.5.57-38.9 in our online documentation. Report bugs on the launchpad bug tracker.
About the Author
Alexey ZhebelAlexey works for Percona as a Technical Writer responsible for open source software documentation. He joined the company in March 2015 with almost 8 years of prior experience in writing and managing technical documentation. Before joining Percona, Alexey worked for Oracle on Java SE and Java ME documentation. And before that his writing experience revolved around virtualization and information security software. Alexey has a degree in Electrical Engineering and a supplementary qualification in translation theory (Russian-English). He lives in Saint Petersburg, Russia with his wife and son. He spends his free time practicing and playing ultimate frisbee in a local team.
percona-server-5.5.57-38.9/client/mysql.cc:2717:37: error: invalid conversion from ‘char’ to ‘char*’ [-fpermissive]
field_names[i][num_fields*2]= ‘\0’;
gcc 7.2 :/