It’s release roundup time again here at Percona!
It’s release roundup time again here at Percona!Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive.
Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software. It offers highlights and critical information, as well as links to the full release notes and direct links to the software or service itself to download.
Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since August 16, 2021. Take a look!
Percona Distribution for MongoDB 4.4.8
Percona Distribution for MongoDB 4.4.8 was released on August 16, 2021. It is a freely available MongoDB database alternative, giving you a single solution that combines enterprise components from the open source community, designed and tested to work together. Percona Distribution for MongoDB includes Percona Server for MongoDB and Percona Backup for MongoDB, enabling you to run and operate your MongoDB efficiently with the data being consistently backed up.
Download Percona Distribution for MongoDB 4.4.8
Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.2-1 (RC)
We are pleased to announce the release candidate of Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.2-1 (RC) on August 16, 2021. It is an enhanced, source-available, and highly scalable database that is a fully compatible, drop-in replacement for MongoDB 5.0.2 Community Edition and includes all features of MongoDB 5.0.2 Community Edition, fully supporting MongoDB 5.0.2 Community Edition protocols and drivers, requiring no changes to MongoDB applications or code.
Note: With a lot of new features and modifications introduced, we recommend using this release candidate in testing environments only
Download Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.2-1 (RC)
Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4.8-9
On August 16, 2021, Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4.8-9 was released. It’s a fully compatible, drop-in replacement for MongoDB 4.4.8 Community Edition, supporting MongoDB 4.4.8 protocols and drivers. Along with some bug fixes, there are a few improvements in this release, including the ability to view the status of hot backup using the mongo shell and the removal of excessive log messages and improved error messages for various backup cases.
Download Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4.8-9
Percona Backup for MongoDB 1.6.0
On August 16, 2021, we released Percona Backup for MongoDB 1.6.0, a distributed, low-impact solution for consistent backups of MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets. This is a tool for creating consistent backups across a MongoDB sharded cluster (or a single replica set), and for restoring those backups to a specific point in time.
Release highlights include:
- Support for Percona Server for MongoDB and MongoDB Community 5.0
- Point-in-time recovery enhancements: ability to restore from any previous snapshot and configurable span of oplog events
- JSON output for PBM commands to simplify interfacing PBM with applications
Download Percona Backup for MongoDB 1.6.0
Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.35-38
August 18, 2021, saw the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.35-38, a free, fully compatible, enhanced, and open source drop-in replacement for any MySQL database. It includes all the features and bug fixes available in MySQL 5.7.35 Community Edition in addition to enterprise-grade features developed by Percona.
Download Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.35-38
That’s it for this roundup, and be sure to follow us on Twitter to stay up-to-date on the most recent releases! Percona is a leader in providing best-of-breed enterprise-class support, consulting, managed services, training, and software for MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and other open source databases in on-premises and cloud environments.
