Announcing Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.10-60.2

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.10-60.2 on March 14, 2013.  (Downloads are available here and from the experimental Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.6.10, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.10-60.2 is the third ALPHA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can be found in the 5.6.10-60.2 milestone at Launchpad.

New Features:

• Ported the Thread Pool patch from MariaDB. This feature enables the MySQL server to keep the top performance even with the increased number of client connections.
• Expanded Fast Index Creation has been ported from Percona Server for MySQL 5.5
• Handle Corrupted Tables feature has been ported from Percona Server for MySQL 5.5

Bugs Fixed:

• Fixed the upstream #68116 that caused the MySQL server to crash with assertion error when InnoDB monitor with verbose lock info was used under heavy load. This bug is affecting only -debug builds. Bug fixed #1100178 (Laurynas Biveinis).