Jul 08, 2024 |
Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Percona Software
As announced in Percona’s Important Update, effective July 1st, the percona/original and tools repositories will no longer be updated. This means that users need to check their systems and ensure that the necessary repositories are enabled to maintain the security and reliability of their installations. Challenges of manual checking When managing a complex system, ensuring […]
Jun 11, 2024 |
Percona Announcements, Percona Software
We’re announcing an upcoming update to our repository management system to ensure you receive the most timely updates and benefit from improved efficiency. Effective July 1st, 2024, we’ll be streamlining our repository structure on repo.percona.com. We’ll no longer be updating the original/percona and tools repositories, which include packages for EOL versions of Percona Server for […]
Jun 06, 2024 |
Percona Announcements, Percona Software
The End-of-Support date for CentOS 7 and Debian 10 is coming soon. According to their respective release life cycles, the EOL date for both systems is June 30th, 2024. This announcement has some implications for support for Percona software running on these operating systems. So, we will no longer produce new packages and binary builds […]
May 20, 2024 |
Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Percona Software, Valkey
Valkey 7.2.5 has been officially released as the first General Availability (GA) version, a significant milestone for the project. It is now available in multiple formats: as an official Docker container, through Fedora/EPEL yum repositories, and as binary tarballs for both Ubuntu Bionic and Ubuntu Focal. This availability ensures straightforward installation on rpm-based systems, though […]
Aug 11, 2022 |
MySQL, Percona Software
Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) is a database clustering solution for MySQL. It ensures high availability, prevents downtime and data loss, and provides linear scalability for a growing environment. Lately, the number of questions about how to build Percona software has increased. More and more people try to add their own patches, add some modifications, and […]
Apr 15, 2021 |
Open Source, Percona Announcements, Percona Services
The End Of Support date for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is coming soon. According to the Ubuntu Release Life Cycle, it will be at the end of April 2021. With this announcement comes some implications to support for Percona software running on these operating systems. So we will no longer be producing new packages and binary […]
Mar 10, 2021 |
Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Lately, the number of questions about how to build Percona software has been increased. More and more people try to add their own patches, add some modifications, and build software by themselves. But this raises the question of how to do this in the same way as Percona does, as sometimes the compiler flag can […]
Dec 15, 2020 |
Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Percona Software
How do you install an application? Nowadays a lot of companies want to use the latest technology and more and more of them are moving infrastructure to clouds. And in order to simplify maintenance, they are using Kubernetes. But still, the vast majority use the bare metal infrastructure with Linux on board, and we will […]
Jan 02, 2020 |
MySQL, Open Source
For Linux, the most common way to distribute software is binary packages in the rpm or deb format. Most packages are included in the official distribution repositories or 3rd party software repositories. Nevertheless, there are some cases where you need to install just a few standalone packages. You might be able to use the […]
Jan 20, 2017 |
Insight for Developers, MySQL
In this blog, we’ll look at how to manually build Percona Server for MySQL RPM packages. Several customers and other people from the open source community have asked us how they could make their own Percona Server for MySQL RPM binaries from scratch. This request is often made by companies that want to add custom patches […]