Aug 03, 2022 |
Database Trends, Open Source, Percona Software
After having been in long-term support (LTS) for the past two years, Debian 9 (“Stretch”) has now reached End of Life (EOL) on 2022-06-30. We generally align our OS platform end-of-life dates with the upstream platform vendor. We publish the platform end-of-life dates in advance on our website on the Percona Release Lifecycle Overview page. […]
May 10, 2022 |
MySQL, Open Source, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
As you are probably aware, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6 or EL 6 in short) officially reached “End of Life” (EOL) on 2020-11-30 and is now in the so-called Extended Life Phase, which basically means that Red Hat will no longer provide bug fixes or security fixes. Even though EL 6 and its […]
Oct 06, 2021 |
MySQL, Percona Announcements, Percona Software, Storage Engine
As we’ve communicated in our blog post in May, the TokuDB Storage Engine has been marked as “deprecated” in Percona Server for MySQL 8.0. It will be removed in a future version (Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.28, expected to ship in Q1 2022). With the release of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.26, the storage engine will […]
Sep 01, 2021 |
MySQL, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
We’re excited to share that Marcelo Altmann from the Percona Server Engineering Team has just been promoted from Oracle ACE Associate to Oracle ACE. Congratulations! The Oracle ACE Program recognizes and rewards community members for their technical contributions to the Oracle community. Marcelo initially joined Percona as a senior support engineer in our global services […]
Aug 17, 2021 |
MongoDB, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
Over the weekend, the Debian project announced the availability of their newest major distribution release, Debian 11 (code name “bullseye”). We’d like to congratulate the Debian project and the open source community for achieving this major milestone! With over two years in the making, it contains an impressive amount of new and updated software for […]
Aug 17, 2021 |
MongoDB, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
We’re happy to announce the first release candidate of Percona Server for MongoDB version 5.0.2 (PSMDB). It is now available for download from the Percona website and via the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.2 is an enhanced, source-available, and highly scalable document-oriented database that is a fully compatible drop-in replacement for MongoDB […]
Jun 01, 2021 |
MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
After Oracle released MySQL version 8.0.24 on April 20, 2021, our engineering team got started right away with merging our enhancements to prepare the corresponding 8.0.24 version of Percona Server for MySQL. However, Oracle released MySQL version 8.0.25 shortly afterward on May 11, 2021, to fix a critical bug that we also observed during our […]
May 21, 2021 |
MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software, Storage Engine
Back in December 2018, when we announced the general availability of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0, we also announced that the TokuDB Storage Engine has been marked as “deprecated” in this release, recommending to use the MyRocks Storage Engine as an alternative. We believe that MyRocks provides similar benefits for the majority of workloads and […]