Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.49-37.9 on May 19, 2016. Based on MySQL 5.5.49, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.49-37.9 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series.

Percona Server is open-source and free. Details of the release can be found in the 5.5.49-37.9 milestone on Launchpad. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.

Bugs Fixed:

  • Percona Server is now built with system zlib library instead of the older bundled one. Bug fixed #1108016.
  • CREATE TABLE ... LIKE ... could create a system table with an unsupported enforced engine. Bug fixed #1540338.
  • The server will now show a more descriptive error message when Percona Server fails with errno == 22 "Invalid argument", if innodb_flush_method was set to ALL_O_DIRECT. Bug fixed #1578604.
  • apt-cache show command for percona-server-client was showing innotop included as part of the package. Bug fixed #1201074.
  • mysql-systemd would fail with PAM authentication and proxies due to regression introduced when fixing bug #1534825 in Percona Server 5.5.48-37.8. Bug fixed #1558312.

Other bugs fixed: #1578625 (upstream #81295), bug fixed #1553166, and bug fixed #1578303 (upstream #81324).

The release notes for Percona Server 5.5.49-37.9 are available in our online documentation. Bugs can be reported on the launchpad bug tracker.