Percona Server 5.5.53-38.4 is now available

Percona announces the release of Percona Server 5.5.53-38.4 on November 18, 2016. Based on MySQL 5.5.53, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.53-38.4 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series.

Percona Server is open-source and free. You can find release details in the 5.5.53-38.4 milestone on Launchpad. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.

Removed Features:

• Metrics for scalability measurement feature has been removed. WARNING: if you have scalability_metrics_control variable in your my.cnf configuration file you’ll need to remove it, otherwise server won’t be able to start.

Bugs Fixed:

• When a stored routine would call an “administrative” command such as OPTIMIZE TABLE, ANALYZE TABLE, ALTER TABLE, CREATE/DROP INDEX, etc. the effective value of log_slow_sp_statements was overwritten by the value of log_slow_admin_statements. Bug fixed #719368.
• Thread Pool thread limit reached and failed to create thread messages are now printed on the first occurrence as well. Bug fixed #1636500.

Other bugs fixed: #1612076, #1633061, #1633430, and #1635184.

Find the release notes for Percona Server 5.5.53-38.4 in our online documentation. Report bugs on the launchpad bug tracker.