Percona Server 5.6.12-60.4 second Release Candidate now available

Percona is glad to announce the second Release Candidate release of Percona Server 5.6.12-60.4 on June 27th, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).

Based on the recently released MySQL 5.6.12, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.12-60.4 is the second RC 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 5.6.12-60.4 milestone at Launchpad.

New Features:

• Percona Server has implemented support for supplementary groups in the PAM Authentication Plugin.

Bugs Fixed:

• mysql_install_db did not work properly in debug and Valgrind builds. Bug fixed #1179359.
• Fixed yum dependencies that were causing conflicts in CentOS 6.3 during installation. Bug fixed #1051874.
• The RPM installer script had the server’s datadir hardcoded to /var/lib/mysql instead of using my_print_defaults function to get the correct datadir info. Bug fixed #1181753.
• Fixed the upstream bug #68354 that could cause server to crash when performing update or join on Federated and MyISAM tables with one row, due to incorrect interaction between Federated storage engine and the optimizer. Bug fixed #1182572.
• Fixed the compiler warnings caused by Atomic write support for Fusion-io devices feature when building Percona Server on non-Linux platforms. Bug fixed #1189429.

Other bugs fixed: bug fixed #1188516, bug fixed #1130731 and bug fixed #1133266.

Release notes for Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.12-60.4 are available in our online documentation. Bugs can be reported on the launchpad bug tracker.