Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.54-38.6 is now available

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.54-38.6 on February 1, 2017. Based on MySQL 5.5.54, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.54-38.6 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series.

Percona Server for MySQL is open-source and free. You can find release details in the 5.5.54-38.6 milestone on Launchpad. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.

Bugs Fixed:

• Fixed new compilation warnings with GCC 6. Bugs fixed #1641612 and #1644183.
• CONCURRENT_CONNECTIONS column in the USER_STATISTICS table was showing incorrect values. Bug fixed #728082.
• Audit Log Plugin when set to JSON format was not escaping characters properly. Bug fixed #1548745.
• mysqld_safe now limits the use of rm and chown to avoid privilege escalation. chown can now be used only for /var/log directory. Bug fixed #1660265.

Other bugs fixed: #1638897, #1644174, #1644547, and #1644558.

[UPDATE 2016-02-02]: New packages have been pushed to repositories with incremented package version to address the bug #1661123.

Find the release notes for Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.54-38.6 in our online documentation. Report bugs on the launchpad bug tracker.