Percona Toolkit 2.2.18 is now available

Percona announces the availability of Percona Toolkit 2.2.18, released on June 24, 2016.

Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools to perform a variety of MySQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex for DBAs to perform manually. Percona Toolkit, like all Percona software, is free and open source.

This release is the current stable release in the 2.2 series. It includes new features and bug fixes as well as improved MySQL 5.7 compatibility. Full details are below. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.

New features:

• 1537416: pt-stalk now sorts the output of transactions by id
• 1553340: Added “Shared” memory info to pt-summary
• PT-24: Added the --no-vertical-format option for pt-query-digest, allowing compatibility with non-standard MySQL clients that don’t support the G directive at the end of a statement

Bug fixes:

• 1402776: Fixed error when parsing tcpdump capture with pt-query-digest
• 1521880: Improved pt-online-schema-change plugin documentation
• 1547225: Clarified the description of the --attribute-value-limit option for pt-query-digest
• 1569564: Fixed all PERL-based tools to return a zero exit status when run with the --version option
• 1576036: Fixed error that sometimes prevented to choose the primary key as index, when using the --where option for pt-table-checksum
• 1585412: Fixed the inability of pt-query-digest to parse the general log generated by MySQL (and Percona Server) 5.7 instance
• PT-36: Clarified the description of the --verbose option for pt-slave-restart

You can find release details in the release notes and the 2.2.18 milestone on Launchpad. Bugs can be reported on the Percona Toolkit launchpad bug tracker.

About the Author

Alexey Zhebel
Alexey works for Percona as a Technical Writer responsible for open source software documentation. He joined the company in March 2015 with almost 8 years of prior experience in writing and managing technical documentation. Before joining Percona, Alexey worked for Oracle on Java SE and Java ME documentation. And before that his writing experience revolved around virtualization and information security software. Alexey has a degree in Electrical Engineering and a supplementary qualification in translation theory (Russian-English). He lives in Saint Petersburg, Russia with his wife and son. He spends his free time practicing and playing ultimate frisbee in a local team.