Percona Toolkit 3.0.7 Is Now Available

Percona announces the release of Percona Toolkit 3.0.7 on March 1, 2018.

Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced open source command-line tools, developed and used by the Percona technical staff, that are engineered to perform a variety of MySQL®, MongoDB® and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually. With over 1,000,000 downloads, Percona Toolkit supports Percona Server for MySQL, MySQL, MariaDB®, Percona Server for MongoDB and MongoDB. Percona Toolkit, like all Percona software, is free and open source.

You can download packages from the website or install from official repositories.

This release includes the following changes:

New Features:

• PT-633: Add the --mysql-only option to pt-stalk for RDS
  We’ve improved data collection from Amazon RDS MySQL and Amazon Aurora MySQL to only perform remote mysqld checks. Previously we would also collect from the local system which was confusing.

Bug fixes:

• PT-244: The --data-dir option of pt-online-schema-change is broken for partitioned table.
• PT-1256: pt-table-sync does not use the character set for the table it is synchronizing
• PT-1455: pt-osc is stuck when filtering out on the slave the table that is being altered
• PT-1485:  The Security section of pt-mysql-summary is broken in versions greater than 5.6
• PMM-1905:  Explain fails if it encounters a negative ntoreturn

Known Issues:

• pt-online-schema-change will lock forever if using --drop-swap under MySQL 8.0.3-rc and 8.0.4-rc due to an error in MySQL: https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=8948
• pt-online-schema-change will lose FK constraints under MySQL 8.0.2-dmr, 8.0.3-rc 8.0.4-rc due to an error in MySQL: https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=89441
• pt-show-grants can’t handle MySQL 8 roles yet