Percona-XtraDB version 9.1

Dear Community,

We are announcing today the new version 9.1 of XtraDB storage engine.

The name of binaries has changed to Percona-XtraDB. It is applicable to all packages including RPM, DEB and tar.gz packages.

New features in version 9.1:

• MySQL 5.1.43 is taken as the basis
• packages name changed to Percona-XtraDB
• Enabled support of SSL
• Enabled profiling
• Added script to sort LRU dump
• New supported platforts are added. The full list includes:

  • CentOS 5 (x86_64 and i386)
  • CenOS 4 (x86_64 and i386)
  • Debian lenny (x86_64 and i386)
  • Debian etch (x86_64 and i386)
  • Ubuntu  Jaunty (x86_64 and i386)
  • Ubuntu Intrepid (x86_64 and i386)
  • Ubuntu Hardy (x86_64 and i386)
  • FreeBSD 8 (x86_64 and i386)
  • OpenSolaris (x86_64)

Fixed bugs:

• Bug #506894: buf_flush_LRU_recommendation() is too optimistic
• Fixed mysql-tests:

  • mysql
  • mysql_upgrade
  • ssl tests
  • enabled rpl_killed_ddl and innodb-autoinc tests

Percona-XtraDB obsoletes mysql-server packages, so upgrade is pretty straightforward.
Instead of updating currently installed packages Percona-XtraDB should be installed. It will replace currently installed mysql-server, mysql-client, etc.

Centos platform.
1. If you didn’t install yet Percona YUM repo, please do it. It is available both for x86_64 and i386.

2. Install Percona-XtraDB

Debian platform.

1. Add Percona repository to the sources.list

Instead of “lenny” put the name of your distribution.
2. Update the repository with “apt-get update”
3. Install Percona-XtraDB package

The binaries for supported platforms are located on https://www.percona.com/percona-builds/Percona-XtraDB/Percona-XtraDB-5.1.43-9.1/ .
The latest source code of XtraDB, including development branch you can find on LaunchPAD.

Please report any bugs found on Bugs in Percona XtraDB server.
For general questions use our Pecona-discussions group, and for development question Percona-dev group.

For support, commercial and sponsorship inquiries contact Percona