It’s release roundup time here at Percona!
It’s release roundup time here at Percona!Our Release Roundups showcase the latest software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software, with highlights and critical information, as well as links to the full release notes and direct links to the software or service itself.
Today’s post includes those which have come out since March 16, 2020.
Percona Monitoring and Management 2.4.0
On March 18, 2020, we released Percona Monitoring and Management 2.4.0. It is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL performance. New features include the support of Prometheus custom configuration and improvements include Time Metrics shown as “AVG per query” instead of “AVG per second”, Clickhouse queries optimized for Query Analytics, and a healthcheck indicator was implemented for the PMM Server Docker image. Several bugs were fixed as well.
Download Percona Monitoring and Management 2.4.0
Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.19-10
March 23, 2020, saw the release of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.19-10. It includes all the features and bug fixes available in MySQL 8.0.19 Community Edition in addition to enterprise-grade features developed by Percona. Several new features and improvements were introduced, including the addition of a server’s UUID to Percona system keys, a simplified LDAP authentication plugin, and the removal of the KEYRING_ON option from default_table_encryption. There are also many bug fixes in this release, a full list of which can be seen in the release notes.
Download Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.19-10
Percona XtraBackup 2.4.19
On March 25, 2020, Percona XtraBackup 2.4.19 was announced. It enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, it drives down backup costs while providing unique features for MySQL backups. In this release, bug PXB-1982 was fixed, where the history table showed a wrong value for lock_time.
Download Percona XtraBackup 2.4.19
Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona Server for MongoDB 1.4.0
Percona Kubernetes Operator for PSMDB 1.4.0 was released on March 27, 2020. Several new features and improvements were introduced. Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) was added to the list of the officially supported platforms, Percona Server for MongoDB 4.2 is now supported, and the operator now updates observedGeneration status message to allow better monitoring of the cluster rollout or backups/restore process. In addition, several bugs were fixed, including where setting the updateStrategy: OnDelete didn’t work if was not specified from scratch in CR
Install Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona Server for MongoDB 1.4.0
Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0.17-10
And finally, Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0.17-10 was released on March 30, 2020. It is a free, open source drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition but with enterprise-grade functionality. This version is based on MongoDB 4.0.17 and does not include any additional changes.
Download Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0.17-10
That’s it for this roundup, and be sure to follow us on Twitter to stay up-to-date on the most recent releases! Percona is a leader in providing best-of-breed enterprise-class support, consulting, managed services, training and software for MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and other open source databases in on-premises and cloud environments.
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