Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.49-37.9 on May 19th, 2016. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.
Based on MySQL 5.5.49, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.49-37.9 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can be found in the 5.5.49-37.9 milestone at Launchpad.
Percona Server is now built with system
zliblibrary instead of the older bundled one. Bug fixed #1108016.
CREATE TABLE ... LIKE ...could create a system table with an unsupported enforced engine. Bug fixed #1540338.Server will now show more descriptive error message when Percona Server fails with
errno == 22 "Invalid argument", ifinnodb_flush_methodwas set toALL_O_DIRECT. Bug fixed #1578604.
apt-cache showcommand forpercona-server-clientwas showinginnotopincluded as part of the package. Bug fixed #1201074.
mysql-systemdwould fail with PAM authentication and proxies due to regression introduced when fixing #1534825 in Percona Server5.5.48-37.8. Bug fixed #1558312.
Other bugs fixed: #1578625 (upstream #81295), bug fixed #1553166, and bug fixed #1578303 (upstream #81324).
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