Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.54-38.6 on February 1st, 2017. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.
Based on MySQL 5.5.54, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.54-38.6 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 5.5.54-38.6 milestone at Launchpad.
Fixed new compilation warnings with GCC 6. Bugs fixed #1641612 and #1644183.
CONCURRENT_CONNECTIONScolumn in theUSER_STATISTICStable was showing incorrect values. Bug fixed #728082.Audit Log Plugin when set to
JSONformat was not escaping characters properly. Bug fixed #1548745.
mysqld_safenow limits the use ofrmandchownto avoid privilege escalation.chowncan now be used only for/var/logdirectory. Bug fixed #1660265.
Other bugs fixed: #1638897, #1644174, #1644547, and #1644558.
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