Percona Release
Lifecycle Overview

• Document Overview and General Policy
• Operating System and Software Lifecycle States
• Operating System Support
• MySQL Software
• MongoDB Software
• PostgreSQL Software
• Percona Kubernetes Operators
• Percona Tools
• Software Lifecycle
• Software Tool Compatibility
• More Information

Document Overview and General Policy

This document is intended to clarify the impact of the Percona Release Lifecycle Overview and the Percona Services Lifecycle Policy on software which Percona produces and the Linux-based Operating System platforms (OS) which we provide services and software builds for. The primary focus of the document is on the current lifecycle state of the Operating System and Percona software along with the compatibility between tool software and database software within the wider database ecosystem. Our general policy is that we try to match our end of life dates for Operating Systems to the upstream vendor and for software Percona produces based on upstream software, we match the upstream software’s end of life dates.

Operating System and Software Lifecycle States

Operating System (OS) Support

We build and support our products on Debian Linux, Ubuntu Server LTS and Oracle Linux assuming its compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and several of RHEL derivatives: AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux with their versions equal to corresponding Oracle Linux releases. These Operating Systems are provided with new package builds as needed during their Active period and when the Operating System has reached End of Life we stop providing new packages but will continue providing downloads of the existing packages. As much as possible, we align our Operating System End of Life dates with the upstream vendor of that Operating System. During the Extended Support period, new builds will continue to be provided as-needed for critical bug fixes, but are available only for subscribers via web download and will not be pushed into the repositories.
Important note: In June 2023 RedHat’s position on allowing free 100%-RHEL-compatible distributions has changed, which you can read about in the following blog posts and the follow ups. As a consequence of this move the future releases of RHEL, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux and Rocky Linux may not be 100% inter-compatible. Given Percona is not in position to guarantee such a compatibility we may be eventually forced to change our support statements related to supportability of Percona software on these Operating Systems. We will continue to closely observe the market dynamics and react to the requests accordingly, potentially by providing dedicated releases for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and other Operating Systems.
A note on 32-bit binary builds: In 2018, Percona has taken the decision that we will no longer be offering 32-bit binaries for new Operating Systems or new major releases of our software. We completely discontinued building 32-bit binaries of our products after Q1 2022.
Unless otherwise noted Percona software is built on AMD/Intel x64 architecture.
As always, we reserve the right to add or remove support for Operating Systems or to change these policies in the future.

Compatibility Commitment for Tools

While we continue offering services for EOL database software and Operating Systems, we only commit to providing backwards compatibility within our tools for Active and Extended Support software. This, for example means that some while EOL database software must still be supported, it may be done using older versions of tools. We do not guarantee that the latest release of a tools software will support EOL database software even if it exists on Active Operating Systems. For example, while Percona Toolkit 3.0 does support Percona Server 5.1, there is no strict requirement that it continue doing so in the next release.

More Information

• • Oracle Lifetime Support Policy (MySQL is on Page 19)
  • Oracle Supported Platforms: MySQL Database
  • MariaDB Platform Deprecation Policy