Percona Server moved to https://jira.percona.com/projects/PS 5.1.58-12.9
Update to MySQL 5.1.58 based release plus various bug fixes.
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- Assignees:
- 14 Alexey Kopytov, 4 Laurynas Biveinis, 7 Oleg Tsarev, 4 Rodrigo Gadea, 2 Stewart Smith
- Blueprints:
- 4 Implemented
- Bugs:
- 6 Invalid, 34 Fix Released
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Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.58-12.9 on August 12, 2011 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).
Based on MySQL 5.1.58, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.58-12.9 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can be found in the 5.1.58-12.9 milestone at Launchpad.
Highlights
Performance Improvements
fsync() has been replaced with fdatasync() to improve perfomance where possible. The former is intended to sync the metadata of the file also (size, name, access time, etc.), but for the transaction log and the doublewrite buffer, such sync of metadata isn’t needed. Bug Fixed: #803270 (Yasufumi Kinoshita).
A remaining loop from an unimplemented feature degraded the performance when using compressed tables and has been removed (buf_LRU_
Compatibility Collations
Two new collations, utf8_general50_ci and ucs2_general50_ci, have been to improve compatibility for those upgrading from MySQL 5.0 or 5.1 prior to version 5.1.24.
A fix for a MySQL bug (#27877) introduced an incompatible change in collations in MySQL 5.1.24. If the following collations were used:
utf8_general_ci
ucs2_general_ci
and any of the indexes contained the German letter “U+00DF SHARP S” ‘ß’ (which became equal to ‘s’), when upgrading from 5.0 / 5.1.23 or lower:
any indexes on columns in that situation must be rebuilt after the upgrade, and
unique constrains may get broken after upgrade due to possible duplicates.
This problem is avoided when upgrading to Percona Server by converting the affected tables or columns to the collations introduced:
utf8_general_ci to utf8_general50_ci, and
ucs2_general_ci to utf8_general50_ci.
Blueprint:
SHM Buffer Pool has been removed
The ”SHM” buffer pool patch has been removed due to being both invasive and not widely used.
Instead, we recommend using the much safer LRU Dump/Restore patch, which provides similar improvements in restart performance and has the advantage of persisting across machine restarts.
The configuration variables for my.cnf have been kept for compatibility and warnings will be printed for the deprecated options (innodb_
Instructions for disabling the SHM buffer pool can be found here and for setting up LRU dump/restore here.
Bug Fixes
When adding a table to the cache, the server may evict and close another if the table cache is full. If the closed table was on the FEDERATED engine and a replication environment, its client connection to the remote server was closed leading to an unappropriated network error and stopping the Slave SQL thread. Bugs Fixed #813587 / #51196 and #61790 in MySQL (Alexey Kopytov).
Uninitialized values in the Slow Query Log patch. Bug Fixed: #794774 (Oleg Tsarev).
Querying global_
As the option ignore-
Querying INNODB_SYS_TABLES after an ALTER TABLE statement leaded to a server crash. Bug Fixed: #627189 (Yasufumi Kinoshita).
The 64-bit CAS implementation may lead to a server crash on IA32 systems. Bug Fixed: #803865 (Laurynas Biveinis).
Using the innodb_
Other Changes
Improvements and fixes on platform-specific distribution:
The compilation of the Response Time Distribution patch has been fixed on Solaris (supported platform) and Windows (experimental). Bug Fixed: #737947 (Laurynas Biveinis)
Improvements and fixes on general distribution: #806975, #790199, #782391, #802829, #700965, #794840,#766266, (Alexey Kopytov, Oleg Tsarev, Stewart Smith, Laurynas Biveinis)
Improvements and fixes on the Percona Server Test Suite: #790199, #785566, #782391, #800559, #794790,#794780, #800035, #684250, #803140, #803137, #803124, #803110, #803100, #803093, #803088,#803076, #803071 (Oleg Tsarev, Yasufumi Kinoshita, Stewart Smith, Alexey Kopytov).
Improvements and fixes on the Percona Server documentation: #803109, #803106, #803097 (Rodrigo Gadea)
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4 blueprints and 40 bugs targeted
Blueprint | Priority | Assignee | Delivery | |
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Update to MySQL 5.1.58 base | Update to MySQL 5.1.58 base | 5 Essential | Oleg Tsarev | 11 Implemented |
Remove buffer_pool shm in PS5.1 | Remove buffer_pool shm in PS5.1 | 4 High | 11 Implemented | |
Add a collation reproducing the pre-5.1.24 behavior of utf8_general_ci and ucs2_general_ci to Percona Server 5.1 | Add a collation reproducing the pre-5.1.24 behavior of utf8_general_ci and ucs2_general_ci to Per... | 1 Undefined | Alexey Kopytov | 11 Implemented |
Document utf8_general50_ci collation for 5.1 | Document utf8_general50_ci collation for 5.1 | 1 Undefined | Rodrigo Gadea | 11 Implemented |