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It’s time for the release roundup!

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive.

Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software. It offers highlights and critical information, as well as links to the full release notes and direct links to the software or service itself to download.

Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since June 13, 2022. Take a look!

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 14.4

On June 27, 2022, Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 14.4 was released.  This release of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is based on PostgreSQL 14.4. It fixes the issue with all PostgreSQL 14 versions that could cause silent data corruption when using the CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY or REINDEX CONCURRENTLY commands. Learn how to detect and fix silent data corruption in your indexes in the upstream documentation.

Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 14.4

Percona Distribution for MySQL (Percona Server for MySQL-based variant) 8.0.28

Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS-based variant) 8.0.28 was released on June 20, 2022. It is a single solution with the best and most critical enterprise components from the MySQL open source community, designed and tested to work together. Release highlights include:

• Encryption functions and variables to manage the encryption range are added. The functions may take an algorithm argument. Encryption converts plaintext into ciphertext using a key and an encryption algorithm.
• Support for the Amazon Key Management Service (AWS KMS) component.
• Error messages are now logged to a memory buffer.
• ZenFS file system plugin for RocksDB is updated to version 2.1.0.
• Memory leak and errors detectors (Valgrind or AddressSanitizer) provide detailed stack traces from dynamic libraries (plugins and components). The detailed stack traces make it easier to identify and fix the issues.

Download Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS-based variant) 8.0.28

Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.28-20

On June 20, 2022, we released Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.28-20, a free, fully compatible, enhanced, and open source drop-in replacement for any MySQL database. It provides superior performance, scalability, and instrumentation. New features and improvements introduced include:

• Percona Server for MySQL implements encryption functions and variables to manage the encryption range. The functions may take an algorithm argument. Encryption converts plaintext into ciphertext using a key and an encryption algorithm. You can also use the user-defined functions with the PEM format keys generated externally by the OpenSSL utility.
• Percona Server for MySQL adds support for the Amazon Key Management Service (AWS KMS) component.
• ZenFS file system plugin for RocksDB is updated to version 2.1.0.
• Memory leak and error detectors (Valgrind or AddressSanitizer) provide detailed stack traces from dynamic libraries (plugins and components). The detailed stack traces make it easier to identify and fix the issues.

Download Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.28-20

Percona Distribution for MongoDB 5.0.9

On June 20, 2022, Percona Distribution for MongoDB 5.0.9 was released. It is a freely available MongoDB database alternative, giving you a single solution that combines enterprise components from the open source community, designed and tested to work together. The aim of Percona Distribution for MongoDB is to enable you to run and operate your MongoDB efficiently with the data being consistently backed up. Release highlights include:

• The following improvements to the data-at-rest encryption using the Keys Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) (tech preview feature):
  • the support of multiple KMIP servers as the failover to your setup
  • the ability to set KMIP client certificate passwords through a flag to simplify the migration from MongoDB Enterprise to Percona Server for MongoDB
• Added support for Ubuntu 22.04 for Percona Server for MongoDB and Percona Backup for MongoDB.
• Added improvements to initial syncs from a secondary sync source.

Download Percona Distribution for MongoDB 5.0.9

Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.9-8

Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.9-8 was released on June 20, 2022. It’s an enhanced, source-available, and highly-scalable database that is a fully-compatible, drop-in replacement for MongoDB 5.0.9 Community Edition. It supports MongoDB 5.0.9 protocols and drivers.

Download Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.9-8

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, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and other open source databases in on-premises and cloud environments.