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Percona Server 5.7.21-21 (2018-04-24)

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.7.21-21 on April 24, 2018. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.

This release is based on MySQL 5.7.21 and includes all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server 5.7.21-21 is now the current GA (Generally Available) release in the 5.7 series. This version of Percona Server for MySQL marks the following encryption features, previously available as beta, as GA: Vault keyring plugin, encryption for InnoDB general tablespaces, and encryption for binary log files.

All software developed by Percona is open-source and free.

New Features

  • A new variable, innodb_temp_tablespace_encrypt, is introduced to turn encryption of temporary tablespace and temporary InnoDB file-per-table tablespaces on/off. Bug fixed #3821.

  • A new variable, innodb_encrypt_online_alter_logs, simultaneously turns on encryption of files used by InnoDB for merge sort, online DDL logs, and temporary tables created by InnoDB for online DDL. Bug fixed #3819.

  • A new variable, innodb_encrypt_tables, can be set to ON, making InnoDB tables encrypted by default, to FORCE, disabling creation of unencrypted tables, or OFF, restoring the like-before behavior. Bug fixed #1525.

  • Query response time plugin now can be disabled at session level with use of a new variable, query_response_time_session_stats.

Bugs Fixed

  • Attempting to use a partially-installed query response time plugin could have caused server crash. Bug fixed #3959.

  • There was a server crash caused by a materialized temporary table from semi-join optimization with key length larger than 1000 bytes. Bug fixed #296.

  • A regression in the original 5.7 port was causing integer overflow with thread_pool_stall_limit variable values bigger than 2 seconds. Bug fixed #1095.

  • A memory leak took place in Percona Server for MySQL when performance schema is used in conjunction with thread pooling. Bug fixed #1096.

  • A code clean-up was done to fix compilation with clang, both general warnings (bug fixed #3814, upstream #89646) and clang 6 specific warnings and errors (bug fixed #3893, upstream #90111).

  • Compilation warning was fixed for -DWITH_QUERY_RESPONSE_TIME=ON CMake compilation option, which makes QRT to be linked statically. Bug fixed #3841.

  • Percona Server for MySQL returned empty result for SELECT query if number of connections exceeded 65535. Bug fixed #314 (upstream #89313).

  • A clean-up in Percona Server for MySQL binlog-related code was made to avoid uninitialized memory comparison. Bug fixed #3925 (upstream #90238).

  • mysqldump utility with --innodb-optimize-keys option was incorrectly working with foreign keys on the same table, producing invalid SQL statements. Bugs fixed #1125 and #3863.

  • A fix of the mysqld startup script failed to detect jemalloc library location for preloading, thus not starting on systemd based machines, introduced in Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.21-20, was improved to take into account previously created configuration file. Bug fixed #3850.

  • The possibility of a truncated bitmap file name was fixed in InnoDB logging subsystem. Bug fixed #3926.

  • Temporary file I/O was not instrumented for Performance Schema. Bug fixed #3937 (upstream #90264).

  • A crash in the unsafe query warning checks with views took place for UPDATE statement in case of statement binlogging format. Bug fixed #290.

MyRocks Changes

  • A re-implemented variable, rpl_skip_tx_api, allows a user to turn on simple RocksDB write batches functionality, increasing replication performance by the transaction API skip. Bug fixed MYR-47.

  • Decoding value-less padded varchar fields could under some circumstances cause assertion and/or data corruption. Bug fixed MYR-232.

TokuDB Changes

  • Two new variables introduced to facilitate the TokuDB fast updates feature,tokudb_enable_fast_update, and tokudb_enable_fast_upsert. Bugs fixed #63 and #148.

  • A set of compilation fixes was introduced to make TokuDB successfully build in MySQL / Percona Server for MySQL 8.0. Bugs fixed #84, #85, #114, #115, #118, #128, #139, #141, and #172.

  • Conditional compilation code dependent on version ID in the TokuDB tree was separated and arranged to specific version branches. Bugs fixed #133, #134, #135, and #136.

  • ALTER TABLE ... COMMENT = ... statement caused TokuDB to rebuild the whole table, which is not needed, as only FRM metadata should be changed. Bugs fixed #130 and #137.

  • Data race on the cache table pair attributes was fixed. Bug fixed #109.

Other bugs fixed: #3793, #3812, #3813, #3815, #3818, #3835, #3875 (upstream #89916), #3843 (upstream #89822), #3848, #3856, #3887, MYR-160, MYR-245, #109, #111, #180, #181, #182, and #188.

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