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Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.17-8

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.17-8 on October 30, 2019 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).

This release includes fixes to bugs found in previous releases of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.

Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.17-8 is now the current GA release in the 8.0 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free.

Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 includes all the features available in MySQL 8.0.17 Community Edition in addition to enterprise-grade features developed by Percona.

New Features

Percona Server for MySQL has implemented the ability to have a MySQL Utility user who has system access to do administrative tasks but limited access to user schemas. The user is invisible to other users. This feature is especially useful to those who are operating MySQL as a Service. This feature has the same functionality as the utility user in earlier versions and has been delay-ported to version 8.0.

Percona Server for MySQL has implemented data masking .

Bugs Fixed

  • Changed the default of innodb_empty_free_list_algorithm to backoff. Bugs fixed #5881

  • When the Adaptive Hash Index (AHI) was enabled or disabled, there was an AHI overhead during DDL operations. Bugs fixed #5747.

  • An upgrade to Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.16-7 with encrypted tablespace fails on innodb_dynamic_metadata. Bugs fixed #5874.

  • The rocksdb.ttl_primary test case sometimes fails. Bugs fixed #5722 (Louis Hust)

  • The rocksdb.ns_snapshot_read_committed test case sometimes fails. Bugs fixed #5798 (Louis Hust).

  • During a binlogging replication event, if the master crashes after the multi-threaded slave has begun copying to the slave’s relay log and before the process has completed, a STOP SLAVE on the slave takes longer than expected. Bugs fixed #5824.

  • The purpose of the sql_require_primary_key option is to avoid replication performance issues. Temporary tables are not replicated. The option cannot be used with temporary tables. Bugs fixed #5931.

  • When using skip-innodb_doublewrite in my.cnf, a parallel doublewrite buffer is still created. Bugs fixed #3411.

  • The metadata for every InnoDB table contains encryption information, either a ‘Y’ or an ‘N’ value based on the ENCRYPTION clause or the default_table_encryption value. You are unable to switch the storage engine from InnoDB to MyRocks because MyRocks does not support the ENCRYPTION clause. Bugs fixed #5865.

  • MyRocks does not allow index condition pushdown optimization for specific data types, such as varchar. Bugs fixed #5024.

Other bugs fixed: #5880, #5838, #5682, #5979, #5793, #6020, #5327, #5839, #5933, #5939, #5659, #5924, #5926, #5925, #5875, #5533, #5867, #5864, #5760, #5909, #5985, #5941, #5954, #5790, and #5593.