Percona software releases and updates April 2 - April 17, 2024.

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Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software. It offers highlights, critical information, 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 April 1, 2024. Take a look.

Percona Distribution for MySQL 8.0.36 (PXC-based variant) was released on April 3, 2024. It is the most stable, scalable, and secure open source MySQL distribution, with two download options: one based on Percona Server for MySQL and one based on Percona XtraDB Cluster. This release is focused on the Percona XtraDB Cluster-based deployment variation and is based on Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0.36. Release highlights include improvements and bug fixes provided by Oracle for MySQL 8.0.36:

• The hashing algorithm employed yielded poor performance when using a HASH field to check for uniqueness. (Bug #109548, Bug #34959356)
• All statement instrument elements that begin with statement/sp/%, except statement/sp/stmt, are disabled by default.

Download Percona Distribution for MySQL 8.0.36 (PXC-based variant)

Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0.36 was released on April 3, 2024. It supports critical business applications in your public, private, or hybrid cloud environment. Our free, open source, enterprise-grade solution includes the high availability and security features your business requires to meet your customer expectations and business goals.

Download Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0.36

Percona Distribution for MongoDB 7.0.7 was released on April 4, 2024. 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.

It includes the following components:

• Percona Server for MongoDB is a fully compatible source-available, drop-in replacement for MongoDB.
• Percona Backup for MongoDB is a distributed, low-impact solution for achieving consistent backups of MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets.

Download Percona Distribution for MongoDB 7.0.7

April 9, 2024, saw the release of Percona Distribution for MongoDB 5.0.26. This release is based on Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.26-22 and Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.4.1.

Download Percona Distribution for MongoDB 5.0.26

On April 2, 2024, we released Percona Distribution for MongoDB 4.4.29. This is the last minor release in Percona Distribution for MongoDB 4.4.

Download Percona Distribution for MongoDB 4.4.29

Percona Server for MongoDB 7.0.7-4 was released on April 4, 2024. It is an enhanced, source-available, and highly-scalable database that is a fully-compatible, drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition 7.0.5 and includes the improvements and bug fixes of MongoDB 7.0.6 Community Edition and MongoDB 7.0.7 Community Edition.

Download Percona Server for MongoDB 7.0.7-4

Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.26-22 was released on April 9, 2024. It is an enhanced, source-available, and highly-scalable database that is a fully-compatible, drop-in replacement for MongoDB 5.0.x Community Edition. Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.26-22 includes both improvements and bug fixes of MongoDB 5.0.25 Community Edition and MongoDB 5.0.26 Community Edition.

Download Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.26-22

Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4.29-28 was released on April 2, 2024. This is the last minor release in Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4.

Download Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4.29-28

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 and is trusted by global brands to unify, monitor, manage, secure, and optimize their database environments. ∎