Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL

It’s release roundup time again here at Percona!

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. This roundup includes a lot of releases, so be sure to check them all out!

Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since June 21, 2021, including several version updates to Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL, as well as Percona Monitoring and Management 2.19.0.

Percona Distribution for MongoDB Operator 1.9.0

On June 29, 2021, Percona Distribution for MongoDB Operator 1.9.0 was released. It automates the creation, modification, or deletion of items in your Percona Server for MongoDB environment. The Operator contains the necessary Kubernetes settings to maintain a consistent Percona Server for MongoDB instance. modification, or deletion of items in your Percona Server for MongoDB environment.

Download Percona Distribution for MongoDB Operator 1.9.0

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL

On July 1, 2021, we released updated versions of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL. With this update of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL, etcd package is added as a DEB package to Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL for Debian 9 (“stretch”). This package is used to set up High Availability clusters with Patroni.

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 13.3
Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 12.7
Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 11.12

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Percona Monitoring and Management 2.19.0

June 30, 2021, saw the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 2.19.0. With it, you can easily view and monitor the performance of your MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB databases. Release highlights include:

• Backup Management can now be enabled from the UI.  We also added support for MongoDB services on-demand backup and restore. For now, it only supports ReplicaSet on S3-compatible storage.
• Dashboards improvements
  • There are several community-driven improvements to ProxySQL data collection, with new dashboards to expose such metrics like: Queries Latency histograms and SHUNNED_REPLICATION_LAG state.
  • Fixes for Amazon Aurora service detection on the dashboard, MongoDB ReplicaSet Summary, and other MongoDB memory-related panels.
• Improvements to DBaaS secrets by generating strong passwords for operators. This is an improvement to the Automated Operator Installation released in PMM 2.18, which will greatly enhance security.

In addition, there are several bug fixes and many improvements, which can be reviewed in the release notes.

Download Percona Monitoring and Management 2.19.0

Percona XtraBackup 2.4.23

On June 22, 2021, we released Percona XtraBackup 2.4.23. It enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. In this release, there are several bug fixes, including a format correction for the xtrabackup –databases options and an update to the XtraBackup Help description for the parameter –stream.

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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.