Percona Server for MySQL 8.4.2-2 (2024-09-)¶
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Percona Server for MySQL 8.4.2-2 includes all the features and bug fixes available in the MySQL 8.4 Community Edition in addition to enterprise-grade features developed by Percona.
Release highlights¶
Improvements and bug fixes introduced by Oracle for MySQL 8.4.1 and 8.4.2 and included in Percona Server for MySQL are the following:
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MySQL stopped unexpectedly during an UPDATE after an ALTER TABLE operation.
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Shutting down the server after an XA START with an empty XA transaction caused it to stop unexpectedly.
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Shutting down the replication applier or binlog applier during an empty XA transaction caused the system to stop unexpectedly.
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The result from a spatial index with a column containing a spatial reference identifier (SRID) was empty. Using FORCE INDEX to scan this index caused an assertion error.
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In some cases, after creating more than 8000 tables, the server failed to restart.
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Startup tablespace file scanning performance was improved.
Find the complete list of bug fixes and changes in the MySQL 8.4.1 Release Notes and MySQL 8.4.2 Release Notes.
Bug fixes¶
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PS-8057:
slow_query_log_filedoes not match filename defined in my.cnf. -
PS-9144: Missing rows after running a null
ALTERwithALGORTITHM=INPLACE. -
PS-9214: An
ALTERtable online results in a “duplicate key” error on the primary key (only index).
Additional resources¶
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Install [Percona Server for MySQL 8.4]
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Download product binaries, packages, and tarballs at Percona Software Downloads
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