MySQL 5.5.20

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

The packages of MySQL 5.5.20 are now available for Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" on both amd64 and i386 architectures, with the following changes : the mysql-common package should now work with MySQL 5.1 packages without any problem (unknown configuration variables in /etc/mysql/my.cnf have been commented out) mysql-server-5.5 now supports Linux native asynchronous IO As usual, please ...

MySQL 5.5.19

Monday, December 19th, 2011

The packages of MySQL 5.5.19 are now available for Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" on both amd64 and i386 architectures. They fix some annoying issues that Dotdeb users kindly reported : the mysql-common package, in its 5.5.19+ version, "breaks"  mysql-server-5.1 and mysql-client-5.1 (as APT means it - it won't actually break your server into pieces). Freezing ...

MySQL 5.5.18 is out

Saturday, November 19th, 2011

MySQL 5.5.18 has been released by Oracle yesterday. The packages for Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" are now available on Dotdeb for both amd64 and i386 architectures. As usual, please read the full Changelog carefully before upgrading. Please also note that Oracle now provides .deb packages on their download page. That's a great thing, but ...

MySQL 5.5 is finally here!

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

Some months after MySQL 5.5 being released as GA, I'm proud to announce that MySQL 5.5.17 is now available on Dotdeb, for Debian 6.0 "Squeeze", for both amd64 and i386 architectures. Focusing on compatibility with previous and future official Debian packages of MySQL, Dotdeb's ones are based on the great work ...