MySQL 5.1.57 is out

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

MySQL 5.1.57 packages are now available on Dotdeb : for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” and Debian 5.0 “Lenny” for the amd64 and i386 architectures The corresponding Pinba storage engine has also been rebuilt (Squeeze only). And, as usual, please read the Changelog of this maintainance release before upgrading.  

MySQL 5.1.56 available

Monday, March 14th, 2011

MySQL 5.1.56 packages are now available on Dotdeb : for Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" and Debian 5.0 "Lenny" for the amd64 and i386 architectures Of course, the corresponding Pinba storage engine has been rebuilt (Squeeze only). But take care to the plugin-load directive in your /etc/mysql/my.cnf file : MySQL does not support several plugin-load directives ...

MySQL 5.1.55 is available

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

MySQL 5.1.55 packages are now available on Dotdeb : for Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" and Debian 5.0 "Lenny" for the amd64 and i386 architectures As usual, please read the Changelog of this maintainance release before upgrading. Note 1 : the Pinba storage engine for MySQL has been rebuilt against MySQL 5.1.55 (Squeeze only) Note 2 : Maatkit has ...

MySQL 5.1.54 is available

Saturday, December 18th, 2010

MySQL 5.1.54 packages are now available on Dotdeb in amd64/i386 flavours for Lenny and Squeeze. As usual, please read the Changelog of this maintainance release before upgrading. Now, about MySQL 5.5 (I was asked on Twitter or in the comments here), it will be available on Dotdeb as soon as it is ...

Packages of MySQL 5.1.53 are available for Lenny… and Squeeze!

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

MySQL 5.1.53 packages for Debian 5.0 « Lenny » are now available on Dotdeb in amd64/i386 flavours. Please note that they're available as preview for Squeeze too. This maintainance release fixes many bugs and security issues. Upgrading is strongly recommended after having read the Changelogs here and here.

Upgrade to MySQL 5.1.51! It fixes a DoS vulnerability

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

MySQL versions prior to 5.1.51 (including 5.1.50) suffer from a vulnerability in the processing of arguments passed to the LEAST()or GREATEST() functions. This issue could be exploited by a malicious user to cause a server crash, leading to a DoS condition. You really should upgrade your Lenny servers (amd64 or i386) with the ...

MySQL DBA, Maatkit is good for you!

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

Maatkit is one of the great Open Source tools (among Percona Server, Xtrabackup and so on...) published by Percona. It's a collection of utilities that help MySQL DBAs in many redundant, complex or boring tasks. For example : mk-query-digest that outputs a digest of the queries from a slow-query logfile or ...

MySQL 5.1.50 is here

Monday, September 20th, 2010

Yesterday, many announcements have been made on MySQL Sunday. MySQL 5.5 is now RC, and will be GA soon, with many (exciting) improvements. No, there are no MySQL 5.5 packages on Dotdeb (yet), but MySQL 5.1.50 packages for Debian 5.0 « Lenny » are now available on Dotdeb in amd64/i386 flavours. This bugfix ...

MySQL upgraded to 5.1.49

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

MySQL 5.1.49 packages for Debian 5.0 « Lenny » are now available on Dotdeb in amd64/i386 flavours. This is a bug fix release, embedding the InnoDB plugin 1.0.10. As usual, please read the Changelog carefully before upgrading.

MySQL 5.1.48 packages for Debian are here

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

MySQL 5.1.48 packages for Debian 5.0 « Lenny » are now available on Dotdeb in amd64/i386 flavours. This is a bug fix release, focused on replication and partitioning, and the InnoDB plugin has been updated to the 1.0.9 stable version. As usual, please read the Changelog carefully before upgrading.