Announcement: Alpha Build of Percona Server 8.0

An alpha version of Percona Server 8.0 is now available in the Percona experimental software repositories. This is a 64-bit release only.

You may experiment with this alpha release by running it in a Docker container:

$ docker run -d -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=password -p 3306:3306 perconalab/percona-server:8.0.12.alpha

When the container starts, connect to it as follows:

$ docker exec -ti $(docker ps | grep -F percona-server:8.0.12.alpha | awk '{print $1}') mysql -uroot -ppassword

Note that this release is not ready for use in any production environment.

Percona Server 8.0 alpha is available for the following platforms:

Note: The list of supported platforms may be different in the GA release.

Fixed Bugs:

PS-4788: Setting log_slow_verbosity and enabling the slow_query_log could lead to a server crash
PS-4814: TokuDB ‘fast’ replace into is incompatible with 8.0 row replication
PS-4834: The encrypted system tablespace has empty uuid

The following features are work in progress and are not yet in a working state:

PS-4803: ALTER TABLE … ADD INDEX … LOCK crash | handle_fatal_signal (sig=11) in dd_table_has_instant_cols
PS-4896: handle_fatal_signal (sig=11) in THD::thread_id likely due to enabling innodb_print_lock_wait_timeout_info
PS-4820: PS crashes with keyring_vault encryption
PS-4796: 8.0 DD and atomic DDL breaks DROP DATABASE for engines that store files in database directory
PS-4898: Crash during PAM authentication plugin installation.
PS-1782: Optimizer chooses wrong plan when joining 2 tables
PS-4850: Toku hot backup plugin dumps tons of info to stdout with no way to disable it
PS-4797: rpl.rpl_master_errors failing, likely due to binlog encryption
PS-4800: Recovery of prepared XA transactions seems broken in 8.0
PS-4853: Installing audit_log plugin causes server to crash
PS-4855: Replace http with https in http://bugs.percona.com in server crash messages
PS-4857: Improve error message handling for compressed columns
PS-4895: Improve error message when encrypted system tablespace was started without keyring plugin
PS-3944: Single variable to control logging in QRT
PS-4705: crash on snapshot size check in RocksDB
PS-4885: Using ALTER … ROW_FORMAT=TOKUDB_QUICKLZ leads to InnoDB: Assertion failure: ha_innodb.cc:12198:m_form->s->row_type == m_create_info->row_type