Galera Cluster 2.1 Release Rolling Out

Galera Cluster release 2.1 has been published.

This is a maintenance release and includes the new Galera Replication library version 2.1 and corresponding MySQL server releases for both MySQL 5.5.23 and MySQL 5.1.62 versions. The replication API version is still at version #23.

The 2.1 release has a number of fixes in Galera replication and MySQL provider layers, including:

• fixes for foreign key support (with 5.5.23 release only)
• fixes for incremental state transfer
• support for wsrep_sst_method=skip to avoid performing any state snapshot transfer during node joining
• wsrep_urls configuration variable to specify a list of known cluster nodes where node should try to connect during startup
• supporting MySQL replication filters

...to name but a few, a comprehensive list of bug fixes can be browsed in launchpad bug trackers (Galera 2.1, MySQL 5.5.23-23.6, MySQL 5.1.62-23.4).

The 2.1 release is backwards compatible with earlier releases, and rolling online upgrade for the Cluster is possible.

Downloads can be reached at downloads page as usual.

Galera Cluster Support and Consulting Services from CAPSiDE

CAPSiDE and Codership have joined forces to offer Galera Cluster related support and consulting services for the fast growing Galera user community.

CAPSiDE now offers the Galera Cluster technology, including the consulting services and support,in partnership with the Codership's development team. This cooperation sums up years of experience and proven track record of deploying large online platforms with the highest requirements on stability, high availability, performance and cost efficiency. CAPSiDE's services are offered to all Spanish speaking countries (Spain and South America), including all levels of professional support in Spanish and English.

CAPSiDE has years of competence in MySQL consulting and support. They have a deep understanding of clustering and replication technologies and how to implement them into production. They are experts in MySQL performance, availability and scalability. CAPSiDE also has wide experience on cloud environments, being able to now offer active-active MySQL clusters with the Galera technology on Amazon Web Services (AWS EC2), RackSpace Cloud, Xen environments, VMWare and Microsoft Hyper-V platforms, apart from physical environments. CAPSiDE is the perfect partner for Codership.

About CAPSiDE

CAPSiDE is a Systems Engineering company specialized in technological consulting and professional services, counting with expert engineers about high availability systems, networks and software developing.
Founded in the year 2001, CAPSiDE has wide experience on design, deployment and hosting platforms for complex applications and critical purpose Systems.
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