Codership is pleased to announce the release of Galera Cluster 5.5.47 and 5.6.28 with Galera Replication library 3.14, implementing wsrep API version 25.

The library is now available as targeted packages and package repositories for a number of Linux distributions, including, RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE and SLES. Obtaining packages using a package repository removes the need to download individual files and facilitates the deployment and upgrade of Galera nodes.

This and future releases will be available from http://www.galeracluster.com. The source repositories and bug tracking are now on http://www.github.com/codership .

This release incorporates all changes up to MySQL 5.5.47 and 5.6.28.

New features and notable fixes in Galera replication since last binary release by Codership (3.13):

• use system ASIO library when compiling, if available (codership/galera#367)
• improvements to Debian packages that allow a Galera library package downloaded from galeracluster.com to be used with MariaDB Enterprise Cluster and Percona XtraDB Cluster

New features and notable changes in MySQL-wsrep 5.6 since last binary release by Codership (5.6.27):

• If a query such as CREATE USER needs to be printed to the error log, any
  plaintext passwords will be obfuscated (codership/mysql-wsrep#216)
• All SHOW CREATE and SHOW CODE commands now observe the wsrep_sync_wait
  variable (codership/mysql-wsrep#228)

Notable bug fixes in MySQL-wsrep 5.6.28:

• FLUSH TABLES could cause the cluster to hang (codership/mysql-wsrep#237)
• The following transaction could be needlessly aborted if the previous one was aborted (codership/mysql-wsrep#248)
• A node could hang under workload containing both DDL and DML statements (codership/mysql-wsrep#233)

New features and notable changes in MySQL 5.6.28:

• Miscellaneous bug fixes in InnoDB
• More error conditions when writing to the binary log are caught and handled based on the value of the binlog_error_action variable