7 Jun 2023 Webinar: Upgrade your MySQL 5.7 and older Galera Clusters to MySQL 8.0 with no downtime We are sure you’ve probably already heard that MySQL 5.7 is going to reach End of Life (EOL) by October 2023. We are here to tell you that the migration from MySQL 5.7 need not be scary — MySQL 8.0 has been Generally Available for five years, and the Galera Cluster product for it, has […] Read more...
25 May 2023 Get upgrading from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0 An inordinate amount of our Galera Cluster customer base is still using the MySQL 5.7 variant of Galera Cluster. Besides not being able to have access to all the new features of the Galera 4 library, MySQL 5.7 is rapidly reaching End of Life (EOL) status in October 2023. This is less than six months […] Read more...
21 Apr 2023 Using GCache encryption in Galera Cluster Enterprise Edition (EE) MySQL has InnoDB data encryption, and Galera Cluster has supported it since it appeared in the main server. The one thing that was not covered was the encryption of the Galera Cache (the galera.cache file). Here is a simple extract from the binlog.000001 files. strings binlog.* |grep Custom |wc -l 10000 strings galera.cache |grep Custom […] Read more...
14 Apr 2023 Adding a node to your existing Galera Cluster A common question we get is: can I add a node to my Galera Cluster without restarting the entire cluster? The simple answer is YES. A lot worry about the fact that you do list servers that are part of the cluster within your my.cnf, and this file is not reloadable in a dynamic fashion. […] Read more...
11 Apr 2023 Galera Cluster for MySQL 5.7.41 and MySQL 8.0.32 released Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of the multi-master Galera Cluster for MySQL 5.7, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 5.7.41 (release notes, download) and MySQL-wsrep 8.0.32 (release notes, download). This release incorporates all changes to MySQL 5.7.41 and MySQL 8.0.32 respectively, adding a synchronous option for your MySQL High Availability solutions. This […] Read more...
10 Mar 2023 Galera Cluster for MySQL 5.7.40 and MySQL 8.0.31 released Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of the multi-master Galera Cluster for MySQL 5.7, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 5.7.40 (release notes, download) and MySQL-wsrep 8.0.31 (release notes, download) with Galera replication library 4.14 (release notes, download) implementing wsrep API version 26. This release incorporates all changes to MySQL 5.7.40 and MySQL […] Read more...
