Always having in mind providing the latest and the greatest features to our users, we decided to backport Hostname support in Group Replication Whitelist, starting in 5.7.21. Please check the developer blog in here and the official documentation here.
Download MySQL 5.7.21 GA release, and let us know your feedback or doubts through comments on this blog or MySQL bugs.…
In order to improve observability and manageability of MySQL Group Replication (GR), we enhanced its instrumentation in MySQL 8.0.4. With these goals in mind, we have extended the usage of Performance Schema (P_S) from this plugin to the included Group Communication System (GCS) module as well as its submodule eXtended Communications (XCom) which are responsible for all communication involved in the dissemination of transactions to other MySQL instances.…
Since the release of Group Replication, one of its main security features is IP Address Whitelisting. This allows us to control whoever can send requests to enter in a group.
On MySQL version 8.0.4, we added a new possibility that it was lacking since the beginning: the ability to configure IP Address Whitelisting with hostnames.…
Overview
MCM 1.4.5 contains further stability and usability improvements of MySQL Cluster Manager.
The 1.4.5 release bundles MySQL Cluster 7.5.9. However, since MySQL Cluster 7.5.7, system tables contain sufficient information for MCM to properly support rolling reconfigurations when ndb_cluster_connection_pool is enabled for mysqlds.…
We have brought further enhancement to MySQL Group Replication 5.7 release by backporting some most requested features to MySQL 5.7.20 release:
And to MySQL 5.7.19 release:
The Member weight for automatic primary election on failover feature will allow user to influence primary member election using a integer member weight value.…
MySQL 8.0.3 release candidate is out with amazing new replication features, along with changes in couple of replication default options. Thanks to our users for their constant feedback and valuable inputs, MySQL is changing defaults whenever possible to remove configuration overhead for practical deployment of MySQL server.…
Great news! MySQL 8.0.3 is out and it is a release candidate. In the replication team we have been busy working on interesting new enhancements and also doing some clean up. Some of these new features are out in this release.…
Historically, the MySQL binary log has gone through a few revisions resulting in different versions of how the log is formatted. The following shows the version of the binary log and the MySQL version in which it appears. As you can see, version 4 is the current version of the binary log found in the current releases of MySQL.…
In initial Group Replication release, 5.7.17, we included the Single-Primary Mode with automatic membership and fail-over features. The MySQL Server 8.0.2 release has brought further enhancement to Group Replication Single-Primary Mode that will allow users to influence primary member election using integer member weight value.…
In MySQL 8.0.2, users will see the additional columns in the existing Group Replication Performance Schema tables which will provide extended information about Group Replication. Now user can view role and MySQL version of each member of the group, which earlier required a complex set of query.…
