Planet MySQL HA Blog

So the Beta1 is available for PostgreSQL 18 and while not all the features have to make it to GA, we can surely hope they do!

Taking a close look at what’s coming, here below is the selection of what excites me in particular:

1. OAuth 2.0 authentication support

→ Finally aligns with modern enterprise SSO and identity standards (e.g., Okta, Azure AD). A major win for security teams and regulatory compliance.

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Your MySQL databases are the backbone of your operations, housing invaluable and often sensitive information. But with increasing cyber threats and evolving regulatory landscapes, securing them can feel like an overwhelming challenge. Can you build a security program that's not just compliant, but truly resilient against the ever-present dangers of data breaches and cyberattacks? The good news is, YES, you can.

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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) is scheduled to reach its official end of life on May 31, 2025. In alignment with the upstream vendor’s lifecycle, we are also ending platform support for Ubuntu 20.04 for all our MySQL related product offerings. This date and others are published in advance on our Percona Release Lifecycle Overview page.

As part of our support policy, Percona will continue to provide advisory support for databases running on EOL platforms, but effective April 1, 2025, we have discontinued:

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Let's have a look at the new MySQL Optimizer: Hypergraph

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Uninterrupted IT is vital. MySQL Reference Architectures for High Availability offers blueprints to ensure your MySQL databases are always available, minimizing costly downtime. From Bronze to Platinum, these tiers provide tailored solutions for on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments.

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In this post, we will see how to use Oracle DB Management to monitor an on-premise MySQL instance.

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At Percona, we operate on the premise that full transparency makes a product better. We strive to build the best open-source database products, but also to help you manage any issues that arise in any of the databases that we support. And, in true open-source form, report back on any issues or bugs you might encounter along the way.

We constantly update our bug reports and monitor other boards to ensure we have the latest information, but we wanted to make it a little easier for you to keep track of the most critical ones. This post is a central place to get…

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ClusterControl v2.3.2 is here and is taking its first sincere step into the cloud native world with its Kubernetes operator management panelTech Preview and support for PostgreSQL’s cloudnative-pg and MySQL’s MOCO operators. It also comes with new major versions for PG and MySQL, as well as a new metrics watchlist mode for improved situational awareness! […]

The post ClusterControl adds Kubernetes Database Operator management in v2.3.2 appeared first on Severalnines.

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Every year new cohorts of programmers, DBAs, managers, and more learn MySQL. After MySQL and HeatWave Summit 2025 a few weeks ago, I realized what job needs to be done for these people and how I could help them make progress: revamping this website to focus on “the path”.

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In this blog, we will walk through the process of creating a HeatWave HA Database system using Oracle Cloud Shell.

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