Planet MySQL HA Blog

UMF’s choice of MySQL Enterprise Edition has proven to be a critical component in delivering secure, stable, and affordable mobile financial systems to their clients. From protecting sensitive customer data to ensuring system uptime and supporting cost-conscious businesses, MySQL continues to help UMF lead the way in the mobile financial technology space. For UMF, MySQL is not just a database solution—it's a key driver of their success and growth in a highly competitive and evolving industry.

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Parkson Credit’s selection of MySQL Enterprise Edition has allowed the company to significantly enhance its security, availability, and operational efficiency. The comprehensive suite of features, from enterprise encryption to high availability and disaster recovery, ensured that Parkson Credit not only met regulatory requirements but also provided a seamless and secure experience for their customers.

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We’re thrilled to announce the general availability of the HeatWave REST Service – a powerful, fully managed cloud service that lets you instantly create RESTful API endpoints directly from your HeatWave MySQL databases, without writing a single line of backend code.

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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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