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List:       mysql-announce
Subject:    MySQL Cluster 7.3.7 has been released
From:       Sreedhar S <sreedhar.sreedhargadda () oracle ! com>
Date:       2014-10-18 1:43:33
Message-ID: 5441C2F5.5090103 () oracle ! com
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Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Cluster is the distributed, shared-nothing variant of MySQL. This
storage engine provides:

      - Real-time performance based on in-memory storage (with
        checkpointing to disk)
      - Read & write scalability through transparent auto-sharding
      - 99.999% High Availability with no single point of failure and
        on-line maintenance
      - SQL and NoSQL API (including C++, Java, http, Memcached and
        JavaScript/Node.js)
      - Active-Active/Multi-Master geographic replication

MySQL Cluster 7.3.7, has been released and can be downloaded from
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/
where you will also find Quick Start guides to help you get your first
MySQL Cluster database up and running.

The release notes are available from:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql-cluster/7.3/en/mysql
-cluster-news-5-6-21-ndb-7-3-7.html

MySQL Cluster enables users to meet the database challenges of next
generation web, cloud, and communications services with uncompromising
scalability, uptime and agility.

More details can be found at
http://www.mysql.com/products/cluster/

Enjoy !


Changes in MySQL Cluster NDB 7.3.7 (5.6.21-ndb-7.3.7) (2014-10-17)

    MySQL Cluster NDB 7.3.7 is a new release of MySQL Cluster, based
    on MySQL Server 5.6 and including features from version 7.3 of the
    NDB storage engine, as well as fixing a number of recently
    discovered bugs in previous MySQL Cluster releases.

    Obtaining MySQL Cluster NDB 7.3.  MySQL Cluster NDB 7.3 source
    code and binaries can be obtained from
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/.

    For an overview of changes made in MySQL Cluster NDB 7.3, see
    MySQL Cluster Development in MySQL Cluster NDB 7.3
    (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-cluster-development- 
<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-cluster-development-5-6-ndb-7-3.html>
5-6-ndb-7-3.html 
<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-cluster-development-5-6-ndb-7-3.html>).

    This release also incorporates all bugfixes and changes made in
    previous MySQL Cluster releases, as well as all bugfixes and
    feature changes which were added in mainline MySQL 5.6 through
    MySQL 5.6.21 (see Changes in MySQL 5.6.21 (2014-09-23)
    (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-21.html)).

    Bundled SSL Update (Commercial Releases)

      * Starting with this release, commercial distributions of MySQL
        Cluster NDB 7.3 are built using OpenSSL 1.0.1i.

   Functionality Added or Changed

      * After adding new data nodes to the configuration file of a
        MySQL Cluster having many API nodes, but prior to starting any
        of the data node processes, API nodes tried to connect to
        these "missing" data nodes several times per second, placing
        extra loads on management nodes and the network. To reduce
        unnecessary traffic caused in this way, it is now possible to
        control the amount of time that an API node waits between
        attempts to connect to data nodes which fail to respond; this
        is implemented in two new API node configuration parameters
        StartConnectBackoffMaxTime and ConnectBackoffMaxTime.
        Time elapsed during node connection attempts is not taken into
        account when applying these parameters, both of which are
        given in milliseconds with approximately 100 ms resolution. As
        long as the API node is not connected to any data nodes as
        described previously, the value of the
        StartConnectBackoffMaxTime parameter is applied; otherwise,
        ConnectBackoffMaxTime is used.
        In a MySQL Cluster with many unstarted data nodes, the values
        of these parameters can be raised to circumvent connection
        attempts to data nodes which have not yet begun to function in
        the cluster, as well as moderate high traffic to management
        nodes.
        For more information about the behavior of these parameters,
        see Defining SQL and Other API Nodes in a MySQL Cluster
        (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-cluster-api-defi 
<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-cluster-api-definition.html>
nition.html 
<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-cluster-api-definition.html>). 
(Bug #17257842)

      * Added the --exclude-missing-tables option for ndb_restore.
        When enabled, the option causes tables present in the backup
        but not in the target database to be ignored. (Bug #57566, Bug
        #11764704)

    Bugs Fixed

      * When assembling error messages of the form Incorrect state for
        node n state: node_state, written when the transporter failed
        to connect, the node state was used in place of the node ID in
        a number of instances, which resulted in errors of this type
        for which the node state was reported incorrectly. (Bug
        #19559313, Bug #73801)

      * In some cases, transporter receive buffers were reset by one
        thread while being read by another. This happened when a race
        condition occurred between a thread receiving data and another
        thread initiating disconnect of the transporter (disconnection
        clears this buffer). Concurrency logic has now been
        implemented to keep this race from taking place. (Bug
        #19554279, Bug #73656)

      * The failure of a data node could in some situations cause a
        set of API nodes to fail as well due to the sending of a
        CLOSE_COMREQ signal that was sometimes not completely
        initialized. (Bug #19513967)

      * A more detailed error report is printed in the event of a
        critical failure in one of the NDB internal sendSignal*()
        methods, prior to crashing the process, as was already
        implemented for sendSignal(), but was missing from the more
        specialized sendSignalNoRelease() method. Having a crash of
        this type correctly reported can help with identifying
        configuration hardware issues in some cases. (Bug #19414511)
        References: See also Bug #19390895.

      * ndb_restore failed to restore the cluster's metadata when
        there were more than approximately 17 K data objects. (Bug
        #19202654)

      * Parallel transactions performing reads immediately preceding a
        delete on the same tuple could cause the NDB kernel to crash.
        This was more likely to occur when separate TC threads were
        specified using the ThreadConfig configuration parameter. (Bug
        #19031389)

      * Attribute promotion between different TEXT types (any of
        TINYTEXT, TEXT, MEDIUMTEXT, and LONGTEXT) by ndb_restore was
        not handled properly in some cases. In addition, TEXT values
        are now truncated according to the limits set by mysqld (for
        example, values converted to TINYTEXT from another type are
        truncated to 256 bytes). In the case of columns using a
        multibyte character set, the value is truncated to the end of
        the last well-formed character.
        Also as a result of this fix, conversion to a TEXT column of
        any size that uses a different character set from the original
        is now disallowed. (Bug #18875137)

      * The NDB optimized node recovery mechanism attempts to transfer
        only relevant page changes to a starting node in order to
        speed the recovery process; this is done by having the
        starting node indicate the index of the last global checkpoint
        (GCI) in which it participated, so that the node that was
        already running copies only data for rows which have changed
        since that GCI. Every row has a GCI metacolumn which
        facilitates this; for a deleted row, the slot formerly stpring
        this row's data contains a GCI value, and for deleted pages,
        every row on the missing page is considered changed and thus
        needs to be sent.
        When these changes are received by the starting node, this
        node performs a lookup for the page and index to determine
        what they contain. This lookup could cause a real underlying
        page to be mapped against the logical page ID, even when this
        page contained no data.
        One way in which this issue could manifest itself occurred
        after cluster DataMemory usage approached maximum, and
        deletion of many rows followed by a rolling restart of the
        data nodes was performed with the expectation that this would
        free memory, but in fact it was possible in this scenario for
        memory not to be freed and in some cases for memory usage
        actually to increase to its maximum.
        This fix solves these issues by ensuring that a real physical
        page is mapped to a logical ID during node recovery only when
        this page contains actual data which needs to be stored. (Bug
        #18683398, Bug #18731008)

      * When a data node sent a MISSING_DATA signal due to a buffer
        overflow and no event data had yet been sent for the current
        epoch, the dummy event list created to handle this
        inconsistency was not deleted after the information in the
        dummy event list was transferred to the completed list. (Bug
        #18410939)

      * Incorrect calculation of the next autoincrement value
        following a manual insertion towards the end of a cached range
        could result in duplicate values sometimes being used. This
        issue could manifest itself whne using certain combinations of
        values for auto_increment_increment, auto_increment_offset,
        and ndb_autoincrement_prefetch_sz.
        This issue has been fixed by modifying this calculation to
        ensure that the next value from the cache as computed by NDB
        is of the form auto_increment_offset + (N *
        auto_increment_increment. This avoids any rounding up by the
        MySQL Server of the returned value, which could result in
        duplicate entries when the rounded-up value fell outside the
        range of values cached by NDB. (Bug #17893872)

      * ndb_show_tables --help output contained misleading information
        about the --database (-d) option. In addition, the long form
        of the option (--database) did not work properly. (Bug
        #17703874)

      * Using the --help option with ndb_print_file caused the program
        to segfault. (Bug #17069285)

      * For multithreaded data nodes, some threads do communicate
        often, with the result that very old signals can remain at the
        top of the signal buffers. When performing a thread trace, the
        signal dumper calculated the latest signal ID from what it
        found in the signal buffers, which meant that these old
        signals could be erroneously counted as the newest ones. Now
        the signal ID counter is kept as part of the thread state, and
        it is this value that is used when dumping signals for trace
        files. (Bug #73842, Bug #19582807)

      * Cluster Replication: The fix for Bug #18770469 in the MySQL
        Server made changes in the transactional behavior of the
        temporary conversion tables used when replicating between
        tables with different schemas. These changes as implemented
        are not compatible with NDB, and thus the fix for this bug has
        been reverted in MySQL Cluster. (Bug #19692387)
        References: See also Bug #19704825.

      * Cluster API: The fix for Bug #16723708 stopped the
        ndb_logevent_get_next() function from casting a log event's
        ndb_mgm_event_category to an enum type, but this change
        interfered with existing applications, and so the function's
        original behavior is now reinstated. A new MGM API function
        exhibiting the corrected behavior ndb_logevent_get_next2() has
        been added in this release to take the place of the reverted
        function, for use in applications that do not require backward
        compatibility. In all other respects apart from this, the new
        function is identical with its predecessor. (Bug #18354165)

      * Cluster API: NDB API scans leaked Ndb_cluster_connection
        objects after nextResult() was called when an operation
        resulted in an error. This leak locked up the corresponding
        connection objects in the DBTC kernel block until the
        connection was closed. (Bug #17730825)

      * ClusterJ: Retrieval of values from BLOB and TEXT columns by
        ClusterJ column accessor methods was not handled correctly.
        (Bug #18419468, Bug #19028487)


On Behalf of the MySQL Cluster and the Oracle/MySQL RE Team
Sreedhar S



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