The developers have just released a new major update

Jun 12, 2013 07:47 GMT  ·  By

Percona Server, an enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL that will allow queries to run faster and more consistently and to consolidate servers on powerful hardware, is now at version 5.1.69-14.7.

Highlights of Percona Server 5.1.69-14.7:

• This latest version is based on MySQL 5.1.69; • The libmysqlclient18 package is no longer chosen in Ubuntu Precise from the distribution’s repository instead of Percona's; • The RPM Percona-Server-shared-compat package naming issue has been fixed; • Percona Server now starts if the XtraDB changed page tracking has been enabled; • The RPM package dependencies, for different major versions of Percona Server, have been fixed.

A complete list of changes and updates can be found in the official announcement.

Download Percona Server 5.1.69-14.7 right now from Softpedia. According to the developers, this is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series.