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MySQL Cluster 7.3.5 has been released
Posted by: Balasubramanian Kandasamy
Date: April 07, 2014 08:15PM

 

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 7.3.5, 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-5-6-17-ndb-7-3-5.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 7.3.5 (5.6.17-ndb-7.3.5) (2014-04-07)

   MySQL Cluster NDB 7.3.5 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-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 5.6.17 (see Changes in MySQL 5.6.17 (2014-03-27)
   (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-17.html))

   Functionality Added or Changed

     * Handling of LongMessageBuffer shortages and statistics has
       been improved as follows:

          + The default value of LongMessageBuffer has been increased
            from 4 MB to 64 MB.

          + When this resource is exhausted, a suitable informative
            message is now printed in the data node log describing
            possible causes of the problem and suggesting possible
            solutions.

          + LongMessageBuffer usage information is now shown in the
            ndbinfo.memoryusage table. See the description of this
            table for an example and additional information.

   Bugs Fixed

     * Important Change: The server system variables
       ndb_index_cache_entries and ndb_index_stat_freq, which had
       been deprecated in a previous MySQL Cluster release series,
       have now been removed. (Bug #11746486, Bug #26673)

     * When an ALTER TABLE statement changed table schemas without
       causing a change in the table's partitioning, the new table
       definition did not copy the hash map from the old definition,
       but used the current default hash map instead. However, the
       table data was not reorganized according to the new hashmap,
       which made some rows inaccessible using a primary key lookup
       if the two hash maps had incompatible definitions.
       To keep this situation from occurring, any ALTER TABLE that
       entails a hashmap change now triggers a reorganisation of the
       table. In addition, when copying a table definition in such
       cases, the hashmap is now also copied. (Bug #18436558)

     * When certain queries generated signals having more than 18
       data words prior to a node failure, such signals were not
       written correctly in the trace file. (Bug #18419554)

     * The ServerPort and TcpBind_INADDR_ANY configuration parameters
       were not included in the output of ndb_mgmd
       --print-full-config. (Bug #18366909)

     * After dropping an NDB table, neither the cluster log nor the
       output of the REPORT MemoryUsage command showed that the
       IndexMemory used by that table had been freed, even though the
       memory had in fact been deallocated. This issue was introduced
       in MySQL Cluster NDB 7.3.2. (Bug #18296810)

     * -DWITH_NDBMTD=0 did not function correctly, which could cause
       the build to fail on platforms such as ARM and Raspberry Pi
       which do not define the memory barrier functions required to
       compile ndbmtd. (Bug #18267919)
       References: See also Bug #16620938.

     * ndb_show_tables sometimes failed with the error message Unable
       to connect to management server and immediately terminated,
       without providing the underlying reason for the failure. To
       provide more useful information in such cases, this program
       now also prints the most recent error from the
       Ndb_cluster_connection object used to instantiate the
       connection. (Bug #18276327)

     * The block threads managed by the multi-threading scheduler
       communicate by placing signals in an out queue or job buffer
       which is set up between all block threads. This queue has a
       fixed maximum size, such that when it is filled up, the worker
       thread must wait for the consumer to drain the queue. In a
       highly loaded system, multiple threads could end up in a
       circular wait lock due to full out buffers, such that they
       were preventing each other from performing any useful work.
       This condition eventually led to the data node being declared
       dead and killed by the watchdog timer.
       To fix this problem, we detect situations in which a circular
       wait lock is about to begin, and cause buffers which are
       otherwise held in reserve to become available for signal
       processing by queues which are highly loaded. (Bug #18229003)

     * The ndb_mgm client START BACKUP command (see Commands in the
       MySQL Cluster Management Client
      (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-cluster-mgm-clie
      nt-commands.html)) could experience occasional random failures
       when a ping was received prior to an expected BackupCompleted
       event. Now the connection established by this command is not
       checked until it has been properly set up. (Bug #18165088)

     * An issue found when compiling the MySQL Cluster software for
       Solaris platforms could lead to problems when using
       ThreadConfig on such systems. (Bug #18181656)

     * When creating a table with foreign key referencing an index in
       another table, it sometimes appeared possible to create the
       foreign key even if the order of the columns in the indexes
       did not match, due to the fact that an appropriate error was
       not always returned internally. This fix improves the error
       used internally to work in most cases; however, it is still
       possible for this situation to occur in the event that the
       parent index is a unique index. (Bug #18094360)

     * Updating parent tables of foreign keys used excessive scan
       resources and so required unusually high settings for
       MaxNoOfLocalScans and MaxNoOfConcurrentScans. (Bug #18082045)

     * Dropping a nonexistent foreign key on an NDB table (using, for
       example, ALTER TABLE) appeared to succeed. Now in such cases,
       the statement fails with a relevant error message, as
       expected. (Bug #17232212)

     * Data nodes running ndbmtd could stall while performing an
       online upgrade of a MySQL Cluster containing a great many
       tables from a version prior to NDB 7.2.5 to version 7.2.5 or
       later. (Bug #16693068)

     * Replication: Log rotation events could cause
       group_relay_log_pos to be moved forward incorrectly within a
       group. This meant that, when the transaction was retried, or
       if the SQL thread was stopped in the middle of a transaction
       following one or more log rotations (such that the transaction
       or group spanned multiple relay log files), part or all of the
       group was silently skipped.
       This issue has been addressed by correcting a problem in the
       logic used to avoid touching the coordinates of the SQL thread
       when updating the log position as part of a relay log rotation
       whereby it was possible to update the SQL thread's coordinates
       when not using a multi-threaded slave, even in the middle of a
       group. (Bug #18482854)

     * Cluster Replication: A slave in MySQL Cluster Replication now
       monitors the progression of epoch numbers received from its
       immediate upstream master, which can both serve as a useful
       check on the low-level functioning of replication, and provide
       a warning in the event replication is restarted accidentally
       at an already-applied position.
       As a result of this enhancement, an epoch ID collision has the
       following results, depending on the state of the slave SQL
       thread:

          + Following a RESET SLAVE statement, no action is taken, in
            order to allow the execution of this statement without
            spurious warnings.

          + Following START SLAVE, a warning is produced that the
            slave is being positioned at an epoch that has already
            been applied.

          + In all other cases, the slave SQL thread is stopped
            against the possibility that a system malfunction has
            resulted in the re-application of an existing epoch.
            (Bug #17461576)
            References: See also Bug #17369118.

     * Cluster API: When an NDB API client application received a
       signal with an invalid block or signal number, NDB provided
       only a very brief error message that did not accurately convey
       the nature of the problem. Now in such cases, appropriate
       printouts are provided when a bad signal or message is
       detected. In addition, the message length is now checked to
       make certain that it matches the size of the embedded signal.
       (Bug #18426180)

     * Cluster API: Refactoring that was performed in MySQL Cluster
       NDB 7.3.4 inadvertently introduced a dependency in Ndb.hpp on
       a file that is not included in the distribution, which caused
       NDB API applications to fail to compile. The dependency has
       been removed. (Bug #18293112, Bug #71803)
       References: This bug was introduced by Bug #17647637.

     * Cluster API: An NDB API application sends a scan query to a
       data node; the scan is processed by the transaction
       coordinator (TC). The TC forwards a LQHKEYREQ request to the
       appropriate LDM, and aborts the transaction if it does not
       receive a LQHKEYCONF response within the specified time limit.
       After the transaction is successfully aborted, the TC sends a
       TCROLLBACKREP to the NDBAPI client, and the NDB API client
       processes this message by cleaning up any Ndb objects
       associated with the transaction.
       The client receives the data which it has requested in the
       form of TRANSID_AI signals, buffered for sending at the data
       node, and may be delivered after a delay. On receiving such a
       signal, NDB checks the transaction state and ID: if these are
       as expected, it processes the signal using the Ndb objects
       associated with that transaction.
       The current bug occurs when all the following conditions are
       fulfilled:

          + The transaction coordinator aborts a transaction due to
            delays and sends a TCROLLBACPREP signal to the client,
            while at the same time a TRANSID_AI which has been
            buffered for delivery at an LDM is delivered to the same
            client.

          + The NDB API client considers the transaction complete on
            receipt of a TCROLLBACKREP signal, and immediately closes
            the transaction.

          + The client has a separate receiver thread running
            concurrently with the thread that is engaged in closing
            the transaction.

          + The arrival of the late TRANSID_AI interleaves with the
            closing of the user thread's transaction such that
            TRANSID_AI processing passes normal checks before
            closeTransaction() resets the transaction state and
            invalidates the receiver.
       When these conditions are all met, the receiver thread
       proceeds to continue working on the TRANSID_AI signal using
       the invalidated receiver. Since the receiver is already
       invalidated, its usage results in a node failure.
       Now the Ndb object cleanup done for TCROLLBACKREP includes
       invalidation of the transaction ID, so that, for a given
       transaction, any signal which is received after the
       TCROLLBACKREP arrives does not pass the transaction ID check
       and is silently dropped. This fix is also implemented for the
       TC_COMMITREF, TCROLLBACKREF, TCKEY_FAILCONF, and TCKEY_FAILREF
       signals as well.
       See also Operations and Signals
      (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/ndbapi/en/ndb-internals-ndb-protocol
      -operations-signals.html), for additional information about
       NDB messaging. (Bug #18196562)

     * Cluster API: The example
       ndbapi-examples/ndbapi_blob_ndbrecord/main.cpp included an
       internal header file (ndb_global.h) not found in the MySQL
       Cluster binary distribution. The example now uses stdlib.h and
       string.h instead of this file. (Bug #18096866, Bug #71409)

     * Cluster API: When Dictionary::dropTable() attempted (as a
       normal part of its internal operations) to drop an index used
       by a foreign key constraint, this led to data node failure.
       Now in such cases, dropTable() drops all foreign keys on the
       table being dropped, whether this table acts as a parent
       table, child table, or both. (Bug #18069680)
       References: See also Bug #17591531.

     * Cluster API: ndb_restore could sometimes report Error 701
       System busy with other schema operation unnecessarily when
       restoring in parallel. (Bug #17916243)


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

 

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