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MySQL Cluster Manager 1.4.7 has been released
Posted by: Surabhi Bhat
Date: December 14, 2018 11:38AM



Dear MySQL Users,

MySQL Cluster Manager 1.4.7 can be downloaded from
the My Oracle Support (MOS) website. It will also be available
on Oracle Software Delivery Cloud at http://edelivery.oracle.com  with
the next monthly update

MySQL Cluster Manager is an optional component of the MySQL Cluster Carrier
Grade Edition, providing a command-line interface that automates common
management tasks, including the following online operations:
 - Configuring and starting MySQL Cluster
 - Upgrades
 - Adding and removing cluster nodes
 - Adding and removing site hosts
 - Configuration changes
 - Backup and restore

MySQL Cluster Manager is a commercial extension to the MySQL family of products.
More details can be found at 
http://www.mysql.com/products/cluster/mcm/.

A brief summary of changes in MySQL Cluster Manager version 1.4.7 is listed below:

Changes in MySQL Cluster Manager 1.4.7  (2018-12-14)

 * Functionality Added or Changed

 * Bugs Fixed

Functionality Added or Changed


     * Agent: Performance has been improved for the add package
       command by removing unnecessary queries from its
       execution process. (Bug #28950231)

     * Agent: The initialization script for mcmd now cleans up
       the temporary files it creates under the tmp directory while
       starting new mcmd processes. (Bug #28924059)

     * Agent: The list hosts command now returns, in addition to
       Available and Unavailable, two more possible statuses for
       the agent of a host:

          + Recovery: The agent is in the process of recovering
            itself

          + Unresponsive: The agent rejected an attempt to
            connect
       (Bug #28438155)

     * Agent: The option --core-file
       http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-cluster-program-options-common.html#option_ndb_common_core-file,
       when used at the command line to start a node in a wild
       cluster, now causes the import cluster and update process
       commands to give a warning (that the option "may be
       removed on next restart of the process"), instead of
       causing the commands to fail. See Creating and
       Configuring the Target Cluster
       http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-cluster-manager/1.4/en/mcm-using-import-cluster-create-configure.html 
       for details. (Bug #28177366)

     * Agent: The import cluster and update process commands now
       support a new --remove-angel option, which kills any
       angel processes for the data nodes to be imported or
       updated and also updates the data nodes' PID files. See
       descriptions for the two commands for details. (Bug
       #28116279)

     * Agent: The backup cluster command finishes faster now, as
       some unnecessary wait time has been eliminated from the
       backup process. (Bug #27986443)

     * Agent: A new option for mcmd, --initial, allows an agent
       that has fallen into an inconsistent state to recover its
       configuration from other agents. See the description for
       --initial for details. (Bug #20892397)

     * Agent: The set, get, and reset commands now support the
       following command-line-only attributes, which can only be
       configured at the command line when outside MySQL Cluster
       Manager:

          + For ndb_mgmd: --core-file, --log-name, --verbose

          + For ndbd and ndbmtd: --core-file, -- --verbose

     * Agent: The internal mechanism for agent recovery
       http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-cluster-manager/1.4/en/mcm-using-restore-agent.html
       has been improved, making it more robust and less error-prone.

     * Client: To reduce the size of the mcmd log, node events
       are no longer dumped into the log during a cluster
       restart. (Bug #28843656)

     * Client: The message for ERROR 5200 ("Restore cannot be
       performed ...") has been expanded to include the reason
       for the restore's failure. (Bug #25075284)

     * Client: The message for ERROR 5017 has been expanded to
       include the reason for an action being invalid for a
       process or cluster. (Bug #22777846)

Bugs Fixed


     * Agent: During a rolling restart for a cluster (which
       takes place, for example, after a cluster
       reconfiguration), the node group IDs for some data nodes
       might become some invalid numbers transiently, and that
       might cause mcmd to throw an internal error (Error 1003).
       With this fix, such transient changes of node group IDs
       are ignored by mcmd, and no error is thrown. (Bug
       #28949173)

     * Agent: An update process command on a mysqld node failed
       with a timeout if the node was in the status of stopping.
       It was because mcmd did not retry stopping the node, and
       this fix makes it do so in the situation. (Bug #28913525)

     * Agent: After a cluster reconfiguration failed, the
       restart of an mcmd agent that had lost contact with other
       agents might fail with a checksum error. That was because
       in the process, the original configuration for the
       cluster was removed from the agent's repository by
       mistake. With this fix, the original cluster
       configuration was preserved and the agent restarts as
       expected. (Bug #28904775)

     * Agent: When trying to shutdown a mysqld node, if mcmd
       failed to get the MySQL Server's version number through a
       query, the shutdown failed because mcmd could not decide
       on the proper shutdown method. With this fix, mcmd falls
       back on the shutdown method for the MySQL Server version
       bundled with the mcmd version in the MySQL Cluster CGE
       distribution. (Bug #28830884)

     * Agent: Commands to reconfigure or stop a cluster hung
       when a mysqld node did not respond to queries. With this
       fix, under the situation, a query to a mysqld node times
       out after a certain period of time, after which the
       command for reconfiguring or stopping the cluster is
       aborted and an error is returned. (Bug #28813012)

     * Agent: mcmd hung when it failed to stop a data node that
       was in an unknown status. With this fix, the stop process
       command fails with an error in the situation. (Bug
       #28780427)

     * Agent: Attempts to restore an mcmd agent with data from
       other agents
       http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-cluster-manager/1.4/en/mcm-using-restore-agent.html
       failed with the agent remaining in the state of recovering indefinitely,
       when any of the cluster log files was very long. With this
       fix, the agent only scans the most recent segments of the
       logs instead of the full logs for error information,
       which speeds up the restore process and allows it to be
       completed. (Bug #28671584)

     * Agent: In an environment that used only IP addresses, if
       a site was defined using host names, an mcmd agent hung
       at startup or restart when it attempted reverse DNS
       lookups. (Bug #28437469)

     * Agent: The collect logs command sometimes reported
       success before the operation was actually finished if the
       cluster had many hosts and a lot of log data to be
       collected. (Bug #28282932)

     * Agent: mcmd failed to start when its init.d script found
       the previous PID for mcmd was in use by another process,
       which was taken to mean mcmd was already running. With
       this fix, the process name for the PID is also checked,
       so that mcmd is started again if the PID is no longer
       used by mcmd. (Bug #28278727)

     * Agent: The collect log command failed with an ERROR 1003
       Internal error when no data was received on the TCP
       connection established for collecting data from another
       host. With this fix, the connection is closed gracefully
       if no data is received, allowing other hosts to connect
       to the TCP port and send data. (Bug #28278410)

     * Agent: The restore cluster command failed when the
       cluster to be restored contained databases with special
       characters in their names. (Bug #28220549)

     * Agent: Memory leaks occurred when an mcmd process on a
       management node read large cluster logs during its
       operations. This fix makes sure mcmd regularly truncates
       the buffer for log reading, so the buffer size does not
       keep growing in an uncontrolled manner. (Bug #28076545)

     * Agent: On Windows platforms, the collect logs command
       failed with an ERROR 1003 Internal error when the path
       name of a log file to be transferred was exactly 260
       characters. It was because, while 260 is the maximum
       number of characters allowed, the internal test forgot to
       count the trailing zero for the path name in the internal
       buffer, so it failed to catch the error. With this fix,
       mcmd throws an ERROR 106 Path max length exceeded for
       file instead in the situation. (Bug #28062069)

     * Agent: If mcmd was started on Windows platforms with the
       option --log-syslog being true but without specifying the
       --log-file option, running the show settings command
       would cause mcmd to quit with an Error 2013 (Lost
       connection to MySQL server during query). (Bug #27981362)

     * Agent: When, due to some reasons (for example, time jumps
       on virtual machines), an mcmd agent ended up receiving
       incomplete event records from an ndb_mgmd node, the agent
       quit unexpectedly. With this fix, mcmd can now parse and
       handle incomplete records properly. (Bug #25746295)

     * Agent: Agent recovery (for example, after upgrading the
       agents) sometimes failed when the agent received recovery
       configurations both locally and from a remote host, and
       the recovering process was then frustrated, With the new
       recovery mechanism now in place, the recovery
       configuration is only received once. (Bug #25517245)

     * Agent: The create site command failed with a timeout when
       the site to be created had a large number of hosts (more
       than 45), and the hosts were not uniform in their machine
       configurations. (Bug #25075284)

     * Client: In a number of instances where an ndb_mgmd
       command or a mysqld query failed, the wrong error (Error
       1006 or Error 7006) was thrown. With this fix, the 
       appropriate Error 7030 is thrown instead. (Bug #28829732)
 

On Behalf of MySQL Release Engineering team,
Surabhi Bhat

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