MySQL Cluster Manager 1.3.4 has been released

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Cluster Manager 1.3.4, has been released and 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
  - 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 1.3.4 is 
listed below:

Changes in MySQL Cluster Manager 1.3.4     ( 2015-02-26 )

    This section documents all changes and bug fixes that have
    been applied in MySQL Cluster Manager 1.3.4 since the release
    of MySQL Cluster Manager version 1.3.3.

    Functionality Added or Changed

      * Client: The configuration files for maintaining the MySQL
        configuration options have been cleaned up and
        consolidated. Users will find fewer *_configdef_*.xml
        files under the var folder in the mcm installation
        directory and will see corrections to some minor problems
        with the handling of some of the options by mcm. (Bug
        #20318036)

      * Client: Support for a number of ndb_restore options have
        been added to the restore cluster command. See The
        restart cluster Command
        (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-cluster-manager/1.3/en/mc 
<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-cluster-manager/1.3/en/mcm-restart-cluster.html>
m-restart-cluster.html 
<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-cluster-manager/1.3/en/mcm-restart-cluster.html>) 
for details. (Bug #20310081)

      * Client: The restriction against manually assigning a node
        ID smaller than 49 to a process other than a data node
        with the create cluster or add process command has now
        been lifted. Note that, however, users are still
        recommended to follow the best practice of reserving node
        ID 1 to 48 for data nodes, which cannot take up a node ID
        larger than 48. (Bug #20284278, Bug #75331)

      * Client: A warning is now written to the agent log file
        (mcmd.log) when users try to set a deprecated
        configuration variable. (Bug #20242779)

      * Client: A new command, show settings, has been added for
        showing the current values of a number of mcmd options.
        (Bug #20102394)

      * Client: When listing options for a specific mcm command
        using the --help option, options already listed under
        "Required options" are no longer repeated under "Valid
        options." (Bug #19910130)

      * Client: Process lists resulting from commands like list
        processes, create cluster -v, add process -v and show
        status --process are now sorted first by process type,
        and then by node ID. Before, it was sorted by the order
        in which the processes were created. (Bug #19881161)

      * Client: MySQL Cluster Manager now fully supports multiple
        entries for replication attributes that accept more than
        one value (for example, replicate_ignore_table,
        replicate_ignore_db, and replicate_do_table); see
        descriptions for the get and reset commands for details.
        (Bug #19845790)

      * Client: For the mcm configuration commands (get, set, and
        reset), the process name can now be omitted from the
        filter specification list. For example, "get
        DataMemory::2 mycluster" is now a valid command. (Bug
        #19035112, Bug #73063)

      * Client: [For Unix-like platforms only] To separate
        history logging for the mcm and the mysql clients, the
        mcm client history is now logged, by default, into the
        .mcm_history file under the home directory of the user
        who runs mcm. To change the default file path for the log
        file, set the environment variable MCM_HISTFILE with the
        desired value before starting mcm. (Bug #18186455)

      * Client: The new show warnings command allows you to check
        for any warning that has been issued to the agent log
        (mcmd.log) for the last command you entered to the mcm
        client. (Bug #16633542)

      * Client: When setting a dynamic attribute for a mysqld
        node, mcmd no long restarts the node immediately, but
        sends a SET GLOBAL statement to apply the new value to
        the mysqld node, and also saves the value to the mysqld
        configuration file in order to have the value applied
        again at the next restart of the mysqld node. (Bug
        #16633542)

      * Client: When referring to cluster attributes in an mcm
        configuration command (get, reset. or set), dashes ("-")
        and underscores ("_") can now be used interchangeably
        within attribute names. For example, "set
        ndb-cluster-connection-pool:mysqld=12 mycluster" now
        works the same as "set
        ndb_cluster_connection_pool:mysqld=12 mycluster," while
        only the latter was accepted before. (Bug #11761809, Bug
        #54335)

    Bugs Fixed

      * Agent: After recovering from a failed cluster upgrade,
        the agent reported on the show status --process list the
        wrong package name for the mysqld processes, which did
        not reflect the package that would be used for the
        subsequent restart. (Bug #20482379)

      * Agent: After an agent recovered itself from a failure, it
        might wrongly reported the status of the cluster node.
        This fix makes sure the correct node status is detected
        and reported. (Bug #20430481)

      * Agent: The dropping or recreating of a node group that
        took place when adding data nodes could sometimes fail
        when, for example, the nodes were not added in the
        sequential order of the node groups. This fix relaxes the
        assertion for node group consistency in the code that
        caused the failure. (Bug #20104357)

      * Agent: After stopping an ndbd process that had never been
        started before, adding a new ndbd process and stopping it
        resulted in an internal error. (Bug #20092204)

      * Agent: When an agent restarted and attempted to reconnect
        to other site members, one of the contacted agents might
        end up failing with an XCOM error. This was due to a
        too-strict assertion regarding the XCOM version
        requirement, which has been removed by this fix. (Bug
        #19414104)

      * Agent: When an agent on a cluster host replied to another
        host's enquiry for a list of backups, at the end of its
        reply, it also sent a critical warning on the network
        connection. This fix stops the warning by having the
        agent perform a proper reset for its network connection.
        (Bug #19209223)

      * Agent: An internal error occurred when the argument for
        LogDestination contains a semicolon (:), which is common
        for Windows file paths. With this fix, mcmd can now
        handle appropriately the disk designators in Windows file
        paths. (Bug #19193738)

      * Agent: After issuing an import config command, file paths
        in Windows format in the cluster configuration files got
        changed into Unix format. (Bug #19053590)

      * Client: A cluster upgrade sometimes failed because not
        all the agents load the configuration definition for the
        package early, causing the agents to go out-of-sync with
        each other with respect to the reconfiguration plan. This
        fix forces all the agents to load the configuration
        definition before sending out the status update that
        indicates completion of the reconfiguration. (Bug
        #20469039)

      * Client: Out-of-range values for the attribute
        binlog_cache_size used by in set command were not
        rejected by mcm, which caused an error when the cluster
        was being started. This fix corrected the faulty boundary
        test on the attribute. (Bug #20351340)

      * Client: When the upgrade cluster command used the package
        that MySQL Cluster Manager was already using, the upgrade
        process failed. With this fix, mcm first checks the
        package version before starting any upgrade process and
        throws an error in the described situation. (Bug
        #20144280)

      * Client: If a stop cluster command was issued right after
        a restart cluster command had been issued by another
        client and was still running, the restart cluster command
        would fail. With this fix,the two commands are now
        carried out successfully in the order they are issued.
        (Bug #19125493)

You can also find more information on the contents of this release in
the change log:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql-cluster-manager/1.3/en/mcm-news-1-3-4.html

The user manual can be found at:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/index-cluster.html

Your feedback is greatly appreciated!

Please report any problems you have at https://bug.oraclecorp.com/

Enjoy!

On Behalf of the MySQL/ORACLE RE Team,
Sreedhar S