MySQL Cluster 7.4.16 has been released

Prashant Tekriwal <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Jul 2017 01:13:34 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mysql.general,gmane.comp.db.mysql.packagers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dear MySQL Users,

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

   - In-Memory storage - Real-time performance
   - Transparent Auto-Sharding - Read & write scalability
   - Active-Active/Multi-Master geographic replication
   - 99.999% High Availability with no single point of failure
     and on-line maintenance
   - NoSQL and SQL APIs (including C++, Java, http, Memcached
     and JavaScript/Node.js)

MySQL Cluster 7.4 makes significant advances in performance;
operational efficiency (such as enhanced reporting and faster restarts
and upgrades) and conflict detection and resolution for active-active
replication between MySQL Clusters.

MySQL Cluster 7.4.16 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/7.4/en/index.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 !

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Changes in MySQL NDB Cluster 7.4.16 (5.6.37-ndb-7.4.16) (2017-07-18)

    MySQL NDB Cluster 7.4.16 is a new release of MySQL NDB
    Cluster 7.4, based on MySQL Server 5.6 and including features
    in version 7.4 of the NDB storage engine, as well as fixing
    recently discovered bugs in previous NDB Cluster releases.

    Obtaining MySQL NDB Cluster 7.4.  MySQL NDB Cluster 7.4
    source code and binaries can be obtained from
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/.

    For an overview of changes made in MySQL NDB Cluster 7.4, see
    What is New in NDB Cluster 7.4
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-cluster-what-is-new-7-4.html). 


    This release also incorporates all bugfixes and changes made
    in previous NDB Cluster releases, as well as all bugfixes and
    feature changes which were added in mainline MySQL 5.6
    through MySQL 5.6.37 (see Changes in MySQL 5.6.37 (Not yet
    released, General Availability)
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-37.html)).

      * Functionality Added or Changed

      * Bugs Fixed

    Functionality Added or Changed

      * NDB Replication: Added the --ndb-log-update-minimal
        option for logging by mysqld. This option causes only
        primary key values to be written in the before image, and
        only changed columns in the after image. (Bug #24438868)

      * Added the --diff-default option for ndb_config. This
        option causes the program to print only those parameters
        having values that differ from their defaults. (Bug
        #85831, Bug #25844166)

      * Added the --query-all option to ndb_config. This option
        acts much like the --query option except that --query-all
        (short form: -a) dumps configuration information for all
        attributes at one time. (Bug #60095, Bug #11766869)

    Bugs Fixed

      * NDB Replication: Added a check to stop an NDB replication
        slave when configuration as a multi-threaded slave is
        detected (for example, if slave_parallel_workers is set
        to a nonzero value). (Bug #21074209)

      * NDB Cluster APIs: The implementation method
        NdbDictionary::NdbTableImpl::getColumn(), used from many
        places in the NDB API where a column is referenced by
        name, has been made more efficient. This method used a
        linear search of an array of columns to find the correct
        column object, which could be inefficient for tables with
        many columns, and was detected as a significant use of
        CPU in customer applications. (Ideally, users should
        perform name-to-column object mapping, and then use
        column IDs or objects in method calls, but in practice
        this is not always done.) A less costly hash index
        implementation, used previously for the name lookup, is
        reinstated for tables having relatively many columns. (A
        linear search continues to be used for tables having
        fewer columns, where the difference in performance is
        neglible.) (Bug #24829435)

      * MySQL NDB ClusterJ: The JTie and NDB JTie tests were
        skipped when the unit tests for ClusterJ were being run.
        (Bug #26088583)

      * Backup .log files contained log entries for one or more
        extra fragments, due to an issue with filtering out
        changes logged by other nodes in the same node group.
        This resulted in a larger .log file and thus use of more
        resources than necessary; it could also cause problems
        when restoring, since backups from different nodes could
        interfere with one another while the log was being
        applied. (Bug #25891014)

      * When making the final write to a redo log file, it is
        expected that the next log file is already opened for
        writes, but this was not always the case with a slow
        disk, leading to node failure. Now in such cases NDB
        waits for the next file to be opened properly before
        attempting to write to it. (Bug #25806659)

      * Data node threads can be bound to a single CPU or a set
        of CPUs, a set of CPUs being represented internally by
        NDB as a SparseBitmask. When attempting to lock to a set
        of CPUs, CPU usage was excessive due to the fact that the
        routine performing the locks used the
        mt_thr_config.cpp::do_bind() method, which looks for bits
        that are set over the entire theoretical range of the
        SparseBitmask (2^32-2, or 4294967294). This is fixed by
        using SparseBitmask::getBitNo(), which can be used to
        iterate over only those bits that are actually set,
        instead. (Bug #25799506)

      * A bulk update is executed by reading records and
        executing a transaction on the set of records, which is
        started while reading them. When transaction
        initialization failed, the transaction executor function
        was subsequently unaware that this had occurred, leading
        to SQL node failures. This issue is fixed by providing
        appropriate error handling when attempting to initialize
        the transaction. (Bug #25476474)
        References: See also: Bug #20092754.

      * Setting NoOfFragmentLogParts such that there were more
        than 4 redo log parts per local data manager led to
        resource exhaustion and subsequent multiple data node
        failures. Since this is an invalid configuration, a check
        has been added to detect a configuration with more than 4
        redo log parts per LDM, and reject it as invalid. (Bug
        #25333414)

      * Execution of an online ALTER TABLE ... REORGANIZE
        PARTITION statement on an NDB table having a primary key
        whose length was greater than 80 bytes led to restarting
        of data nodes, causing the reorganization to fail. (Bug
        #25152165)

      * Error 240 is raised when there is a mismatch between
        foreign key trigger columns and the values supplied to
        them during trigger execution, but had no error message
        indicating the source of the problem. (Bug #23141739)
        References: See also: Bug #23068914, Bug #85857.

      * If the number of LDM blocks was not evenly divisible by
        the number of TC/SPJ blocks, SPJ requests were not
        equally distributed over the available SPJ instances. Now
        a round-robin distribution is used to distribute SPJ
        requests across all available SPJ instances more
        effectively.
        As part of this work, a number of unused member variables
        have been removed from the class Dbtc. (Bug #22627519)

      * ALTER TABLE .. MAX_ROWS=0 can now be performed only by
        using a copying ALTER TABLE statement. Resetting MAX_ROWS
        to 0 can no longer be performed using ALGORITHM=INPLACE
        or the ONLINE keyword. (Bug #21960004)

      * During a system restart, when a node failed due to having
        missed sending heartbeats, all other nodes reported only
        that another node had failed without any additional
        information. Now in such cases, the fact that heartbeats
        were missed and the ID of the node that failed to send
        heartbeats is reported in both the error log and the data
        node log. (Bug #21576576)

      * The planned shutdown of an NDB Cluster having more than
        10 data nodes was not always performed gracefully. (Bug
        #20607730)

      * Due to a previous issue with unclear separation between
        the optimize and execute phases when a query involved a
        GROUP BY, the join-pushable evaluator was not sure
        whether its optimized query execution plan was in fact
        pushable. For this reason, such grouped joins were always
        considered not pushable. It has been determined that the
        separation issue has been resolved by work already done
        in MySQL 5.6, and so we now remove this limitation. (Bug
        #86623, Bug #26239591)

      * When deleting all rows from a table immediately followed
        by DROP TABLE, it was possible that the shrinking of the
        DBACC hash index was not ready prior to the drop. This
        shrinking is a per-fragment operation that does not check
        the state of the table. When a table is dropped, DBACC
        releases resources, during which the description of the
        fragment size and page directory is not consistent; this
        could lead to reads of stale pages, and undefined
        behavior.
        Inserting a great many rows followed by dropping the
        table should also have had such effects due to expansion
        of the hash index.
        To fix this problem we make sure, when a fragment is
        about to be released, that there are no pending expansion
        or shrinkage operations on this fragment. (Bug #86449,
        Bug #26138592)

      * The internal function execute_signals() in mt.cpp read
        three section pointers from the signal even when none was
        passed to it. This was mostly harmless, although
        unneeded. When the signal read was the last one on the
        last page in the job buffer, and the next page in memory
        was not mapped or otherwise accessible, ndbmtd failed
        with an error. To keep this from occurring, this function
        now only reads section pointers that are actually passed
        to it. (Bug #86354, Bug #26092639)

      * The ndb_show_tables program --unqualified option did not
        work correctly when set to 0 (false); this should disable
        the option and so cause fully qualified table and index
        names to be printed in the output. (Bug #86017, Bug
        #25923164)

      * When an NDB table with foreign key constraints is
        created, its indexes are created first, and then, during
        foreign key creation, these indexes are loaded into the
        NDB dictionary cache. When a CREATE TABLE statement
        failed due to an issue relating to foreign keys, the
        indexes already in the cache were not invalidated. This
        meant that any subsequent CREATE TABLE with any indexes
        having the same names as those in the failed statement
        produced inconsistent results. Now, in such cases, any
        indexes named in the failed CREATE TABLE are immediately
        invalidated from the cache. (Bug #85917, Bug #25882950)

      * Attempting to execute ALTER TABLE ... ADD FOREIGN KEY
        when the key to be added had the name of an existing
        foreign key on the same table failed with the wrong error
        message. (Bug #85857, Bug #23068914)

      * The node internal scheduler (in mt.cpp) collects
        statistics about its own progress and any outstanding
        work it is performing. One such statistic is the number
        of outstanding send bytes, collected in
        send_buffer::m_node_total_send_buffer_size. This
        information may later be used by the send thread
        scheduler, which uses it as a metric to tune its own send
        performance versus latency.
        In order to reduce lock contention on the internal send
        buffers, they are split into two thr_send_buffer parts,
        m_buffer and m_sending, each protected by its own mutex,
        and their combined size repesented by
        m_node_total_send_buffer_size.
        Investigation of the code revealed that there was no
        consistency as to which mutex was used to update
        m_node_total_send_buffer_size, with the result that there
        was no consurrency protection for this value. To avoid
        this, m_node_total_send_buffer_size is replaced with two
        values, m_buffered_size and m_sending_size, which keep
        separate track of the sizes of the two buffers. These
        counters are updated under the protection of two
        different mutexes protecting each buffer individually,
        and are now added together to obtain the total size.
        With concurrency control established, updates of the
        partial counts should now be correct, so that their
        combined value no longer accumulates errors over time.
        (Bug #85687, Bug #25800933)

      * Dropped TRANS_AI signals that used the long signal format
        were not handled by the DBTC kernel block. (Bug #85606,
        Bug #25777337)
        References: See also: Bug #85519, Bug #27540805.

      * To prevent a scan from returning more rows, bytes, or
        both than the client has reserved buffers for, the DBTUP
        kernel block reports the size of the TRANSID_AI it has
        sent to the client in the TUPKEYCONF signal it sends to
        the requesting DBLQH block. DBLQH is aware of the maximum
        batch size available for the result set, and terminates
        the scan batch if this has been exceeded.
        The DBSPJ block's FLUSH_AI attribute allows DBTUP to
        produce two TRANSID_AI results from the same row, one for
        the client, and one for DBSPJ, which is needed for key
        lookups on the joined tables. The size of both of these
        were added to the read length reported by the DBTUP
        block, which caused the controlling DBLQH block to
        believe that it had consumed more of the available
        maximum batch size than was actually the case, leading to
        premature termination of the scan batch which could have
        a negative impact on performance of SPJ scans. To correct
        this, only the actual read length part of an API request
        is now reported in such cases. (Bug #85408, Bug
        #25702850)

      * When compiling the NDB kernel with gcc version 6.0.0 or
        later, it is now built using -flifetime-dse=1. (Bug
        #85381, Bug #25690926)

On Behalf of Oracle MySQL Release Engineering Team
Prashant Tekriwal