Thursday, May 27, 2021

Right Arm for Developers

Oracle Ampere A1 Compute is a high-performance platform combining Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Ampere Altra Arm processors. It provides deterministic performance, proven security, and a broad developer ecosystem that includes popular tools and environments (OS, Kubernetes - OKE , SDKs and CLIs).

Building Applications with OCI Arm compute shapes is free to try, easy to learn, and fast to explore. Developers can count on a broad community of developers and partners including Jenkins, Gitlab, GitHub, NGINX, Rancher and several others. Developers can get started quickly with the Oracle Linux Cloud Developer image.

Few highlights:

  • Available in BM shape of 160 cores, 1TB memory, 2x50Gb/s NW
  • Flexible VM shapes is also available; Pay for what you use for core/memory
  • Full support for Oracle Java, GraalVM, Oracle Linux, and our managed Kubernetes service
  • Full support for your favorite tools on OCI - Github, Gitlab, and Jenkins

Why wait? You can sign up for a free OCI account and spin up Arm resources. For large scale Arm development projects, you can check out our OCI Arm Accelerator program.

Reference:

 Advancing the Future of Cloud with Arm-Based Computing

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

MySQL May 2021 releases

 MySQL Server 8.0.25, new versions of the popular Open Source Database Management System along with different connectors and MySQL NDB Cluster 8.0.25, a high-availability, high-redundancy version of MySQL adapted for the distributed computing environment have been released.

The release notes for the changes in MySQL Server, Cluster, Components and Connectors releases are available below.

Below releases contains no functional changes and is published to align the version number with the MySQL Server 8.0.25 release.

MySQL releases are available for download at:
https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/

Feedback, bug reports, bug fixes, patches welcome at:
http://bugs.mysql.com/report.php

P.S: Server 8.0.25 will be the last release for Debian 9, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 20.10 and Fedora 32 platforms, as they have reached the end of life.

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

MySQL support for Ubuntu 21.04

 Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) was released on April 22, 2021. We have added MySQL support for Ubuntu 21.04 release from day one.

Summary of MySQL products available for Ubuntu 21.04:

  • MySQL Server 8.0.24
  • MySQL NDB Cluster 8.0.24
  • MySQL Shell 8.0.24
  • MySQL Router 8.0.24
  • MySQL Workbench 8.0.24
  • MySQL Connector/C++ 8.0.24
  • MySQL Connector/J 8.0.24
  • MySQL Connector/ODBC 8.0.24
  • MySQL Connector/Python 8.0.24


Users can install the MySQL Ubuntu 21.04 binaries both from our apt repository and by manual download.

To configure the MySQL Apt repository, download the mysql apt config repo setup package from the apt repository landing page.

MySQL Apt repo setup package
MySQL Apt repo setup package


Install the mysql apt repo setup package with

sudo dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.8.17-1_all.deb

...and follow the detailed install instructions on A Quick Guide to Using the MySQL APT Repository


For an overview of what's new in MySQL 8.0, please see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-nutshell.html

We welcome and appreciate your feedback, bug reports, bug fixes, patches, etc.:
http://bugs.mysql.com/report.php


Tuesday, May 4, 2021

MySQL is available for Fedora 34

Fedora 34 was published on April 27th, 2021. We support the latest Fedora 34 release from day one. 

Here is a quick overview of MySQL products that are available from the MySQL repository for Fedora 34:

  • MySQL Server 8.0.24
  • MySQL Shell 8.0.24
  • MySQL Router 8.0.24
  • MySQL Workbench 8.0.24
  • MySQL Connector/C++ 8.0.24
  • MySQL Connector/J 8.0.24
  • MySQL Connector/ODBC 8.0.24
  • MySQL Connector/Python 8.0.24

Above MySQL products are available in source and binary form for Fedora 34 platform from our download pages at

  http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/


Also, MySQL Server, Connectors, and Tools 8.0.24 binaries is available from our Yum repository for Fedora 34, go here for details:

  http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/yum


Download the Fedora 34 repo setup package to enable the official MySQL repos on your system. 


https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/file/?id=504342
Fedora 34 Repo Setup Package

Install the package with

sudo rpm -Uvh mysql80-community-release-fc34-1.noarch.rpm

Please refer the MySQL Yum Repository installation documentation for detailed steps.


For an overview of what's new in MySQL 8.0, please see


We welcome and appreciate your feedback, bug reports, bug fixes, patches, etc.:

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