RHEA-2015:1059 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

New rh-mysql56 packages are now available as part of Red Hat Software
Collections 2.0 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Description

MySQL is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. It consists of the
MySQL server daemon, mysqld, and many client programs.

This enhancement update adds the rh-mysql56 packages to Red Hat Software
Collections 2.0. MySQL 5.6.24, included in the rh-mysql56 Software Collection,
provides a number of bug fixes, performance improvements, and enhancements over
the version shipped in Red Hat Software Collections 1. Among others:

• Parallel replication, which enables MySQL to execute queries on the slave in

parallel

• Global transaction ID, which allows to easily change a slave server to connect

to and a master server to replicate from; the state of the slave is recorded in
a crash-safe way

• InnoDB memcached plug-in, which enables direct access to InnoDB tables using

the memcached protocol and client libraries

• New NoSQL-style memcached APIs
• Optimizer improvements for all-around query performance
• Partitioning improvements for querying and managing huge tables
• Improved performance monitoring using the Performance Schema.

(BZ#1167838)

All users who require rh-mysql56 are advised to install these new packages.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant
to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1090791 - testsuite - Check of testcase failed for: rpl.rpl_heartbeat_basic
• BZ - 1102698 - Change provides/requires filtering to work with newer scl-utils
• BZ - 1148798 - incorrectly defined rhel macro in README
• BZ - 1172411 - mysql_config provides a bad library path for building client applications
• BZ - 1194611 - the 'test' database is no longer provided by default
• BZ - 1194613 - wrong configfile location processed
• BZ - 1194619 - can't run testsuite - could not find any of ...charsets
• BZ - 1194699 - trying to start service as unprivileged user isn't denied properly
• BZ - 1195782 - regression of bug 1037650 due to wrong selinux context
• BZ - 1200052 - Rebuilds based on 'scls' directory removal
• BZ - 1202016 - missing features when mysql using external libedit

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)