Changes in MySQL NDB Cluster 7.3.18 (5.6.37-ndb-7.3.18) (2017-07-18, General Availability)

MySQL NDB Cluster 7.3.18 is a new release of NDB Cluster, based on MySQL Server 5.6 and including features from version 7.3 of the NDB storage engine, as well as fixing a number of recently discovered bugs in previous NDB Cluster releases.

Obtaining MySQL NDB Cluster 7.3.  MySQL NDB Cluster 7.3 source code and binaries can be obtained from https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/.

For an overview of changes made in MySQL NDB Cluster 7.3, see What is New in NDB Cluster 7.3.

This release also incorporates all bug fixes and changes made in previous NDB Cluster releases, as well as all bug fixes and feature changes which were added in mainline MySQL 5.6 through MySQL 5.6.37 (see Changes in MySQL 5.6.37 (2017-07-17, General Availability)).

• Functionality Added or Changed

• Bugs Fixed

Functionality Added or Changed

• Important Change; MySQL NDB ClusterJ: The ClusterJPA plugin for OpenJPA is no longer supported by NDB Cluster, and has been removed from the distribution. (Bug #23563810)

Bugs Fixed

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

• MySQL NDB ClusterJ: Compilation for the tests for NDB JTie failed. It was due to how null references were handled, which has been corrected by this fix. (Bug #26080804)

• 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)

• 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.

• 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)

• 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)