Changes in MySQL NDB Cluster 7.5.33 (5.7.44-ndb-7.5.33) (2024-01-16, General Availability)

MySQL NDB Cluster 7.5.33 is a new release of MySQL NDB Cluster 7.5, based on MySQL Server 5.7 and including features in version 7.5 of the NDB storage engine, as well as fixing recently discovered bugs in previous NDB Cluster releases.

Obtaining MySQL NDB Cluster 7.5.  MySQL NDB Cluster 7.5 source code and binaries can be obtained from https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/.

For an overview of changes made in MySQL NDB Cluster 7.5, see What is New in NDB Cluster 7.5.

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 5.7 through MySQL 5.7.44 (see Changes in MySQL 5.7.44 (2023-10-25, General Availability)).

• Compilation Notes

• Pluggable Authentication

• Bugs Fixed

Compilation Notes

• Microsoft Windows: NDB Cluster did not compile correctly using Visual Studio 2022. (Bug #35967676)

Pluggable Authentication

• Beginning with this release, the behavior of the AUTHENTICATION_PAM_LOG environment variable used in debugging the PAM authentication plugin is changed as follows:

  • Setting AUTHENTICATION_PAM_LOG to an arbitrary value (except as noted in the next item) no longer includes passwords in its diagnostic messages.

  • To include passwords in the diagnostic messages, set AUTHENTICATION_PAM_LOG=PAM_LOG_WITH_SECRET_INFO.

  For more information, see PAM Authentication Debugging. (Bug #74313, Bug #20042010)

Bugs Fixed

• In limited cases, passing data to the MD5() encryption function could halt the server. (Bug #35764496)