Changes in MySQL NDB Cluster 7.6.33 (5.7.44-ndb-7.6.33) (2025-01-22, General Availability)

MySQL NDB Cluster 7.6.33 is a new release of NDB 7.6, based on MySQL Server 5.7 and including features in version 7.6 of the NDB storage engine, as well as fixing recently discovered bugs in previous NDB Cluster releases.

Obtaining NDB Cluster 7.6.  NDB Cluster 7.6 source code and binaries can be obtained from https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/.

For an overview of changes made in NDB Cluster 7.6, see What is New in NDB Cluster 7.6.

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

• Bugs Fixed

Compilation Notes

• Added CONTRIBUTING.md and SECURITY.md files to the MySQL sources to conform to Oracle's Open Source guidelines. (Bug #36998165)

Bugs Fixed

• InnoDB: An assertion failure was raised when creating a FULLTEXT index on a table with an FTS_DOC_ID value greater than 4294967295. (Bug #36879147)

  References: See also: Bug #37387224.

• NDB Cluster APIs: Removed known causes of API node versus data node state misalignments, and improved the handling of state misalignments when detected. In one such case, separate handling of scan errors in the NDB kernel and those originating in API programs led to cleanup not being performed after some scans. Handling of DBTC and API state alignment errors has been improved by this set of fixes, as well as scan protocol timeout handling in DBSPJ; now, when such misalignments in state are detected, the involved API nodes are disconnected rather than the data node detecting it being forced to shut down. (Bug #20430083, Bug #22782511, Bug #23528433, Bug #28505289, Bug #36273474, Bug #36395384, Bug #36838756, Bug #37022773, Bug #37022901, Bug #37023549)

  References: See also: Bug #22782511, Bug #23528433, Bug #36273474, Bug #36395384, Bug #36838756.

• ndbinfo Information Database: At table create and drop time, access of ndbinfo tables such as operations_per_fragment and memory_per_fragment sometimes examined data which was not valid.

  To fix this, during scans of these ndbinfo tables, we ignore any fragments from tables in transient states at such times due to being created or dropped. (Bug #37140331)

• In some cases, the occurrence of node failures during shutdown led to the cluster becoming unrecoverable without manual intervention.

  We fix this by modifying global checkpoint ID (GCI) information propagation (CopyGCI mechanism) to reject propagation of any set of GCI information which does not describe the ability to recover the cluster automatically as part of a system restart. (Bug #37163647)

  References: See also: Bug #37162636.

• In some cases, node failures during an otherwise graceful shutdown could lead to a cluster becoming unrecoverable without manual intervention. This fix modifies the generic GCI info propagation mechanism (CopyGCI) to reject propagating any set of GCI information which does not describe the ability to recover a cluster automatically. (Bug #37162636)

• AppArmor denied access to /proc/$pid/task/$thread_id/mem, a file required to generate a stack trace. (Bug #37063288)

  References: See also: Bug #37387034.

• In cases where NDB experienced an API protocol timeout when attempting to close a scan operation, it considered the DBTC ApiConnectRecord involved to be lost for further use, at least until the API disconnected and API failure handling within DBTC reclaimed the record.

  This has been improved by having the API send a TCRELEASEREQ signal to DBTC in such cases, performing API failure handling for a single ApiConnectRecord within DBTC. (Bug #37023661)

  References: See also: Bug #36273474, Bug #36395384, Bug #37022773, Bug #37022901, Bug #37023549.

• Improved the internal function my_print_help(). (Bug #36615714)

  References: See also: Bug #37387224.

• A subquery containing an aggregate function WITH ROLLUP which was part of a row value comparator was not always processed correctly. (Bug #36593235)

  References: See also: Bug #37387180. This issue is a regression of: Bug #30969045, Bug #30921780, Bug #26227613, Bug #29134467, Bug #30967158.

• Testing revealed that a fix for a previous issue which added a check of the ApiConnectRecord failure number against the system's current failure number did not initialize the ApiConnectRecord failure number in all cases. (Bug #36155195)

  References: This issue is a regression of: Bug #36028828.