Many Improvements!
This release represents a stable release of the product and is a significant improvement from the 1.5 release. Along with defect patches, we also include the following enhancements.
- Support for MySQL 5.7
- New! Binlog Utilities:
- mysqlbinlogpurge - purge old binary logs
- mysqlbinlogrotate - rotate the binary log
- mysqlbinlogmove - relocate binary log files
- New! Replication Utilities:
- mysqlslavetrx - skip transactions on one or more slaves to solve errant transactions and consistency error
- New! General Utilities:
- mysqlgrants - show grants for users
- Improved functionality of --exclude option with SQL wildcards
- Improved packaging in RPM and Windows distributions
- Improved accuracy of calculated disk usage for mysqldiskusage
- Improved packaging in RPM and Windows distributions
- Improved output for mysqldbcompare and mysqldiff
- Improved SSL support
- The Replication utilities have undergone a number of improvements for new 5.7 features as well as quality and usability improvements.
- The documentation has been improved including more descriptions of SSL connections and clarification of replication commands.
- Finally, this release contains a host of minor improvements for quality and robustness
How Can I Download MySQL Utilities?
You can download MySQL Utilities 1.6.4 GA from the following link using one of the pre-built installation repositories including a source download.
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/utilities/
Where is the Documentation?
You can find online documentation for MySQL Utilities version 1.6 at:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/index-utils-fabric.html
