Announcing: MySQL Utilities release-1.6.4 GA

The MySQL Utilities Team is pleased to announce a new GA release of MySQL Utilities. This release includes a number of improvements for usability, stability, and a few enhancements for better compatibility with MySQL 5.7. A complete list of all improvements can be found in our release notes.

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