This is the first MySQL Cluster NDB 6.2 development release,
based on version 6.2 of the
NDBCLUSTER storage engine.
Obtaining MySQL Cluster NDB 6.2. You can download the latest MySQL Cluster NDB 6.2 source code and binaries for supported platforms from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/.
This Beta release incorporates bugfixes and changes made in previous MySQL Cluster releases, as well as all bugfixes and feature changes which were added in mainline MySQL 5.1 through MySQL 5.1.16 (see Changes in MySQL 5.1.16 (2007-02-26)).
Please refer to our bug database at http://bugs.mysql.com/ for more details about the individual bugs fixed in this version.
Functionality Added or Changed
An --ndb-wait-connected option
has been added for mysqld. When used, it
causes mysqld wait a specified amount of time
to be connected to the cluster before accepting client
connections.
Cluster API:
It is now possible to iterate over all existing
NDB objects using three new methods
of the Ndb_cluster_connection
class:
Cluster API:
The Ndb::startTransaction()
method now provides an alternative interface for starting a
transaction.
Memory allocation has been improved on 32-bit architectures that
enables using close to 3GB for
DataMemory and
IndexMemory combined.
A new TcpBind_INADDR_ANY configuration
parameter enables data nodes node to bind
INADDR_ANY instead of a host name or IP
address in the config.ini file.
It is now possible to disable arbitration by setting
ArbitrationRank equal to 0
on all nodes.