This is a bugfix release, fixing recently discovered bugs in the previous MySQL Cluster NDB 6.2 release.
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 all bugfixes and changes made in previous MySQL Cluster NDB 6.2 releases, as well as all bugfixes and feature changes which were added in mainline MySQL 5.1 through MySQL 5.1.18 (see Changes in MySQL 5.1.18 (2007-05-08)).
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
Added the mysqld option
--ndb-cluster-connection-pool that enables a
single MySQL server to use multiple connections to the cluster.
This enables scaling out using multiple MySQL clients per SQL
node instead of or in addition to using multiple SQL nodes with
the cluster.
For more information about this option, see MySQL Server Options and Variables for MySQL Cluster.
New cluster management client DUMP commands
were added to aid in tracking transactions, scan operations, and
locks. See DUMP 2350,
DUMP 2352, and
DUMP 2550, for more
information.