NDB Cluster 7.6: NDB 7.6.4 and later

NDB Cluster 7.5: NDB 7.5.4 and later

NDB Cluster 7.4: NDB 7.4.6 and later

Online downgrades from NDB 8.0.14 to previous releases are not supported. Tables created in NDB 8.0.14 are not backwards compatible with previous releases. This is due to a change in usage of the extra metadata property implemented by NDB tables to provide full support for the MySQL data dictionary.

For more information, see Changes in NDB table extra metadata. See also Chapter 14, MySQL Data Dictionary.

Distributed privileges shared between MySQL servers as implemented in prior release series (see Distributed Privileges Using Shared Grant Tables) are not supported in NDB Cluster 8.0. When started, the mysqld supplied with NDB 8.0.16 and later checks for the existence of any grant tables which use the NDB storage engine; if it finds any, it creates local copies (“shadow tables”) of these using InnoDB. This is true for each MySQL server connected to NDB Cluster. After this has been performed on all MySQL servers acting as NDB Cluster SQL nodes, the NDB grant tables may be safely removed using the ndb_drop_table utility supplied with the NDB Cluster distribution, like this:

ndb_drop_table -d mysql user db columns_priv tables_priv proxies_priv procs_priv

It is safe to retain the NDB grant tables, but they are not used for access control and are effectively ignored.

For more information about the MySQL privileges system used in NDB 8.0, see Section 23.5.12, “Distributed MySQL Privileges with NDB_STORED_USER”, as well as Section 6.2.3, “Grant Tables”.

In NDB 8.0.18, the binary configuration file format has been enhanced to provide support for greater numbers of nodes than in previous versions. The new format is not accessible to 8.0.17 and older nodes, although newer management servers can detect older nodes and communicate with them using the appropriate format.

Upgrades to NDB 8.0.18 or later from 8.0.17 and earlier should not be problematic in this regard. In the case of downgrades from NDB 8.0.18 or later to 8.0.17 or earlier, because older management servers cannot read the newer binary configuration file format, some manual intervention is required. When performing such a downgrade, it is necessary to remove any cached binary configuration files prior to starting the management using the older NDB software version, and to have the plaintext configuration file available for the management server to read. Alternatively, you can start the older management server using the --initial option (again, it is necessary to have the config.ini available). If the cluster uses multiple management servers, one of these two things must be done for each management server binary.

Also in connection with support for increased numbers of nodes, due to incompatible changes implemented in NDB 8.0.18 in the data node LCP Sysfile, it is necessary, when performing an online downgrade from NDB 8.0.18 (or later) to any prior release, to restart all data nodes using the --initial option.

Restarting the data nodes with --initial is also required when upgrading any release prior to NDB 7.6.4 to any NDB 8.0 release.

Direct downgrades of clusters running more than 48 data nodes, or with data nodes using node IDs greater than 48, to NDB versions 8.0.17 and earlier from NDB 8.0.18 or later are not supported. It is necessary in such cases to reduce the number of data nodes, change the configurations for all data nodes such that they use node IDs less than or equal to 48, or both, as required not to exceed the old maximums.

If you are downgrading from NDB 8.0 to NDB 7.5 or NDB 7.4, you must set an explicit value for IndexMemory in the cluster configuration file if none is already present. This is because NDB 8.0 does not use this parameter (which was removed in NDB 7.6) and sets it to 0 by default, whereas it is required in NDB 7.5 and NDB 7.4, in both of which the cluster refuses to start with Invalid configuration received from Management Server... if IndexMemory is not set to a nonzero value.

Setting IndexMemory is not required for downgrades from NDB 8.0 to NDB 7.6.

NDB 8.0.22 adds support for IPv6 addressing for management nodes and data nodes in the config.ini file. To begin using IPv6 addresses as part of an upgrade, perform the following steps: