MySQL Cluster Manager 1.4.8 has been released (no replies)

Dear MySQL Users,

MySQL Cluster Manager 1.4.8 can be downloaded from
the My Oracle Support (MOS) website. It will also be available
on Oracle Software Delivery Cloud at http://edelivery.oracle.com with
the next monthly update

MySQL Cluster Manager is an optional component of the MySQL Cluster Carrier
Grade Edition, providing a command-line interface that automates common
management tasks, including the following online operations:
 - Configuring and starting MySQL Cluster
 - Upgrades
 - Adding and removing cluster nodes
 - Adding and removing site hosts
 - Configuration changes
 - Backup and restore

MySQL Cluster Manager is a commercial extension to the MySQL family of products.
More details can be found at http://www.mysql.com/products/cluster/mcm/

A brief summary of changes in MySQL Cluster Manager version 1.4.8 is listed below:

 Changes in MySQL Cluster Manager 1.4.8 (2020-01-24)


     * Experimental support for MySQL NDB Cluster 8.0

     * Functionality Added or Changed

     * Bugs Fixed

Experimental support for MySQL NDB Cluster 8.0


     * MySQL Cluster Manager now supports NDB Cluster 8.0 on an
       experimental basis; see Supported Platforms and MySQL NDB
       Cluster Versions
(https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-cluster-manager/1.4/en/mcm-install-cluster-compatibility.html)
        for limitations.

Functionality Added or Changed


     * Incompatible Change; Agent: When managing NDB Cluster
       8.0.19 and later, the restore cluster command no longer
       restores shared users and grants
(https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-cluster-privilege-distribution.html)
       to the mysql.ndb_sql_metadata
       table by default. A new command option,
       --include-stored-grants, has been added for overriding
       this behavior and enabling the restore of shared user and
       grant data and metadata. (Bug #30375672)

     * Packaging: MySQL Cluster Manager is now built and shipped
       with OpenSSL 1.1.1d. (Bug #30612140)

     * Agent: By default, a rolling restart for a cluster is
       performed on the nodes in a parallel manner (that is,
       half of the nodes are stopped and restarted together,
       followed by the second half of the nodes). Now, rolling
       restarts can be performed in a sequential manner by using
       the --sequential-restart option with commands that
       perform rolling restarts, in which case the nodes are
       stopped and restarted one after another. The option can
       be used with the restart cluster, change process, add
       process, set, reset, and autotune commands. (Bug
       #30062392)

     * Agent: Some parameters could only be set before the
       initial start of a node (for example,
       NoOfFragmentLogparts); it then became impossible to set
       them after an initial start of a cluster had failed. It
       is now possible to set such parameters again, as long as
       the node involved had not yet been assigned to any
       nodegroup during the failed initial start. (Bug
       #29718127)

     * Agent: Following changes in NDB Cluster 8.0.18, the
       maximum number of data nodes supported by a NDB 8.0
       cluster managed by MySQL Cluster Manager is now 145, and
       the maximum number of node groups supported is now 72.
       With that change, when a NDB 8.0 Cluster is bootstrapped
       by mcmd with the --bootstrap option, ndb_mgmd, mysqld,
       and ndbapi nodes are assigned node IDs of 145 and above.
       (Bug #29459428)

     * Client: The --disable-indexes option for the restore
       cluster command has been removed, to avoid having the
       cluster restored into a bad state. (Bug #30728256)

     * Client: The message for ERROR 6020 has been expanded to
       include the reason why a configuration parameter cannot
       be set given the current process states. (Bug #30526906)

     * Client: The log message for a failed connection to mcmd
       by an mcm client has been expanded, warning users to make
       sure the correct hostname or IP address is specified, and
       that no firewall is blocking connection attempts. (Bug
       #30288338)

Bugs Fixed


     * Agent: The update process command failed when no ndb_mgmd
       node was running. It was due to an excessive restriction
       asserted by mcmd that this patch has relieved, so that a
       running ndb_mgmd node is required now only when update
       process is applied to a data node or mysqld node. (Bug
       #30723002)

     * Agent: During an MySQL Cluster Manager upgrade, when mcmd
       was upgrading its repository. it was over aggressive in
       removing old configuration objects that did not need to
       be upgraded, resulting sometimes in inconsistency of the
       repository and mcmd quitting unexpectedly. With this fix,
       mcmd only deletes configuration objects that it is
       supposed to. (Bug #30666263)

     * Agent: When running the import cluster command, there
       were a lot of unnecessary critical messages issued to the
       agent log. (Bug #30572723)

     * Agent: A cluster restart failed after the cluster has
       been imported by mcmd if the Arbitration parameter was
       specified in the config.ini file of the imported cluster.
       It was because the import config command, which was
       always run before the import cluster command, imported
       the parameter's value wrongly, and that has been
       corrected by this fix. (Bug #30505003)

     * Agent: After an add process command failed and the remove
       process command was used to clean up the processes that
       were not successfully added, a subsequent restart cluster
       command caused mcmd to quite unexpectedly. With this fix,
       mcmd issues a warning in the situation and then finishes
       the restart. (Bug #30498301)

     * Agent: When the stop cluster command was run and mcmd had
       to force a mysqld node to stop, the node got stuck in the
       stopping state, while mcm reported that the cluster had
       been stopped successfully. (Bug #30375807)

     * Agent: The restore cluster command timed out when the
       cluster to be backed up contained more than 2000 schemas.
       With this fix, the mcmd agents are informed of the
       progress of the restore on a more frequent basis, so that
       even if the process takes a longer time to finish, the
       agents would wait instead of timing out. (Bug #30360453)

     * Agent: When running the restore cluster command, a schema
       or table name containing a comma was taken by mcmd as a
       comma-separated list of multiple schemas or tables,
       resulting in the schema or table being restored wrongly.
       With this fix, mcmd honors the comma as part of the
       schema or table name. (Bug #30360401)

     * Agent: When managing an NDB 8.0 cluster, during the
       initial startup of the cluster, the start cluster command
       sometimes failed due to a failure to create the mcmd user
       on the cluster. That was because while the grants for the
       mcmd user are automatically synchronized to all mysqld
       nodes in NDB 8.0, mcmd still tried to create the user on
       individual nodes, thus creating conflicts. With this
       patch, the mcmd user is now only created on one mysqld
       node, and the grants are synchronized to other nodes by
       the cluster. (Bug #30015430)

     * Agent: When running an add process command, if multiple
       new nodegroups are to be created, mcmd misassigned nodes
       already in a nodegroup to a new group, causing an error
       to be thrown. It was due to the way mcmd reported
       nodegroup membership information internally, which this
       patch corrects. (Bug #29723329)

     * Agent: On Windows platforms, the rotate log command gave
       a wrong name to the new log file. (Bug #29478833)

     * Agent: For MySQL NDB Cluster 8.0, after a set
       skip_grant_tables:mysqld=true command has been issued
       from the mcm client, mcmd lost connection to the mysqld
       node. It was because on a mysqld node, remote connections
       were disabled when skip-grant-tables was true. With this
       fix, for MySQL servers started by mcmd, setting or
       resetting skip-grant-tables no longer disables remote
       connections, as long as the setting or resetting is
       performed when the mysqld node has been stopped. (Bug
       #29329690)

     * Agent: For a NDB Cluster without any mysqld nodes, a
       rolling restart might sometime cause some of the mcmd
       agents to quit unexpectedly. (Bug #29289945)

     * Agent: A slow increase in memory use was observed over
       time for mcmd, which might potentially add up to a
       significant amount if mcmd was not restarted for a long
       time. This fix eliminates the problem by removing a task
       that was executed repeatedly and unnecessarily by mcmd.
       (Bug #29166492)

     * Agent: The import config command took a long time to run
       on SPARC systems. With this fix the process for
       retrieving the configuration from the MySQL Server has
       been optimized for SPARC systems, so that the command
       does not run longer than on other platforms. (Bug
       #22673589)

     * Client: When the delete package command specified with
       the --hosts option a host name that mcmd did not
       recognize as a site member, mcmd quit unexpectedly. With
       this fix, mcmd throws a proper error in the situation.
       (Bug #29584728)


On Behalf of MySQL Release Engineering team,
Balasubramanian Kandasamy