Drizzle

The entire drizzle.org domain was unavailable for about 10 hours today. This made our website, documentation, jenkins master and mail server inaccessible. On the other hand as we use public services such as Launchpad and Freenode for code repository, bug tracking, mailing list and IRC, this meant that development work continued as active as ever - in fact I think it was the most active day on IRC #drizzle channel in a while!

The DNS outage was related to our transferring of the drizzle.org domain from an individual Drizzle developer to Software in the Public Interest, Inc, our umbrella non-profit corporation. We don't know exactly why, but something went wrong between the registrars, so that the Whois record listed Tucows, the sponsoring registrar used by SPI, as the new registrar, but all other information was still pointing to the old registrar, including some Godaddy nameservers. As Godaddy eventually stopped answering DNS queries for drizzle.org - as they should - the drizzle.org domain became unavailable. 10 hours later the issue was fixed, and the correct SPI nameservers started to propagate through the DNS system. At the time of this writing, everything should have been working normally for some hours already.

And yes, in related news, drizzle.org is now transfered to the ownership of Software in the Public Interest. This is yet another step in our process of becoming a solid non-profit community project, with fiscal services provided by the SPI. So far the experience has been enjoyable and we've really felt a warm welcome into the family of SPI hosted free and open source software projects.

On that note I'd like to thank Ganneff, Solver, Hydroxide and weasel from the #spi  channel for actively helping in troubleshooting and fixing the problem today.

Thinking of attending the upcoming Percona Live event in London, but not yet registered?  Use discount code DrizzlePLUK and save 40 pounds off normal registration.

Community members Henrik Ingo and Stewart Smith will be there and both will be presenting on Drizzle.  Hope to see you there!

Drizzle source tarball, version 2011.04.15 has been released.
This is a release of the Fremont series and is a development release.  Our stable GA release can be found here.  Future releases to the Elliott series will be announced appropriately.

In this release:

Drizzle source tarball, version 2011.03.14 has been released.
This is the first release of the Fremont series and is a development release.  Our stable GA release can be found here.  Future releases to the Elliott series will be announced appropriately.
In this release:

• multi-master replication available via slave plugin. Single master replication works as it has previously (some changes to config file required)
• split libdrizzle v 1.0 and 2.0
• Code refactoring (Thanks to Olaf van der Spek for his efforts here!)
• Code cleanup (mysys, etc)
• Various bug fixes

Look for xtrabackup soon!

The Drizzle download file can be found here.

Hi everyone! Just wanted to announce that Drizzle will stop supporting FreeBSD moving forward. We will continue to build on the platform, but will no longer run our test suite.

If someone in the community wants to take over maintenance of Drizzle on FreeBSD, we would be delighted! It is simply a matter of it taking too much of our limited time to keep things running on this system.

UPDATE:  As you can see below, we've had the FreeBSD port maintainer offer to help us keep things going.  Go open source! : )

Hi there.  In case you happened to miss it, Drizzle went GA ; )

The response has been tremendous...it is all kinds of rewarding to see new faces in IRC and to have feedback from new users.  We've seen lots of new visitors to the blog and our download numbers have been most satisfying.  Thank you for giving Drizzle a spin.

Here are some quick bits of news that you may have missed:

• LinuxJedi's Last Week In Drizzle - the GA version - Andrew covers most of the interesting news from last week.
• Patrick Galbraith of Blue Gecko (and DBD::Drizzle fame) has provided some Drizzle AMI's for everyone to try out their new favorite DBMS ; )
• Drizzle has once again been accepted for Google's Summer of Code

We have some very, very interesting things cooking up for the 2011 MySQL User's Conference and we hope to see you there.  Please remember to sign up for Drizzle Developer Day or Google Summer of Code if you are interested...time is running out.

We'd also really love to have more feedback on the software.  Any thoughts from anyone deploying Drizzle?  Any questions / issues from trying it out?  Anything else?  If so, IRC, emails and launchpad will help put us in touch : )

There are a large number of Drizzle sessions at this years' MySQL UC.  If you want to know more about what you'll be using instead of MySQL in the very near future, come and check them out ; )

The team will be blogging individually about their various presentations in greater detail in the future, so keep an eye out on Planet Drizzle!

Additionally, the Friday after the conference will be Drizzle Developer Day .  It will be a good opportunity to learn more, provide feedback, etc

Here is a 25% discount code to use in case you haven't registered yet:  mys11fsd: http://oreil.ly/goaqst.

Drizzle source tarball, version 2010.12.05 beta has been released.
In this release:

• innobase plugin update to innodbase 1.1.2 from MySQL 5.5.6-rc
• continued work on sys_vars
• continued work on user-level locks
• added shutdown command to the command line client - can shut down an instance you are connected to
• more work on concurrency testing and functions (kill, execute, wait, etc)
• continued code cleanup
• various bug fixes

The Drizzle download file can be found here