Announcing Percona Server 5.6 Alpha

We are very happy to announce our first alpha of Percona Server 5.6. Based on MySQL 5.6.5 and all the improvements contained within, this is the first step towards a full Percona Server 5.6 release.

Binaries are available to download from our downloads site here: http://www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-5.6/Percona-Server-5.6.5-alpha60.0/

We will post binaries to our EXPERIMENTAL repositories later, we’re undergoing final testing to ensure that it won’t cause problems for those running Percona Server < 5.6 from EXPERIMENTAL.