.. rn:: 5.5.36-34.1

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 |Percona Server| 5.5.36-34.1 
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Percona is glad to announce the release of |Percona Server| 5.5.36-34.1 on March 17th, 2013. Downloads are available `here <http://www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-5.5/Percona-Server-5.5.36-34.1/>`_ and from the :doc:`Percona Software Repositories </installation>`.

Based on `MySQL 5.5.36 <http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-36.html>`_, including all the bug fixes in it, |Percona Server| 5.5.36-34.1 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of |Percona|'s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can be found in the `5.5.36-34.1 milestone at Launchpad <https://launchpad.net/percona-server/+milestone/5.5.36-34.1>`_. 


Bugs Fixed
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 After installing the ``auth_socket`` plugin any local user might get root access to the server. If you're using this plugin upgrade is advised. This is a regression, introduced in |Percona Server| :rn:`5.5.31-30.3`. Bug fixed :bug:`1289599`.

 The new client and server packages included files with paths that were conflicting with the ones in ``mysql-libs`` package on *CentOS*. Bug fixed :bug:`1278516`.

 A clean installation of ``Percona-Server-server-55`` on *CentOS* would fail due to a typo in ``mysql_install_db`` call. Bug fixed :bug:`1291247`.

 ``Percona-Server-shared-55`` package was still declared as providing ``mysql-libs``, but it is not actually providing it anymore. Bug fixed :bug:`1291249`.

 Slave I/O thread wouldn't attempt to automatically reconnect to the master after a network time-out (``error: 1159``). Bug fixed :bug:`1268729` (upstream :mysqlbug:`71374`).

 Slave I/O thread wouldn't attempt to automatically reconnect to the master if setting ``master_heartbeat_period`` failed with a transient network error. Bug fixed :bug:`1268735` (upstream :mysqlbug:`71375`).

Renaming the ``libmysqlclient`` to ``libperconaserverclient``
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This release fixes some of the issues caused by the ``libmysqlclient`` rename to ``libperconaserverclient`` in |Percona Server| :rn:`5.5.36-34.0`. The old name was conflicting with the upstream ``libmysqlclient``. 

Except for packaging, ``libmysqlclient`` and ``libperconaserverclient`` of the same version do not have any differences. Users who previously compiled software against Percona-provided ``libmysqlclient`` will either need to install the corresponding package of their distribution, such as ``mysql-lib`` for *CentOS* and ``libmysqlclient18`` for *Ubuntu*/*Debian* or recompile against ``libperconaserverclient``. Another workaround option is to create a symlink from ``libperconaserverclient.so.18.0.0`` to ``libmysqlclient.so.18.0.0``.
