ProxySQL is proud to announce the latest release of ProxySQL version 2.0.16 on the 26th of January 2021

ProxySQL is a high performance, high availability, protocol aware proxy for MySQL, with a GPL license! It can be downloaded here or alternatively from the ProxySQL Repository, or the Docker image available on our Official ProxySQL Docker Repository.  ProxySQL is freely usable and accessible according to the GNU GPL v3.0 license.

Release Overview Highlights


ProxySQL v2.0.16 is a patch release comprising of minor backward compatible changes and bug fixes. This release brings several fixes to ProxySQL’s Native Galera monitor, AWS Aurora and connection handling.

Be sure to try out the new ProxySQL 2.0.16 release and let us know your experience!

Release Highlights


  • Galera nodes permanently dropped from runtime_mysql_servers for writer_is_also_reader=2. #3187
  • Fixed ProxySQL Native Galera support stop to work after PROXYSQL RESTART. #2330
  • Galera node wrongly purged after placed ‘OFFLINE HARD’ in the ‘offline_hostgroup’. #3216
  • Server wrongly used as reader for Galera cluster with ‘writer_is_also_reader=2’. #3219
  • Fix for AWS Aurora 2.9. Replication lag for ‘MASTER_SESSION_ID’ is now assumed to be ‘0’. #3234
  • Fix several memory leaks detected by valgrind: #3204
  • Several other fixes and updates that improve stability and enhance the performance of ProxySQL, detailed release notes for ProxySQL 2.0.16 are available on the release page

A special thanks to all the people that report bugs: this makes each version of ProxySQL better than the previous. Please report any bugs or feature requests on the project’s Github issue tracker.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us. Our performance and scalability experts are readily available to evaluate the overall state of your database infrastructure and help to build a robust and reliable MySQL HA architecture. We also offer consulting, long term support and training for ProxySQL.