ProxySQL is proud to announce the latest release of ProxySQL version 2.0.17 on the 9th of February 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 v2.0.17 is a patch release comprising of minor backward compatible changes and bug fixes. 

Be sure to try out the new ProxySQL 2.0.17 release and let us know your experience!

Release Highlights


  • Improved workaround for MySQL bug #102266. This MySQL bug was triggered due to recent fixes introduced for v2.0.16.
    Initial workaround didn’t cover all cases, bug report was updated with latest findings and a draft with a potential fix.
  • Implemented the parsing of charset/collation from COM_CHANGE_USER
  • Fixed infinite loop induced by particular timing conditions during SSL handshake
  • More fixes and updates that improve stability and enhance the performance of ProxySQL, detailed release notes for ProxySQL 2.0.17 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.