Merge pull request #309953 from flyingcircusio/PL-132430-percona-innovation

percona: restructure releases according to upstream release policy

3 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2405.section.md b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2405.section.md
index d6b8ffe8609fa..72f24f5e19051 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2405.section.md
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2405.section.md
@@ -254,6 +254,10 @@ The pre-existing [services.ankisyncd](#opt-services.ankisyncd.enable) has been m
 
 - `unrar` was updated to v7. See [changelog](https://www.rarlab.com/unrar7notes.htm) for more information.
 
+- `percona-server` now follows [the same two-fold release cycle](https://www.percona.com/blog/lts-and-innovation-releases-for-percona-server-for-mysql/) as Oracle MySQL and provides a *Long-Term-Support (LTS)* in parallel with a continuous-delivery *Innovation* release. `percona-server` defaults to `percona-server_lts`, will be backed by the same release branch throughout the lifetime of this stable NixOS release, and is still available under the versioned attribute `percona-server_8_0`.
+  The `percona-server_innovation` releases however have support periods shorter than the lifetime of this NixOS release and will continuously be updated to newer Percona releases. Note that Oracle considers the *Innovation* releases to be production-grade, but each release might include backwards-incompatible changes, even in its on-disk format.
+  The same release scheme is applied to the supporting `percona-xtrabackup` tool as well.
+
 - `git-town` was updated from version 11 to 13. See the [changelog](https://github.com/git-town/git-town/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#1300-2024-03-22) for breaking changes.
 
 - `k9s` was updated to v0.31. There have been various breaking changes in the config file format,
diff --git a/nixos/tests/mysql/common.nix b/nixos/tests/mysql/common.nix
index 1cf52347f4c74..ad54b0e00c1b3 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/mysql/common.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/mysql/common.nix
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     inherit (pkgs) mysql80;
   };
   perconaPackages = {
-    inherit (pkgs) percona-server_8_0;
+    inherit (pkgs) percona-server_lts percona-server_innovation;
   };
   mkTestName = pkg: "mariadb_${builtins.replaceStrings ["."] [""] (lib.versions.majorMinor pkg.version)}";
 }
diff --git a/nixos/tests/mysql/mysql.nix b/nixos/tests/mysql/mysql.nix
index 0a61f9d38fe2e..093da4f46aa10 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/mysql/mysql.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/mysql/mysql.nix
@@ -146,6 +146,6 @@ in
   }) mariadbPackages)
   // (lib.mapAttrs (_: package: makeMySQLTest {
     inherit package;
-    name = "percona_8_0";
+    name = builtins.replaceStrings ["-"] ["_"] package.pname;
     hasMroonga = false; useSocketAuth = false;
   }) perconaPackages)