# ProxySQL 1.4.4 and proxysql-admin (2018-01-18)

* **Installation**: [https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtradb-cluster/LATEST/howtos/proxysql-v1.html#installing-proxysql-v1](https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtradb-cluster/LATEST/howtos/proxysql-v1.html#installing-proxysql-v1)

*ProxySQL* 1.4.4, released by [ProxySQL](https://www.proxysql.com/), is now available for download in
the [Percona repository](https://www.percona.com/software/percona-software-repositories-for-mysql) along with an updated version of **Percona**’s **proxysql-admin** tool.

*ProxySQL* is a high-performance proxy, currently for MySQL, and database
servers in the MySQL ecosystem (like **Percona Server for MySQL** and MariaDB). It acts as an
intermediary for client requests seeking resources from the
database. René Cannaò created *ProxySQL* for DBAs as a means of solving
complex replication topology issues.

The *ProxySQL* 1.4.4 source and binary packages are available from the [Percona
download page for ProxySQL](https://percona.com/downloads/proxysql) include ProxySQL Admin – a tool developed by
**Percona** to configure **Percona XtraDB Cluster** nodes into *ProxySQL*. Docker images are available as well. You can [download the original ProxySQL from GitHub](https://github.com/sysown/proxysql/releases). *ProxySQL* offers the [ProxySQL documentation](https://proxysql.com/documentation/).

## This release fixes the following bugs in ProxySQL Admin

* [PXC-892](https://jira.percona.com/browse/PXC-892): proxysql-admin was unable to recognize IP
address of localhost.

* [PXC-893](https://jira.percona.com/browse/PXC-893): proxysql-admin couldn’t interpret passwords with
special characters correctly, such as ‘$’

* [PSQLADM-3](https://jira.percona.com/browse/PSQLADM-3): proxysql_node_monitor script had writer/reader hostgroup
conflict issue.

* [PQA-155](https://jira.percona.com/browse/PQA-155): Runtime table was not updated in case of any changes in
Percona XtraDB Cluster membership.

* [BLD-853](https://jira.percona.com/browse/BLD-853): *ProxySQL* logrotate script did not work properly,
producing empty /etc/proxysql.log after logrotate.

*ProxySQL* is available under Open Source license GPLv3.