PS-10053 [DOCS] - Release notes for PS 5.7.44-55

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Author: patrickbirch

docs/release-notes/5.7.44-55.md

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+# Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.44-55 (2025-08-20)
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+## Release Information  
+
+Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.44-55 builds on MySQL 5.7.44 Community Edition,  
+adding enterprise-grade features and security enhancements from Percona.  
+
+## Security fixes
+
+The following is the final list of fixes which will be ported to 5.7
+
+[`Bug#37117875`](https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/9d4ead06951): When the delimiter is changed from the default and a SQL statement includes an unquoted semicolon inside a MySQL-specific comment, the statement executes successfully on the source database. However, this operation causes an incomplete entry in the binlog, which results in a syntax error on the replica database.
+
+[`Bug#37829550`](https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/21a91a2b977): Enhanced `WAIT_UNTIL_SQL_THREAD_AFTER_GTIDS` validations
+
+[`WL#16949`](https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/04c191b4800): A new `--commands` option has been added to the mysql client. This option, which is enabled by default, allows users to disable client-side commands when running in non-interactive mode.
+
+[`Bug#31360522`](https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/c51237cec9f): An unexpected server exit may occur when performing range queries on a table that includes a prefixed `BLOB` or `TEXT` column within its index.
+
+[`Bug#37478594`](https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/fc4b73f4002) A virtual column value may be incorrectly set to NULL on cascade update, which could lead to an unexpected server exit.
+
+
+## Non-security bug fixes
+
+[`Bug#36784795`](https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/b5ab2959dbd) : When the server ran with `autocommit=OFF`, the query rewrite plugin did not work properly.
+
+[`Bug#37572191`](https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/94a29a8a117):  If `preserve_comments` is turned off, the server won't allow hints that contain `#` or `--`  inside comment blocks. The fix was already provided in [Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.44-54](https://docs.percona.com/percona-server/5.7/release-notes/5.7.44-53.html#bug-fixes), this update fixes the test case.
+
+[`Bug#37765153`](https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/05d25639413): To allow Debian/Ubuntu builds to run without root privileges, we removed the file ownership changes from the installation commands in our packaging scripts. These commands were previously run as the root user (or with `fakeroot`) and are no longer necessary or recommended.
+
+
+## Additional Resources  
+
+- [Install Percona Server for MySQL](https://www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server)  
+- [Percona Server for MySQL GitHub Repository](https://github.com/percona/percona-server)  
+- [Contribute to the Documentation](https://docs.percona.com)  
+- [Percona Training – Start Learning Now](https://www.percona.com/training)  

docs/release-notes/release-notes_index.md

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 # Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 release notes index
 
+* [Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.44-55 (2025-08-20)](5.7.44-55.md)
+
 * [Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.44-54 (2025-05-26)](5.7.44-54.md)
 
 * [Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.44-53 (2025-02-25)](5.7.44-53.md)

mkdocs-base.yml

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       - tokudb/removing_tokudb.md
   - Release notes:
       - Release notes index: release-notes/release-notes_index.md
+      - release-notes/5.7.44-55.md
       - release-notes/5.7.44-54.md
       - release-notes/5.7.44-53.md
       - release-notes/5.7.44-52.md

variables.yml

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 # variables for HTML output
 
-release: '5.7.44-54'
+release: '5.7.44-55'
 version: '5.7'
-release-date: May 26, 2025
+release-date: August 20, 2025
 post: 'MySQL 5.7 Post-EOL Support from Percona'
 repo-post: 'ps-post-eol'
 eol: 'Post-EOL'