With the shipment of the first release candidate (RC) of MySQL 5.7, the next major version of the server is rapidly shaping up. Over the course of the nearly two and a half years that have passed since 5.6 went GA, we have put a lot of work into streamlining the server code in order to ease the burden of developing and maintaining such a large product and codebase.…
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Contributing to MySQL Server
Do you have an idea for improving MySQL? Or do you see a problem in the code you think you can fix? Do you want to see your contribution becoming a part of the MySQL Server codebase?
MySQL Engineering gives you the opportunity of having your code considered for inclusion in one of our upcoming releases.…
MySQL Server Maintenance Releases
After a version of MySQL Server has been declared GA, Oracle releases regular maintenance updates: the 5.6 GA was 5.6.10 and we are now at 5.6.17.
A lot of work goes into the maintenance releases. The purpose of this blog post is to show you a little bit of what happens on behind the curtains in the Oracle sweatshop that actually produces a maintenance release and to give you an insight into our thinking around testing, quality and bug fixing.…