The MySQL Development team announced the General Availability of MySQL 8.0 on April 19th, 2018. Here we follow up with references to worklogs that were added in 8.0.11. Note the jump in version number from 8.0.4 (RC2) to 8.0.11 (GA) explained here.…

We proudly announce General Availability of MySQL 8.0. Download now! MySQL 8.0 is an extremely exciting new version of the world’s most popular open source database with improvements across the board. Some key enhancements include:

1. SQL Window functions, Common Table Expressions, NOWAIT and SKIP LOCKED, Descending Indexes, Grouping, Regular Expressions, Character Sets, Cost Model, and Histograms.

One of the nice things about MySQL 8.0 is the ability to combine the relational and document models. As a developer, you can choose to work with traditional SQL tables, with schemaless JSON documents, or with both types at the same time.…

With this post, I want to bring your attention to source code improvements in MySQL 8.0. MySQL 8.0 modernizes the code base by using C++11 constructs, being warning-free on more compilers and platforms, being UBSan- and ASan- clean, improving header file dependencies, improving the coding style, and better developer documentation.…

MySQL 8.0 comes with improved defaults, aiming at the best out of the box experience possible. Here we describe the changes and why they are made.

Introduction

Generally speaking, a good default is “the best choice for most users, most of the time”.…

The MySQL Development team is very happy to announce that MySQL 8.0.4, the second 8.0 Release Candidate (RC2), is now available for download at dev.mysql.com (8.0.4 adds features to 8.0.3, 8.0.2, 8.0.1 and 8.0.0). The source code is available at GitHub.…

The MySQL Development team is very happy to announce that MySQL 8.0.3, the first 8.0 Release Candidate (RC1), is now available for download at dev.mysql.com (8.0.3 adds features to 8.0.2, 8.0.1 and 8.0.0). The source code is available at GitHub.…

The MySQL Development team is happy to announce our 8.0.2 development milestone release (DMR), now available for download at dev.mysql.com. (8.0.2 adds features to 8.0.1 and 8.0.0). The source code is available at GitHub. You can find the full list of changes and bug fixes in the 8.0.2 Release Notes.…

The MySQL Development team is happy to announce our 8.0.1 development milestone release (DMR), now available for download at dev.mysql.com. (8.0.1 adds features to 8.0.0). The source code is available at GitHub. You can find the full list of changes and bug fixes in the 8.0.1 Release Notes.…

There are several advantages to keeping up to date with the latest major versions of MySQL. To provide a short example using MySQL 5.7:

• Let application developers benefit from new functionality, e.g. JSON in 5.7
• Use your hardware infrastructure more efficiently with parallel slaves in 5.7
• Improve monitoring or management for DevOps with more performance schema instrumentation in 5.7
• Improve security by using features like  transparent data encryption, firewall, auditing, and sha256 authentication in 5.7
• Keep within the EOL window for access to maintenance releases and support

This blog post explains general activities in an upgrade project and what to look out for prior to an upgrade between major MySQL Server releases.…