The MySQL Development team is very happy to announce that MySQL 8.0.18 is now available for download at dev.mysql.com. In addition to bug fixes there are a few new features added in this release. Please download 8.0.18 from dev.mysql.com or from the MySQL Yum, APT, or SUSE repositories.…
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The MySQL 8.0.17 Maintenance Release is Generally Available
The MySQL Development team is very happy to announce that MySQL 8.0.17 is now available for download at dev.mysql.com. In addition to bug fixes there are a few new features added in this release. Please download 8.0.17 from dev.mysql.com or from the MySQL Yum, APT, or SUSE repositories.…
The MySQL 8.0.16 Maintenance Release is Generally Available
The MySQL Development team is very happy to announce that MySQL 8.0.16 is now available for download at dev.mysql.com. In addition to bug fixes there are a few new features added in this release. Please download 8.0.16 from dev.mysql.com or from the MySQL Yum, APT, or SUSE repositories.…
MySQL Connection Handling and Scaling
In this post we describe MySQL connections, user threads, and scaling. We hope that an increased understanding of how MySQL works will help application developers and system administrators to make good choices and trade-offs. We describe how connections work in a plain community server and we do not cover related topics such as thread pooling, resource groups, or connection multiplexing in this post.…
The complete list of new features in MySQL 8.0
There are over 250 new features in MySQL 8.0. The MySQL Manual is very good, but verbose. This is a list of new features in short bullet form. We have tried very hard to make sure each feature is only mentioned once.…
The MySQL 8.0.14 Maintenance Release is Generally Available
The MySQL Development team is very happy to announce that MySQL 8.0.14 is now available for download at dev.mysql.com. In addition to bug fixes there are a few new features added in this release. Please download 8.0.14 from dev.mysql.com or from the MySQL Yum, APT, or SUSE repositories.…
The MySQL 8.0.13 Maintenance Release is Generally Available
The MySQL Development team is very happy to announce that MySQL 8.0.13 is now available for download at dev.mysql.com. In addition to bug fixes there are a few new features added in this release. Please download 8.0.13 from dev.mysql.com or from the MySQL Yum, APT, or SUSE repositories.…
The MySQL 8.0.12 Maintenance Release is Generally Available
The MySQL Development team is very happy to announce that MySQL 8.0.12, the first 8.0 Maintenance Release, is now available for download at dev.mysql.com. In addition to bug fixes there are a few new features added in this release, most notably the InnoDB instant add column feature. …
Changes in MySQL 8.0.11 (General Availability)
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.…
What’s New in MySQL 8.0? (Generally Available)
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:
- SQL Window functions, Common Table Expressions, NOWAIT and SKIP LOCKED, Descending Indexes, Grouping, Regular Expressions, Character Sets, Cost Model, and Histograms.