It has been over a year since we made Upgrade Checker utility available as part of MySQL Shell. While purpose of Upgrade Checker remains the same, to provide ability to check your server before attempting an upgrade, the tool has evolved and this post provides brief overview of the changes.…

MySQL 8.0 brings a lot of exciting new features and improvements. To make sure that your 5.7 system is ready for an upgrade there are certain steps you should take, described in our documentation: upgrade prerequisites. To make this process as quick and easy as possible we are introducing in MySQL Shell version 8.0.4 new utility called “Upgrade checker” (UC).…