MySQL 8.0.24 has been released today \o/

As usual, it’s highly advised to read the release notes to get informed about the changes and bug fixed.

MySQL is Open Source and each release contains contributions from our great Community. Let me thanks all the contributors on behalf of the entire MySQL Team: Thank you !

MySQL 8.024 includes contributions from Daniël van Eeden, Kaiwang Chen, Zhai Weixiang, Venkatesh Prasad Venugopal, Jingbo Zhao, Yuxiang Jiang, Brian Yue, Hope Lee, Stanislav Revin, Mattias Jonsson, Facebook and a suggestion from Dmitriy Philimonov.

Once again, thank you all for your great contributions.

Here is the list of the above contributions and related bugs:

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Dear MySQL users,

The MySQL developer tools team announces 8.0.24 as our General Availability (GA) for MySQL Workbench 8.0.

For discussion, join the MySQL Workbench Forums:

  http://forums.mysql.com/index.php?152

The release is now available in source and binary form for a number of platforms from our download pages at:

  http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/workbench/

Enjoy!

A couple of years ago, MySQL Connector/Net shipped with a feature that allowed the connector to automatically create a SSH “tunnel” to a remote MySQL host. This could be useful in that it allows a remote MySQL host to only run with a secure port and a local client could connect to a local port to access it. We wrote about that feature in a blog post you can read here.

Today we are announcing that starting with the 8.0.24 release we are removing that feature. We decided to take this action for a few reasons. First, very few people were actually using the feature. Including a security sensitive feature that few people use is something we always want to examine. In addition, we were starting to encounter some friction between the encryption methods and ciphers that library supported and those that we wanted to support …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Shell 8.0.24 is a maintenance release of MySQL Shell 8.0 Series (a
component of the MySQL Server). The MySQL Shell is provided under Oracle’s
dual-license.

MySQL Shell 8.0 is highly recommended for use with MySQL Server 8.0 and 5.7.
Please upgrade to MySQL Shell 8.0.24.

MySQL Shell is an interactive JavaScript, Python and SQL console interface,
supporting development and administration for the MySQL Server. It provides
APIs implemented in JavaScript and Python that enable you to work with MySQL
InnoDB Cluster and use MySQL as a document store.

The AdminAPI enables you to work with MySQL InnoDB Cluster and InnoDB
ReplicaSet, providing integrated solutions for high availability and
scalability using InnoDB based MySQL databases, without requiring advanced
MySQL expertise.  For more information …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/J 8.0.24 is the latest General Availability release of the
MySQL Connector/J 8.0 series.  It is suitable for use with MySQL Server
versions 8.0 and 5.7.  It supports the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
4.2 API, and implements the X DevAPI.

This release includes the following new features and changes, also described in
more detail on

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-j/8.0/en/news-8-0-24.html

As always, we recommend that you check the “CHANGES” file in the download
archive to be aware of changes in behavior that might affect your application.

To download MySQL Connector/J 8.0.24 GA, see the “General Availability (GA)
Releases” tab at …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/C++ 8.0.24 is a new release version of the MySQL
Connector/C++ 8.0 series.

Connector/C++ 8.0 can be used to access MySQL implementing Document
Store or in a traditional way, using SQL queries. It allows writing
both C++ and plain C applications using X DevAPI and X DevAPI for C.
It also supports the legacy API of Connector/C++ 1.1 based on JDBC4.

To learn more about how to write applications using X DevAPI, see
“X DevAPI User Guide” at

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/

See also “X DevAPI Reference” at

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-cpp/devapi_ref.html

and “X DevAPI for C Reference” at

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MySQL Server 8.0.24 and 5.7.34, new versions of the popular Open Source Database Management System, have been released. These releases are recommended for use on production systems. For an overview of what’s new, please see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-nutshell.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-nutshell.html For information on installing the release on new servers, please see the MySQL installation documentation at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/installing.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/installing.html […]

Introduction In this article, we are going to see what a Clustered Index is and why it’s very important to understand how tables are organized when using a relational database system. B+ Tree The most common index used in a relational database system is the B+ Tree one. Like the B-Tree index, the B+ Tree is a self-balanced ordered tree data structure. Both the B-Tree and the B-Tree start from a Root node and may have Internal Nodes and Leaf Nodes. However, unlike the B-Tree, the B+ Tree stores all the keys... Read More

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Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/NET 8.0.24 is the latest General Availability release
of the MySQL Connector/NET 8.0 series. This version supports .NET 5.0
and the X DevAPI, which enables application developers to write code
that combines the strengths of the relational and document models
using a modern, NoSQL-like syntax that does not assume previous
experience writing traditional SQL.

To learn more about how to write applications using the X DevAPI, see

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/

For more information about how the X DevAPI is implemented in
Connector/NET, see

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-net

NuGet packages provide functionality at a project level. To get the
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Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/Node.js is a new Node.js driver for use with the X

DevAPI. This release, v8.0.24, is a maintenance release of the

MySQL Connector/Node.js 8.0 series.

The X DevAPI enables application developers to write code that combines

the strengths of the relational and document models using a modern,

NoSQL-like syntax that does not assume previous experience writing

traditional SQL.

MySQL Connector/Node.js can be downloaded through npm (see

  https://www.npmjs.com/package/@mysql/xdevapi for details) or from

https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/nodejs/.

To learn more about how to write applications using the X DevAPI, see

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