Announcing Vitess 19 # We're thrilled to announce the release of Vitess 19, our latest version packed with enhancements aimed at improving scalability, performance, and usability of your database systems. With this release, we continue our commitment to providing a powerful, scalable, and reliable database clustering solution for MySQL. What's New in Vitess 19 # Dropping Support for MySQL 5.7: As Oracle has marked MySQL 5.7 end of life in October 2023, we're also moving forward by dropping support for MySQL 5.

Announcing Vitess 19 # We're thrilled to announce the release of Vitess 19, our latest version packed with enhancements aimed at improving scalability, performance, and usability of your database systems. With this release, we continue our commitment to providing a powerful, scalable, and reliable database clustering solution for MySQL. What's New in Vitess 19 # Dropping Support for MySQL 5.7: As Oracle has marked MySQL 5.7 end of life in October 2023, we're also moving forward by dropping support for MySQL 5.

Vitess 18 is now Generally Available, with a number of new enhancements designed to improve usability, performance and MySQL compatibility. MySQL Compatibility Improvements # Foreign Keys # In the past, foreign keys had to be managed outside Vitess. This was a significant blocker for adoption. We are now able to support Vitess-managed foreign keys within the same shard. This includes the ability to import data into Vitess from an existing MySQL database with foreign keys.

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Vitess 17! Major Themes in Vitess 17 # In this release of Vitess, several significant enhancements have been introduced to improve the compatibility, performance, and usability of the system. GA Announcements # The VTTablet settings connection pool feature, introduced in v15, is now enabled by default in this release. This feature simplifies the management and configuration of system settings, providing users with a more streamlined and convenient experience.

The Vitess Maintainer team is pleased to announce the results of a recent third-party security audit of the Vitess code base. Vitess had previously been audited in 2019. Given the amount of time that has passed, and the magnitude of change during that time, the maintainer team decided to request a fresh audit. Starting in March 2023, an independent team from Ada Logics performed a full security audit of Vitess with a special focus on VTAdmin, which is a relatively new addition to Vitess.

Introducing schemadiff, an internal library in Vitess that has been one of its best-kept secrets until now. At its core, schemadiff is a declarative, programmatic library that can produce a diff in SQL format of two entities: tables, views, or full blown database schemas. But it then goes beyond that to normalize, validate, export, and even apply schema changes, all declaratively and without having to use a MySQL server. Let's dive in to understand its functionality and capabilities.

Note: The content was originally published at PlanetScale Connection pooling is a commonly used technique in modern applications to manage database connections efficiently. It involves creating a cache of database connections that the application can use as needed. Instead of creating a new connection for each request to the database, the application retrieves a connection from the pool. After the application finishes using the connection, it is returned to the pool to be reused later, rather than being closed outright.

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Vitess 16! Documentation improvements # In this release the maintainer team has decided to put an emphasis on reviewing, editing, and rewriting the website documentation to be current with the code. With help from CNCF, we have also improved the search experience. We welcome feedback on the current incarnation of the docs. GA announcements # We are marking VDiff v2 as Generally Available or production-ready in v16.

Some of the Vitess maintainers traveled to Brussels, Belgium to attend and speak at pre-FOSDEM MySQL Days and at FOSDEM. pre-FOSDEM MySQL Days # When: Feb 2-3 Who: Deepthi Sigireddi, Harshit Gangal, Shlomi Noach What: VTOrc - How Vitess achieves consensus using MySQL Replication by Deepthi Highlights # There were a lot of questions about how Vitess handles various failure scenarios. We had good conversations with both the MySQL team and MySQL/Vitess community users.

Vitess 15 is now generally available, with a number of new enhancements designed to make Vitess easier to use, more resilient, and easier to scale! VTOrc release # VTOrc, a Vitess-native cluster monitoring and recovery component, is now GA. VTOrc monitors and repairs Vitess clusters, eliminating paging and manual intervention and automating recovery. This makes Vitess fully self-healing and resilient to MySQL server failures. It also obsoletes the third-party integration with Orchestrator that users have traditionally relied on to recover from MySQL server failures.