This article explains the version support policy for HeatWave MySQL, covering lifecycle management aspects such as version availability, updates, and end-of-support timelines. Understanding this policy helps customers keep their applications secure, optimized, and up to date with the latest MySQL advancements while ensuring smooth transitions between versions. MySQL 8.0 will reach End-Of-Life (EOL) in April 2026. […]

1. Preface This blog begins by introducing the current state of systemd notifications in MySQL. It then delves into how systemd notifications can be used and how they differ from other MySQL monitoring utilities like Error log, General log, etc. This blog then discusses new granular notifications added in server initialization, startup and shutdown flows, followed […]

MySQL’s first Innovation Release is out, 8.1.0, and with it, we’re introducing MySQL InnoDB Cluster Read Replicas.  The main purpose of secondaries on MySQL InnoDB Cluster is to be ready to take over when a primary member has failed (High Availability). This is done using MySQL Group Replication. Another commonly used purpose for the secondaries is […]

  For Official MySQL Release Policy    https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/mysql-releases.html     

On April 18 2023, MySQL Server 8.0.33 was released. It is the latest release of our MySQL 8.0 General Availability Release. The new release introduces a few new features alongside with some deprecations, as well as bugfixes and security fixes. New MySQL Enterprise Edition Data Masking Component MySQL Enterprise Edition now provides data masking and de-identification capabilities […]

MySQL Shell 8.0.33 was released last week. Apart from several bugfixes, there are some new, important, and long-desired features related to security, concurrency control, and performance settings. Passwordless authentication (certificate-based authentication) The AdminAPI enables an easy set-up and maintenance of MySQL deployments, either for High Availability or Disaster Recovery. Security is crucial and InnoDB Cluster has support for […]

MySQL Shell 8.0.32 was released last week and includes several bugfixes as well as some new features. Let's look into what was added in this new release. New Features $ cat ~/.my.cnf [client] user=root host=lefred password=lefreptwasswort $ mysqlsh MySQL Shell 8.0.32-commercial Copyright (c) 2016, 2023, Oracle and/or its affiliates. Oracle is a registered trademark of […]

Last year, in March 2022, our MySQL Operator for Kubernetes became Generally Available. Since then, several new features were added to our operator and along with the release of MySQL Server 8.0.32 comes a new release of our MySQL Operator for Kubernetes 8.0.32-2.0.8.  The goal of the MySQL Operator for Kubernetes is to provide an easy way […]

On January 17 2023, MySQL Server 8.0.32 was released. It is the latest release of our MySQL 8.0 General Availability Release. The new release introduces a few new features alongside with some deprecations, as well as bugfixes and security fixes. Let’s dive into some detail on these new features and changes MySQL Enterprise Optimizer mysql> […]

The MySQL Enterprise Tools Development Team is pleased to announce the maintenance release of MySQL Enterprise Monitor 8.0.14 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. It will also be available for download via the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a few days. If you are not familiar with MySQL Enterprise Monitor, it is […]