This is a reminder that MySQL 5.6 reaches End of Life status in February 2021.  I have been sending out such reminders since February of this year. But in my presentations this year when I bring up the 5.6 EOL, there are a lot of users out there that are surprised to hear the news.

    Wikipedia says ""End-of-life" ("EOL") is a term used with respect to a product supplied to customers, indicating that the product is in the end of its useful life (from the vendor's point of view), and a vendor stops marketing, selling, or rework sustaining it. (The vendor may simply intend to limit or end support for the product.)" 

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MySQL 8.0.22 introduces many new improvements and updates, many of which deserve their own blog post for a deep dive into the new features.  Among the notable changes are: Prepared Statements, SHOW PROCESSLIST, TIMESTAMP, Read Only Schema, Error Log, User Management, Optimizer, Replication, Keyring, Router, and more.

Here are the MySQL 8.0.22 top blog posts:

Server

• The MySQL 8.0.22 Maintenance Release is Generally Available
• Announcing MySQL Server 8.0.22, 5.7.32 and 5.6.50

Shell

• MySQL Shell 8.0.22 …

MySQL 8.0.22 introduces many new improvements and updates, many of which deserve their own blog post for a deep dive into the new features. Among the notable changes are: Prepared Statements, SHOW PROCESSLIST, TIMESTAMP, Read Only Schema, Error Log, User Management, Optimizer, Replication, Keyring, ...

Let’s answer a question which, to my knowledge, has never been systematically addressed: What are the requirements for a production-ready query metrics app at scale? I am uniquely qualified to answer that because I have written four query metrics apps, two of which are the open-source standard for MySQL: pt-query-digest and the original (v1) code behind the query metrics/analysis part of Percona Monitoring and Management. I’ve also published a couple of packages related to query metrics: go-mysql/slowlog and go-mysql/query.

Let’s answer a question which, to my knowledge, has never been systematically addressed: What are the requirements for a production-ready query metrics app at scale? I am uniquely qualified to answer that because I have written four query metrics apps, two of which are the open-source standard for MySQL: pt-query-digest and the original (v1) code behind the query metrics/analysis part of Percona Monitoring and Management. I’ve also published a couple of packages related to query metrics: go-mysql/slowlog and go-mysql/query.

Let’s answer a question which, to my knowledge, has never been systematically addressed: What are the requirements for a production-ready query metrics app at scale? I am uniquely qualified to answer that because I have written four query metrics apps, two of which are the open-source standard for MySQL: pt-query-digest and the original (v1) code behind the query metrics/analysis part of Percona Monitoring and Management. I’ve also published a couple of packages related to query metrics: go-mysql/slowlog and go-mysql/query.

Galera replication technology, a key component of Percona XtraDB Cluster, suffered from a remote code execution vulnerability. Percona has been working with the vendor since early September on this issue and has made releases available to address the problem.

Applicability

A malicious party with access to the WSREP service port (4567/TCP) as well as prerequisite knowledge of the configuration of the Galera cluster name is required in order to exploit this vulnerability, which leads to remote code execution via the WSREP protocol. 

Fixes are available in Percona XtraDB Cluster versions:

>= 8.0.20-11.2

>= …

ProxySQL is proud to announce the latest release of ProxySQL version 2.0.15 on the 30th of October 2020

ProxySQL is a high performance, high availability, protocol aware proxy for MySQL, with a GPL license! It can be downloaded here or alternatively from the ProxySQL Repository, and freely usable and accessible according to the GNU GPL v3.0 license.

Release Overview Highlights

ProxySQL v2.0.15 is a patch release comprising of minor backward compatible changes and bug fixes.

The most interesting highlight of this release is the introduction of ARMv8 64-bit packages which have been compiled for CentOS-RHEL 7/8, Debian 9/10 and Ubuntu 18/20 as well as a Docker image available on our …

Every single year new products and new versions of the leading tools enter the market. Their providers compete, offering database specialists more and more features. Thus, users have a whole bunch of possibilities to achieve their goals with the best-fit solutions. The only challenge remaining is which tool to use.  MySQL Workbench is one of […]

Join the replay of this webinar which discusses the use of geo-distributed active/active MySQL clusters for Telco providers, and on how to cost-effectively provide worldwide mobile roaming access with cloud-based Tungsten MySQL clusters.

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