I have been asked the MySQL Shell handles BSON and now with today's release of version 8.0.,14, it does.  Version 8.0.13 added a very hand and blazing fast JSON bulk loader you get the ability to map and how the data is converted. The details are at the Conversions for representations of BSON data types page

From the 8.0.14 release notes:

 * The MySQL Shell JSON import utility can now process BSON
       (binary JSON) data types that are represented in JSON
       documents. The data types used in BSON documents are not
       all natively supported by JSON, but can be represented
       using extensions to the JSON format. The import utility
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The MySQL Development team is proud to announce a new version of the MySQL Shell which includes the following features:

• Support for importing BSON data.
• Ability to show column type information when executing SQL.
• Addition of command line options to lower the verbosity when the shell starts.

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Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/C++ 8.0.14 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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Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Shell 8.0.14 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 8.0.14.

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, providing an integrated solution for high availability and scalability using InnoDB based MySQL databases, without requiring advanced MySQL expertise. For more information about how to configure and work with MySQL InnoDB cluster see

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The MySQL Development team is very happy to announce that MySQL 8.0.14 is now available for download at dev.mysql.com. In addition to bug fixes there are a few new features added in this release.  Please download 8.0.14 from dev.mysql.com or from the MySQL  Yum,  APT, or SUSE repositories.…

If you have not purchased your ticket yet for this years FOSDEM MySQL, MariaDB and Friends Community Dinner, hurry! We’ve already sold 2/3 of our tickets since launching tickets sales last week.

The dinner takes place in the same location, on the same day as the  pre-FOSDEM MySQL Day 2019.

Buy your tickets on Eventbrite:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fosdem-mysql-and-friends-community-dinner-2019-tickets-54494889682

We’re looking forward to meeting you all again at Fosdem and the Community Dinner. See you then! Party-Squad – Kenny Gryp,  …

We had a great response to our call for papers, thank you! However great we believe having the conference in Austin, TX will be, moving to a new area of the US is still a leap of faith until we see the numbers. So we’re thankful that so many of you continue to support and take part in our Open Source Database Conference. We have great plans for the event going forward, and look forward to sharing them with you.

In fact, one new initiative is already underway. Instead of having one relatively small committee that reviews all of the papers for all tracks, we are taking a different approach this year. Each track is led by a Percona engineer or manager in the role of “Track Champion”, and they each are establishing a Track Steering Committee to review the submissions for that one track.

There are many benefits to this approach. First of all, it means that folk with in-depth knowledge of a technology review a smaller number of …

Dear MySQL users, 

The MySQL developer tools team announces 8.0.14 as our general available (GA) for MySQL Workbench 8.0. 

For the full list of changes in this revision, visit http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/workbench/en/changes-8-0.html 

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! 

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/J Version 8.0.14 is the GA release of the 8.0
branch of MySQL Connector/J. It is suitable for use with MySQL Server
versions 8.0, 5.7, 5.6, and 5.5. 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-8-0-14.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 8.0.14 GA, see the “Generally Available
(GA) Releases” tab at …

The MySQL Development Team is very happy to announce a new 8.0 Maintenance Release of InnoDB Cluster – 8.0.14!

In addition to bug fixes, 8.0.14 brings exciting new features!

MySQL Shell

For this release, we have focused on extending the AdminAPI with several highly desired features.…