MySQL 8.0.0 exists.
For general impressions we already have comments by Giuseppe Maxia and Stewart Smith and Serdar Yegulalp.
Two new features looked important to me: modern UCA collations, and roles. So I downloaded and tried them out.
Modern UCA collations
MySQL is going to switch to utf8mb4 for the default character set and add collations based on the the latest version of the Unicode Collation Algorithm (UCA 9.0.0). I still see …
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