The latest from the MySQL community

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MySQL News:

Note: Aggregated MySQL news can be found at Planet for MySQL Community and Planet MySQL (Oracle curated)

The Next Phase of MySQL Community Engagement: Accelerating Participation and Collaboration

TL;DR - Big news! Oracle announces a new governance model for MySQL …

Keeping up with the MySQL ecosystem is becoming increasingly challenging. Every release introduces new features, performance improvements, security enhancements, and cloud capabilities. While the official documentation is comprehensive, it is not always easy to quickly identify what really matters.

To help with that, I've published a new edition of my MySQL & MySQL HeatWave Report, covering the most important announcements around MySQL 9.7 LTS and MySQL HeatWave 9.7.
Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/freshdaz/mysql-and-mysql-heatwave-report-june-2026

The post MySQL & MySQL HeatWave Report – June 2026 first appeared on Data Daz (dasini.net) - Data Systems, AI, and Real-World Insights.

Update, July 1, 2026: Percona Server for MySQL 8.4.10-10 is now available. It carries the content originally planned for 8.4.9 plus the upstream security fixes. See the 8.4.10-10 release notes. 9.7.1 is still on the way; we’ll link its release notes here when it ships.

Upstream MySQL published an out-of-schedule release this week with two high-severity CVE fixes. We’ve pulled those fixes into our next builds and are skipping the two versions we had already queued: Percona Server for MySQL 8.4.9 and 9.7.0.

These fixes arrived through Oracle’s new monthly Critical Security Patch Updates (CSPUs), which Oracle announced begin May 28, 2026. CSPUs ship targeted …

One of the key themes of the MySQL Community over the past year has been increasing transparency, participation, and collaboration.  Through Public Discussions, Design Proposals, the MySQL Developer Guide, GitHub collaboration, and the MySQL Contributor Summit, we have been working to create more opportunities for the community to engage with the future direction of MySQL.  […]

After years of MySQL development happening largely behind closed doors, Oracle has been making real progress towards making the MySQL project more open and community-oriented. Thanks and recognition should go to Heather VanCura and the MySQL team for driving these major initiatives which require heavy lifting on a 30-year-old project. As active members of the MySQL community and as a company committed to open source, VillageSQL is encouraged by Oracle's initiatives towards more open MySQL development.

This week’s announcement of a new governance model and a new Steering Committee for MySQL are positive steps but don't get us all the way to fully open source. This new governance model is the most significant structural change to MySQL's community engagement in a long time. It deserves a genuine read, not reflexive cynicism, and not uncritical celebration either. You can read the announcement from Oracle …

As part of our ongoing MySQL Community engagement series, we are pleased to invite you to Public Discussion #5, taking place on July 15, 2026, at 7:00 AM PT. Over the past several months, these public discussions have helped us continue the conversation around MySQL Community Edition, roadmap transparency, contribution paths, GitHub collaboration, and ways […]

MySQL Enterprise Edition includes powerful audit filtering capabilities, but writing audit filter JSON by hand can be tedious and error-prone. The JSON model is flexible, which is exactly what makes it useful, but it also means that a small typo, a missing event class, or an incorrectly assigned user can change what does or does […]

For over 30 years, MySQL has grown through the contributions, feedback, and collaboration of a global community of developers, database administrators, customers, partners, educators, and open source advocates. That community has helped make MySQL one of the world’s most widely used open source databases. As the ecosystem continues to grow and evolve, so do the opportunities for collaboration.  Over the past year, we have […]

MySQL offers three different approaches to extending the SQL capabilities with the default product you download and install. These are: User Defined Function (UDF) MySQL Manual MySQL Plugin MySQL Manual MySQL Component MySQL Manual In my prior post I provided a new uuidv function that accepted a numeric argument to return a string of the version of UUID specified.

MySQL offers three different approaches to extending the SQL capabilities with the default product you download and install. These are: User Defined Function (UDF) MySQL Manual MySQL Plugin MySQL Manual MySQL Component MySQL Manual In my prior post I provided a new uuidv function that accepted a numeric argument to return a string of the version of UUID specified.