This summer, MySQL Community conversations continued across JAPAC through a series of in-person events. Heather VanCura, Vice President of External Standards & Community Engagement at Oracle, visited MySQL communities in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan to meet with user groups, developers, customers, universities, media, and open source community leaders. The goal was simple: listen, learn, and […]

The inaugural MySQL Contributor Summit, held in May 2026, brought together Oracle engineers, customers, partners, and members of the open source community for a full day of technical collaboration focused on the future of MySQL. The Summit featured more than 20 sessions covering topics including AI integration, performance, observability, replication, developer experience, extensibility, and community […]

MySQL 26.7 is the initial MySQL Innovation release following the MySQL 9.7 LTS release and uses the new yy.mmCalVer versioning model for quarterly Innovation releases. This Early Access release provides a preview of selected functionality planned for the MySQL Community Server package and gives users an opportunity to evaluate upcoming changes before general availability. Download MySQL […]

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.  […]

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 […]

On April 21st, 2026, we released MySQL 9.7.0, the latest Long-Term Support release. As always, we are grateful to the MySQL community for helping improve MySQL with bug reports, patches, pull requests, and continued feedback. Community contributions help make MySQL better for everyone, and we are happy to recognize the contributors whose work was included […]

Understanding the New Cadence: Quarterly CPUs, Targeted CSPUs, and Transitioning to Calendar Versioning MySQL is updating its release model to make releases easier to understand, plan for, and follow: The goal is not simply to change the number on a release. The goal is to give users, DBAs, developers, Linux distributions, cloud platforms, and ecosystem […]

On May 26, The MySQL Community Team at Oracle welcomed MySQL contributors, customers, partners, and community members to the MySQL Contributor Summit at the Oracle Redwood Shores campus, with additional participants joining remotely.  The Contributor Summit brought Oracle engineers and community contributors together to exchange ideas, share ongoing work, and explore opportunities to collaborate on […]

The MySQL team has been working hard to foster innovation, strengthen collaboration with our community, support meaningful contributions, and grow the broader MySQL ecosystem through greater openness and transparency. We believe MySQL is at its best when everyone can see how progress is being made, where work is happening, and how issues move through the […]

Modern applications often pass JSON back and forth with the database server. With MySQL, we have had great JSON support, but working with relational data as JSON usually meant generating documents manually with built-in JSON functions. When an application sent JSON back to the server, we often had to break that document apart and write […]