On July 1st, 3 new releases of MySQL came out. Indeed, we released the next 8.0 (8.0.38), the first update of the 8.4 LTS (8.4.1), and the very first 9.0 as Innovation Release. We now support 3 versions of the most popular Open Source database.

With these releases, we also want to thank all the great contributors who send patches to MySQL.

For some time now, all the contributors have also been highlighted in the Release Notes, but we never thank enough, so let’s take back the good habits of listing them in a dedicated blog post.

Some contributions were merged into multiple versions. Let’s have a look at all these contributions:

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The latest release of MySQL (October 25th, 2023) is the second Innovation Release of the most popular Open Source database.

This new evolution release brings us ever closer to the very first MySQL LTS Release!

This new Innovation Release already contains contributions from our great Community. MySQL 8.2.0 contains patches from Meta, Nikolai Kostrigin, Meng-Hsiu Chiang (Amazon), Richard Dang, Shaohua Wang, Hao Lu, Wen He (Tencent), Yin Peng (Tencent) and Daniël van Eeden.

Let’s have a look at all these contributions:

Server Compiling

• #111549 – Made additional improvements to WITH_ZLIB functionality – Nikolai Kostrigin
• #111467 – Building with WITH_ZLIB=”system” would break the MySQL build as it failed to find …

The latest release of MySQL (July 18th, 2023) marks a new era for the most popular Open Source database, with the very first Innovation Release (8.1.0). More will follow before MySQL’s very first LTS Release sees the light of day.

This new Innovation Release already contains contributions from our great Community. MySQL 8.1.0 contains patches from Meta, Allen Long, Daniël van Eeden, Brent Gardner, Yura Sorokin (Percona) and Kento Takeuchi.

Let’s have a look at all these contributions:

MySQL Connector Python

• #93643 – Contribution: fix recv compress bug – Allen Long
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The latest MySQL release has been published on April 18th, 2023 (my eldest daughter’s birthday).This new version of MySQL brings a new service that I’m excited to play with: Performance Schema Server Telemetry Traces Service. MySQL 8.0.33 contains bug fixes and contributions from our great MySQL community.

I would like to thank all contributors on behalf of the entire Oracle MySQL team !

MySQL 8.0.33 contains patches from Mikael Ronström, Evgeniy Patlan, Dmitry Lenev, HC Duan, Marcelo Altmann, Facebook, Nico Pay, Dan McCombs, Yewei Xu, Niklas Keller, Mayank Mohindra and Alex Xing.

Let’s have a look at all these contributions:

MySQL NDB Cluster

• #103814 – ClusterJ partition key scratch buffer size too small – …

The latest MySQL release has been published on January 17th, 2023. MySQL 8.0.32 contains some new features and bug fixes. As usual, it also contains contributions from our great MySQL Community.

I would like to thank all contributors on behalf of the entire Oracle MySQL team !

MySQL 8.0.32 contains patches from Facebook/Meta, Alexander Reinert, Luke Weber, Vilnis Termanis, Naoki Someya, Maxim Masiutin, Casa Zhang from Tencent, Jared Lundell, Zhe Huang, Rahul Malik from Percona, Andrey Turbanov, Dimitry Kudryavtsev, Marcelo Altmann from Percona, Sander van de Graaf, Kamil Holubicki from Percona, Laurynas Biveinis, Seongman Yang, Yamasaki Tadashi, Octavio Valle, Zhao Rong, Henning Pöttker, Gabrielle Gervasi and Nico Pay.

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Once again, the latest version of MySQL 8.0 includes several contributions from the MySQL Community.

MySQL 8.0.31 was released on October 11th 2022.

I would like to thank all contributors on behalf of the entire Oracle MySQL team !

This new release contains patches from Facebook/Meta, Dennis Gao, Lou Shuai, Caza Zhang, Zhang Simon from Tencent, Dimitry Kudryavtsev, Rahul Malik from Percona, Alex Xing, Marcelo Altmann from Percona, Matthew Steeples, Adam Croot, Luis Pinto and Evgeniy Patlan from Percona for all his patches on MySQL Shell.

Here is the list of the above contributions and related bugs:

Replication

• #101056 – Ack_receiver may lost the slave semi-sync ack due to net timeout – Dennis Gao …

During my summer holidays, we released MySQL 8.0.30.

MySQL 8.0.30 was released on July 26th 2022. If you are using 8.0.29, it’s highly recommended to upgrade as there was a bug corrupting InnoDB files in a rare and specific case.

This new release contains several contributions from our awesome Community and on behalf of the entire MySQL Team, as usual, I would like to thanks all our contributors !

This new release contains patches from Facebook/Meta, Marcelo Altmann (Percona), Mengchu Shi, Zhou Xinjing (Tencent), Yuxiang Jiang (Tencent), Namrata Bhave, Hongyuan Li, Alexey Kopytov, Wei Zhao, Piotr Jurkiewicz, Dennis Gao, Zheng Lai, Bin Wang, Hao Wu (Tencent), Weijie Wu and Rahul Malik (Percona).

Once again, thank you all for your great contributions and to the companies you are working for.

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When it’s time for a new MySQL release, it’s also time to thank our contributors !

Released on April 26th, MySQL 8.0.29 contains several contributions from our awesome Community and on behalf of the entire MySQL Team, I would like to thank you all !

This new releases contains patches from Vilnis Termanis, Luke Weber, Meik Milevczik, Song Zhibai, Zheng Lai, Øystein Grøvlen, Facebook, Biran Yue, Hope Lee, Rahul Malik, Christopher Chavez, Chen Yi, Ning PeiPei, Jianjian Song, Jack Wotherspon and Bin Wang.

Once again, thank you all for your great contributions and to the company you are working for.

Here is the list of the above contributions and related bugs:

Clients / Connectors

• #81519 Connector/Python: Guarantee file closing of input files in optionfiles module – Vilnis Termanis
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Last week, Jan 18th, we started 2022 with a new release of the MySQL Server suite (Router, Shell, Connectors, …).

MySQL is Open Source and each release contains contributions from our great Community. Let me thanks all the contributors on behalf of the entire MySQL Team: Thank you !

As Dave already mentioned already in his MySQL 8.0.28 Release Note Commentary post, this new version of MySQL includes contributions from Song Zhibai, Venkatesh Prasad Venugopal, Zheng Lai, Tingu Wei, Casa Zhang, Kevin Michel, our Øystein Grøvlen before his comeback, Tsubasa Tanaka, Brian Yue, Murakami Kohei, Casa Zhang, Hope Lee, Rahul Malik, Hobert Lu, Zhai Weixiang and Facebook.

Once again, thank you all for your …

In October 10th was released the latest GA version of MySQL: 8.0.27.

As usual, it’s highly advised to read the release notes to get informed about the changes and bug fixed.

MySQL is Open Source and each release contains contributions from our great Community. Let me thanks all the contributors on behalf of the entire MySQL Team: Thank you !

MySQL 8.0.27 includes contributions from Adam Cable, Lukasz Sanek, Kaiwang Chen, Shaohua Wang,
Øystein Grøvlen, Zheng Lai, Huqing Yan, Biran Yue, Xiaoyu Wang, Hong Wang,
Kevin Michel, Björn Michael, Kaige Ye, Yubao Liu and Facebook.

Once again, thank you all for your great contributions.

Here is the list of the above contributions and related bugs:

Clients / Connectors

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