MySQL Engineering Blogs
MySQL Cluster Manager 1.4.5 released!
MySQL Cluster Manager 1.4.5 is now available for download from My Oracle Support.
Overview
MCM 1.4.5 contains further stability and usability improvements of MySQL Cluster Manager.
The 1.4.5 release bundles MySQL Cluster 7.5.9. However, since MySQL Cluster 7.5.7, system tables contain sufficient...
MySQL 8.0.4 : New Default Authentication Plugin : caching_sha2_password
Starting with MySQL 8.0.4, we are changing the default authentication plugin for MySQL server from mysql_native_password to caching_sha2_password. Correspondingly, libmysqlclient will now use caching_sha2_password as the default authentication mechanism, too.
Why did we do it?
The advantage of...
Replication Features in MySQL 8.0.4
MySQL 8 second release candidate is out (MySQL 8.0.4). Besides fixes to replication issues we have also delivered a couple of enhancements in this release. Let me quickly summarize them.
Additional instrumentation for Group Replication (WL#9856). We have instrumented mutexes and condition...
MySQL 8.0.4, OpenSSL, and MySQL Community Edition
Starting with the MySQL Community 8.0.4-RC we are unifying on OpenSSL as the default TLS/SSL library for both MySQL Enterprise Edition and MySQL Community Edition. Previously, MySQL Community Edition used YaSSL.
Why make this change?
Community Requests – Supporting OpenSSL in the MySQL...
The MySQL 8.0.4 Release Candidate is available
The MySQL Development team is very happy to announce that MySQL 8.0.4, the second 8.0 Release Candidate (RC2), is now available for download at dev.mysql.com (8.0.4 adds features to 8.0.3, 8.0.2, 8.0.1 and 8.0.0). The source code is available at GitHub.…
List of Conferences & Events w/ MySQL, January - March 2018!
As a tradition (and follow up of the previous announcement posted on Oct 23, & Sep 15, 2017) we would like to inform you about a conferences & events we - MySQL Community Team - are attending together with MySQL experts in the first quarter of 2018. Please be aware that the list does not...
Announcing MySQL Server 5.7.21, 5.6.39, and 5.5.59
MySQL Server 5.7.21, 5.6.39, and 5.5.59, new versions of the popular Open Source Database Management System, have been released. These releases are recommended for use on production systems. For an overview of what’s new, please see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-nutshell.html...
Row numbering, ranking: how to use LESS user variables in MySQL queries
User variables, even though not part of standard SQL, are great objects in MySQL. They allow to keep some “state” for the life of a session: a session can execute a statement to compute a value, store that value in a user variable, and use it in all next statements.…
MySQL Community Server
New Releases 
- Connector/Net 6.9
(6.9.11 GA) - Connector/Net 6.10
(6.10.6 GA) - MySQL Shell 8.0
(8.0.4 rc) - MySQL Cluster 7.4
(7.4.19 GA) - MySQL Community Server 8.0
(8.0.4 rc)
MySQL Quickpoll
Which backup features do you require for your MySQL database backups?
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