MySQL has grown over the years, with much richer functionality and indeed support for whole new usage scenarios. However, all this goodness comes along with another kind of growth, namely a considerable increase in the size of the binary distribution of MySQL Server. We’re now taking some quite significant steps to address this. In many cases package size is not really a problem: most... Read More
MySQL is Ready for Fedora 30
Fedora 30 is out today. We congratulate the Fedora community on another rev of their favorite Linux distro. As usual, we support the latest Fedora from day one, and we have added the following MySQL products to our official MySQL yum repos: MySQL Server (8.0.16 and 5.7.26) Connector C++ 8.0.16 Connector Python 8.0.16 Connector ODBC 8.0.16 Connector Java 8.0.16 Router... Read More
Announcing MySQL Server 8.0.16, 5.7.26 and 5.6.44
MySQL Server 8.0.16, 5.7.26 and 5.6.44, 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... Read More
Announcing MySQL Server 8.0.15
MySQL Server 8.0.15, a new version of the popular Open Source Database Management System, has been released. This release is recommended for use on production systems. For an overview of what’s new, please see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-nutshell.html For information on installing the release on new servers, please see the MySQL installation documentation... Read More
Announcing MySQL Server 8.0.14, 5.7.25 and 5.6.43
MySQL Server 8.0.14, 5.7.25 and 5.6.43, 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... Read More
Fedora 29 Is Here and MySQL Is Ready
Fedora 29 was released earlier today, and we congratulate the Fedora community on the latest iteration of many people’s favourite Linux distro. Following our tradition of rapidly adding support for new Linux distro versions, we have added the following MySQL products to our official MySQL yum repos: MySQL Server (8.0.13 and 5.7.24) Connector C++ 8.0.13 Connector Python... Read More
Multi-arch Docker Images for MySQL Server
Since the new 8.0.13 release we publish docker images for a new architecture: aarch64, as part of our normal release process. This means that the mysql/mysql-server docker image will work on both amd64 and aarch64 architectures. The newest images are as usually available on dockerhub. On amd64 machines: $ docker pull mysql/mysql-server:8.0.13 $ docker run -ti mysql/mysql-server:8.0.13 mysql... Read More
Adding Support in MySQL 8 for openSUSE and SLE 15
With the release of MySQL 8.0.13 yesterday, we added support in MySQL 8 for SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 15, the brand new version of one of the key enterprise Linux distros out there. At the same time, we also introduced support for SLE 15’s community twin, openSUSE Leap 15. So as of yesterday, all MySQL 8 server and client products are available both for SLE and openSUSE 15. Now, with... Read More
Announcing MySQL Server 8.0.13, 5.7.24, 5.6.42, and 5.5.62
MySQL Server 8.0.13, 5.7.24, 5.6.42, and 5.5.62, 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... Read More
Container Testing for MySQL Server
Traditionally infrastructure management is a manual task, with sysadmins managing rather static servers. The automation capabilities of modern cloud platforms have changed this way of working: Infrastructure is often described “as code,” e.g. in a git repository, and changes are made by infrastructure management systems automatically. As a result infrastructure is much less static... Read More