MySQL Server 5.7.20, 5.6.38, and 5.5.58, 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
Category Archives: Announcements
Docker Secrets and MySQL Password Management
In this posting we will look at currently recommended ways of managing passwords in MySQL Docker containers and explore whether the recently introduced concept of Docker Secrets could play a role in this area. Managing runtime secrets in Docker has traditionally been hard to do securely. The MySQL Docker images have typically offered various ways to set the MySQL root password, where some... Read More
Announcing MySQL Server 5.7.19, 5.6.37, and 5.5.57
MySQL Server 5.7.19, 5.6.37, and 5.5.57, 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
MySQL Support for Fedora 26 Is Here
Fedora 26 is scheduled to arrive today, July 11, and we congratulate the highly productive Fedora community on another rev of many people’s favorite distro. We’re continuing our tradition of supporting new distro releases from day one, and Fedora 26 users will find the following MySQL products in the official MySQL yum repos: MySQL Server 5.7.18 and 8.0.1 (which is a preview... Read More
Docker Images for MySQL Cluster
We’re constantly working to improve packaging and distribution of MySQL products. We have official Docker images for MySQL Server and we use Docker images to provide easy to use previews of upcoming and experimental setups and features in our products. Today we’re dockerizing another major product by releasing preview Docker images for MySQL Cluster. In this blog post, we’ll... Read More
Announcing MySQL Server 5.5.56
MySQL Server 5.5.56, 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/5.5/en/mysql-nutshell.html For information on installing the release on new servers, please see the MySQL installation documentation... Read More
Announcing MySQL Server 5.7.18, 5.6.36, and 5.5.55
MySQL Server 5.7.18, 5.6.36, and 5.5.55, 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
Give me a MySQL and Make it Snappy!
MySQL is available for a huge variety of platforms, in a wide range of packaging formats and through many channels. Part of our mission is to keep up with the times by making sure that all MySQL products are available where people expect and need them to be. As part of that we have invested a lot of work in modernizing our Linux packaging and distribution, improving our story on Windows and... Read More
Announcing MySQL Server 5.7.17, 5.6.35, and 5.5.54
MySQL Server 5.7.17, 5.6.35, and 5.5.54, 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 5.7.16, 5.6.34, and 5.5.53
MySQL Server 5.7.16, 5.6.34, and 5.5.53, 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