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I regularly meet with MySQL customers and I’m still a little bit surprised to see critical applications running on “not really” recent versions (to put it mildly) 🙂

The good news is that obviously old versions of MySQL are sufficiently stable and powerful to run the modern business. However, even if I understand that it is sometimes appropriate to freeze all layers of an architecture, it is often a shame not to take advantage of the latest improvements from a performance, stability, security point of view and obviously for the new features that the latest GA provides :

• What’s New in MySQL 5.7? (from MySQL Server team)
• What Is New in MySQL 5.7 (documentation)
• Complete list of new features in MySQL 5.7
• 5.7 : White paper

 

Time being relative, let’s back to the future of MySQL first public releases (not GA) …

 

MySQL 3.22 | 1998

• #1 movie in box office : Saving Private Ryan
• #1 at Billboard’s Top Hot 100 : Too Close – Next
• Event : September 4, Google, Inc. is founded in Menlo Park, California, by Stanford University PhD candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin

 

Sources:
http://dev.cs.ovgu.de/db/mysql/News-3.22.x.html
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1998

 

MySQL 3.23 | 1999

• #1 movie in box office : Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
• #1 at Billboard’s Top Hot 100 : Believe – Cher
• Event : July 22, The first version of MSN Messenger is released by Microsoft

 

Sources:
http://mysql.localhost.net.ar/doc/refman/4.1/en/news-3-23-x.html
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1999

 

MySQL 4.0 | 2001

• #1 movie in box office : Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
• #1 at Billboard’s Top Hot 100 : Hanging by a Moment – Lifehouse
• Event : March 24, The first release of Mac OS X is released as the successor to Mac OS 9 and the Mac OS X Public Beta, which would not cease to function until May 14

 

Sources:
http://mysql.localhost.net.ar/doc/refman/4.1/en/news-4-0-x.html
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_2001

 

MySQL 4.1 | 2003

• #1 movie in box office : The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• #1 at Billboard’s Top Hot 100 : In da Club – 50 Cent
• Event : January 22, The last signal from NASA’s Pioneer 10 spacecraft is received, some 7.6 billion miles from Earth

 

Sources:
http://mysql.localhost.net.ar/doc/refman/4.1/en/news-4-1-x.html
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_2003

 

MySQL 5.0 | 2003

• #1 movie in box office : The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• #1 at Billboard’s Top Hot 100 : In da Club – 50 Cent
• Event : January 22, The last signal from NASA’s Pioneer 10 spacecraft is received, some 7.6 billion miles from Earth

 

Sources:
http://ftp.nchu.edu.tw/MySQL/doc/refman/5.0/en/news-5-0-x.html
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_2003

 

MySQL 5.1 | 2005

• #1 movie in box office : Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
• #1 at Billboard’s Top Hot 100 : We Belong Together – Mariah Carey
• Event : January 14, The Huygens spacecraft lands on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn

 

Sources:
http://ftp.nchu.edu.tw/MySQL/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-x.html
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_2005

 

MySQL 5.5 | 2009

• #1 movie in box office : Avatar
• #1 at Billboard’s Top Hot 100 : Boom Boom Pow – The Black Eyed Peas
• Event : July 22, The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, lasting up to 6 minutes and 38.8 seconds, occurs over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean.

 

Sources:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_2009

 

MySQL 5.6 | 2011

• #1 movie in box office : Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
• #1 at Billboard’s Top Hot 100 : Rolling in the Deep – Adele
• Event : November 26, The Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, the most elaborate Martian exploration vehicle to date, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center. It lands on Mars on August 6, 2012

 

Sources:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_2011

 

MySQL 5.7 | 2013

• #1 movie in box office : The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
• #1 at Billboard’s Top Hot 100 : Thrift Shop – Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz
• Event : December 14, Chinese spacecraft Chang’e 3, carrying the Yutu rover, becomes the first spacecraft to “soft”-land on the Moon since 1976 and the third ever robotic rover to do so

 

Sources:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_2013

 

MySQL 8.0 | 2016

• #1 movie in box office : Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• #1 at Billboard’s Top Hot 100 : Love Yourself – Justin Bieber
• Event : July 26, Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth

 

Sources:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/8.0/en/
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_2016

 

Thanks for using MySQL!

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