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Presentation of some of the new features of MySQL 8.0.20 released on April 27th, 2020.

Dual-password capability makes it possible to seamlessly perform credential changes without downtime.

DBA can configure user accounts such that too many consecutive login failures cause temporary account locking.

MySQL 8.0 has introduced an optional behavior that authorize users to change their password only if they could provide the current password.