Oracle announced the immediate availability of a new Development Milestone Release (DMR) for MySQL 5.7. To meet the demands of today’s web, cloud, and embedded applications, the new release extends the performance, scalability and reliability of MySQL. In addition, Oracle announced the availability of several other MySQL product releases and early access features.
Available for download in the MySQL Developer Zone, MySQL DMR 5.7.4 delivers improvements in replication, security, and instrumentation resulting in significantly higher performance and improved manageability over MySQL 5.6.
MySQL DMR 5.7.4 provides performance and throughput improvements for Solid State Disks (SSD) and improved InnoDB buffer pool and metadata locking deliver higher throughput, performance and scalability.
The Release Candidate of MySQL Fabric, providing high availability management and scale out through sharding is also available. MySQL Fabric is included in the Release Candidate version of MySQL Utilities 1.4.2.
MySQL Workbench 6.1 is generally available today, delivering additional capabilities for performance assessment and query optimization.
In addition, Oracle is providing early access to features under development including Geographic Information System (GIS) and multi-source improvements, and a preview of MySQL Cluster 7.4, for community testing and feedback through http://labs.mysql.com.
“Oracle continues to invest in MySQL innovation by providing increased performance, scalability, reliability and manageability,” said Tomas Ulin, vice president, MySQL Engineering, Oracle. “The latest MySQL 5.7 development milestone release delivers enhanced performance and management features to the MySQL community. By encouraging ongoing community participation and following the “release early, release often” model, we help shorten the feedback-to-delivery cycle and allow users to get faster access to improved product capabilities and quality.”
