Open Source
An interview of Dominic Preuss from VillageSQL by Firas Sozan from Silicon Mind.
Welcome back to Village News, our curated roundup of MySQL and database news. This week, AWS contributed a fix for large-transaction binlog stalls to community MySQL, and MariaDB launched Enterprise Platform 2027. If you want to get these updates, just subscribe to the blog. Enjoy! MySQL News Note: Aggregated
Open Source
VillageSQL plans and builds VillageSQL Server, the open source MySQL fork that adds an extension framework, in public, and every contributor follows the same written rules.
Welcome back to Village News, our curated roundup of MySQL and database news. This week, plans for FOSDEM 2027 took shape, with a new M-Ecosystem devroom and MySQL Belgian Days opening their calls for papers. If you want to get these updates, just subscribe to the blog. Enjoy! MySQL
MySQL
The design choices behind the VillageSQL Extension Framework, from simpler functions to parameterized types to porting PostgreSQL’s hstore. Watch the MySQL BR Conf 2026 talk.
AI
PostgreSQL has a rapidly evolving vector ecosystem. MySQL is earlier on that road, but the community is hard at work catching up. MariaDB ships its own HNSW index, Google engineers have shared a ScaNN-based vector index on MySQL's own vector index proposal, Percona is building an HNSW
Welcome back to Village News, our curated roundup of MySQL and database news. This issue covers two weeks, with MySQL 26.10 landing at the end of them. If you want to get these updates, just subscribe to the blog. Enjoy! MySQL News Note: Aggregated MySQL news can be found
MySQL
We are pleased to announce the launch of VillageSQL Server 0.0.7. You now have a License to Query (please note this post contains lots of James Bond 007 database puns). In this release, the mysql-8.4 build tracks MySQL Server 8.4.11, the mysql-9.7
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Welcome back to Village News, our curated roundup of MySQL and database news. If you want to get these updates, just subscribe to the blog. Enjoy! MySQL News Note: Aggregated MySQL news can be found at Planet for MySQL Community and Planet MySQL (Oracle curated) MySQL 26.10.0 Early
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become a standard way for AI agents to discover the tools an application, database, or service offers. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity, et al. can connect to an MCP server, ask it what tools are available, and call these tools instead of figuring out
Welcome back. This issue covers five weeks rather than the usual one — the gap since the August issue took in Percona Live Amsterdam, the launch of the OurSQL Foundation, and the run-up to the MySQL Galera Cluster end of life on 30 September. If you want to get these
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MySQL 9.x added the VECTOR data type so you can store an embedding. You get a VECTOR column, functions to convert to and from text, and VECTOR_DIM() to ask how wide a vector is. What you don't get is a way to compare two vectors. The
There are a few cryptography tasks that are common to many backends. For example, you should store passwords such that a database leak doesn't expose them, you should sign payloads so the receiving side can verify them, you should keep a column's data unreadable outside the
An engineer leaves your company. You disable their single sign-on account, and their access to the wiki, the cloud console, and the CI system goes with it. Typically, access to database resources doesn't follow such a simple plan. Database user and role maintenance too often happens within
VillageSQL Server 0.0.6 is now available. This release advances the mainline to MySQL Server 8.4.11 and adds support for MySQL Server 9.7.2 and Percona Server 8.4.10. Highlights of this release include the following: * An extension can now log you in, so your
When something goes wrong inside MySQL, the server says so in the error log. It's what administrators already watch. Every entry carries a severity and an error code, and you can query it from performance_schema.error_log like any other table. It is the server's
NOTE: We are back after a summer break! Hope you enjoyed the beach and long summer nights. As part of building the MySQL Community, we are going to publish a curated overview of MySQL and database news and events that you might have missed over the last period. If you
VillageSQL Server 0.0.5 is now available (and marked as the stable release for installs). This release is focused on the extension lifecycle: upgrading an extension in place, pinning the exact version you install, and seeing what's running. The extension framework also adds variable-length custom types
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