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Village News: MySQL News + Events (11 June 2026)

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 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)

Opening Up the MySQL Bug Process
TL;DR - Oracle makes more progress on opening the development process for MySQL to include open bug tracking.

MySQL Contributor Summit 2026: Collaboration, Innovation, and Community-Driven Development
TL;DR - Summary from Oracle on the MySQL Contributor Summit

MySQL 9.7 LTS Is Here: Upgrade and Modernize on a Stronger Community Edition
TL;DR - Summary of LTS 9.7 release with features converted from Enterprise Edition to Community Edition

Your MySQL Schema is Already a REST API
TL;DR - New VillageSQL extension to support REST API on MySQL database similar to PostgREST extension

Percona Operator for MySQL (PXC) 1.20.0: Automatic Storage Resizing, TLS Certificate Rotation, and ARM64 Support
TL;DR - New features in the Percona k8s operator

Producing Two Sample T-Test statistics with SQL
TL;DR - Community-contributed extension for VillageSQL with statistics functions

Database News:

MariaDB Vector Support Upstreamed to Open-WebUI: Single-Database RAG Just Got Faster and Simpler
TL;DR - Support in Open-WebUI for MariaDB vector features for RAG workloads

How Fast Is DoltLite? | DoltHub Blog
TL;DR - Benchmarking on DoltLite, the drop-in replacement for SQLite

The State Layer Behind Every Good AI Agent
TL;DR - TiDB as a store for agent memory

Upcoming Database Events:

Systems Distributed - TigerBeetle's Conference
July 27-28, 2026
Boston, MA, USA

VLDB 2026 | 52nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Aug 31st - Sep 4th, 2026
Boston, MA, USA

PostgreSQL Community Event PGConf.EU 2026
October 20-23, 2026
Valencia, Spain

Percona Live - Amsterdam
September 9-11, 2026
Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

MySQL BR Conf 2026
September 26, 2026
São Paulo, Brazil

Postgres Summit US (formerly PGConf.NYC)
September 30 – October 2, 2026 (PgUS)
New York City, NY

High Performance Transaction Systems (HPTS)
October 4-7, 2026
Asilomar Conference Grounds
Pacific Grove, CA

Oracle AI World
October 25–28, 2026
Las Vegas, NV

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America | LF Events
November 9-12
Salt Lake City, Utah

Your MySQL Schema is Already a REST API

You have a table. You need to serve it over HTTP. The standard path requires you to write a service in Node or Python or Go, wire up routes, translate query parameters into WHERE clauses, serialize rows as JSON, add auth middleware, deploy it separately from the database, and then

Village News: MySQL/Database News + Events (5 June 2026)

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 want to get these updates, just subscribe to the blog. Enjoy! MySQL News: Note: Aggregated MySQL news

Happy Path, Escape Hatch, and the Space Between

When you design an extensibility API, you face a tension: make it easy, or make it powerful? We think the answer is both — but not all at once. Here's how we think about it at VillageSQL, illustrated through VDFs, our modern replacement for MySQL's UDF system.

Extend MySQL Using Rust

VillageSQL launched with C++ as the language for writing extensions — C++ is familiar territory for MySQL developers. Rust has become a go-to language for systems and infrastructure developers: the same people who build database connectors, storage engines, and performance-critical services. VillageSQL's new Rust SDK adds it