Village News: MySQL News + Events (18 August 2026)
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.
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MySQL News:
Note: Aggregated MySQL news can be found at Planet for MySQL Community and Planet MySQL (Oracle curated)
More to Explore: What’s New on Planet MySQL
TL;DR - Scott Stroz and team are doing major updates to Planet MySQL to better align with community contributions.
Replicating from InnoDB into a DuckDB storage engine - Percona
TL;DR - Getting your data from MySQL to DuckDB for analytical workloads
From Replication to Resilience: Miguel Araújo on Building the Operational Layer of MySQL High Availability – ODBMS.org
TL;DR - Insights from building AdminAPI in MySQL
The DuckDB MySQL engine at 500 GB - Percona
TL;DR - Update from Percona on the project to connect DuckDB as storage engine
Concurrency vs. Throughput: why more parallelism can make databases slower — PlanetScale
TL;DR - Battle story from Planetscale on concurrency trade-offs
MySQL 8.0.17 GTID Crash Safety Improvement
TL;DR - Post from Jean-François Gagné on GTID crash safety
MySQL Development as it Happens – Innovating Together
TL;DR - Oracle update on the MySQL Contributor summit and efforts to better engage the community for contributions.
MySQL July 2026 GA Releases Now Available
TL;DR - MySQL 26.7.0 is the first generally available Innovation release following MySQL 9.7 LTS and the first MySQL release to use the new calendar-versioning model.
TLS Certificate Pinning and Best Practices in Azure Database for MySQL - Microsoft
TL;DR - Azure updates to Azure Database for MySQL
Amazon RDS for MySQL supports MySQL 9.7 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment - AWS
TL;DR - Amazon RDS for MySQL supports 5.7 (extended support), 8.0 (extended support) and 8.4. This is the first step to supporting 9.7.
A first look at MySQL 26.7 Early Access
TL;DR - Ronald Bradford gives his thoughts on new features in 26.7 Early Access release.
MySQL 9.7 Community Edition: Smarter Join Planning with the Hypergraph Optimizer
TL;DR - Hypergraph Optimizer is the new improved query optimizer that was developed for Heatwave and is now in Community Edition 9.7. Lots of good improvements here.
OurSQL Foundation Gives MySQL Community an Independent Voice - LinuxInsider
TL;DR - Article on the OurSQL Foundation work including quotes from Matt Lord (Planetscale) and Vadim Tkachenko (Percona)
VillageSQL Extensions with versioning
TL;DR - Ronald Bradford tests out VillageSQL extension upgrades and version pinning.
Curated MySQL Data Sets for Realistic Testing
TL;DR - Ronald Bradford puts together a curated list of data sets to use to test MySQL
Database News:
What's new in Postgres 19 — PlanetScale
TL;DR - Planetscale does an overview of recent improvements to Postgres
Extending MariaDB with Native Aggregate Plugins: Laying the Groundwork for HyperLogLog
TL;DR - MariaDB Foundation continues to focus on extensibility with aggregate plugins
Hear Ye, Hear Ye: A Guide to MariaDB’s Governance Model - MariaDB
TL;DR - Lots of conversations about Governance Models (<cough> Oracle </cough>) for open source databases so MariaDB Foundation clarifies their model.
MariaDB 12.3: Faster Vector Search with Matryoshka Optimization
TL;DR - MariaDB improves performance of vector search
Upcoming Database Events:
VLDB 2026 | 52nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VillageSQL is a sponsor)
Aug 31st - Sep 4th, 2026
Boston, MA, USA
PostgreSQL Community Event PGConf.EU 2026
September 20-23, 2026
Valencia, Spain
Percona Live - Amsterdam (VillageSQL is a sponsor)
September 9-11, 2026
Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
MySQL BR Conf 2026 (VillageSQL is a sponsor)
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
PGConf.EU
October 20–23, 2026 (PostgreSQL Europe)
Valencia, Spain
Oracle AI World
October 25–28, 2026
Las Vegas, NV
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America | LF Events (VillageSQL is a sponsor)
November 9-12
Salt Lake City, Utah
