Village News: MySQL/Database News (8 April 2026)

Dominic Preuss

08 Apr 2026 — 3 min read

As part of building the MySQL Community, we are going to publish a curated overview of MySQL and database news 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 only)

MySQL 8.0 Is Reaching End of Life. Here Are Your Options

TL;DR - Along with many others, we wrote our guide to your options for MySQL 8.0 EOL.

Writing My Own Extension for Village SQL Part I

TL;DR - Real world experience on writing extensions for VillageSQL. Good feedback - thank you!

Percona Bug Report: March 2026

TL;DR - List of bug report updates from Percona on MySQL

Announcing ProxySQL 3.0.7, 3.1.7, and 4.0.7

TL;DR - New features for ProxySQL released including protocol hardening and Zstd Compression.

Why dbdeployer Matters to Me — and Why ProxySQL Took Over Its Maintenance

TL;DR - New maintainer for dbdeployer project

Optimize full-text search in Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon Aurora MySQL

TL;DR - Amazon continues to ship new features for AWS RDS for MySQL.

Announcing Fabric Mirroring integration for Azure Database for MySQL - Public Preview at FabCon 2026

TL;DR - Azure shipping preview of new integration to their data platform Fabric. Appears to be similar to the ZeroETL feature on AWS.

Sysbench vs MySQL on a small server: no new regressions, many old ones

TL;DR - Mark continues to ship interesting benchmarks - this one on historical regression.

JF's Blog - Thanks AWS Open Source

TL;DR - The MySQL community gets some support from AWS Open Source to fund Planet MySQL and JF’s efforts in other database communities.

Database News:

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era - Anthropic

TL;DR - This appears to be a serious “AHA” moment for all software, including databases, where the new Anthropic model Mythos can detect (and exploit) vulnerabilities in foundational software. To address, there is a group of industry companies working to address before releasing the model broadly.

A response to Percona’s 2026 MySQL ecosystem benchmark: useful data, but not a realistic MariaDB comparison

TL;DR - MariaDB’s response to the Percona benchmark with clarifying information and counter-points to some of the findings.

Spin up Postgres in a second: How We Built Serverless PG for Agents.

TL;DR - Deeplake - another serverless PostgreSQL offering focused on agentic workloads with branching and merging of data.

Agentic coding at ClickHouse

TL;DR - Interesting comments on using AI with database systems including an AI Policy.

Supabase docs over SSH

TL;DR - A novel way to expose your docs to the AI models via SSH. Everyone needs to think differently about how to expose your resources to the models.

How AI has suddenly become much more useful to open-source developers - ZDNET

TL;DR - Interesting perspective that AI might help save open source and not replace it with custom implementations of everything.