Village News: Village News: MySQL News + Events (1 July 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.
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MySQL News:
Note: Aggregated MySQL news can be found at Planet for MySQL Community and Planet MySQL (Oracle curated)
The Next Phase of MySQL Community Engagement: Accelerating Participation and Collaboration
TL;DR - Big news! Oracle announces a new governance model for MySQL with a steering committee including AWS and GCP.
Open Governance for MySQL: A Step Forward for the Community | AWS Open Source Blog
TL;DR - AWS voices their support for the initiative and gives more details on steering committee seats.
MySQL's New Governance Model: Two steps forward, one step to the side, and one step backwards
TL;DR - We published our thoughts on the new model. It’s a step in the right direction but ultimately doesn’t meet all the asks from the community. Time will tell.
Oracle promises to open up MySQL governance, but the community wants guarantees
TL;DR - Register covers the announcement with quotes from Peter Zaitsev
Oracle promises greater community involvement in MySQL - Techzine Global
TL;DR - Techzine provides additional coverage focused on Microsoft missing from steering committee.
Skipping Percona Server for MySQL 8.4.9 and 9.7.0
TL;DR - Percona has to leap-frog some supported versions of MySQL due to vulnerabilities fixed in newer versions.
Extending MySQL Capabilies with UDFs, Plugins and Components
TL;DR - Blog post on existing ways to extend MySQL.
Database News:
Why I haven't run my databases on Kubernetes - Percona
TL;DR - Percona post on pros and cons of running databases on k8s
The feedback loops behind Kubernetes — PlanetScale
TL;DR - Excellent post from PlanetScale on using k8s on their managed service
From monolith to Lakebase to LTAP: rethinking the database from storage up | Databricks Blog
TL;DR - Overview from DBX on architecture for Lakebase
https://clickhouse.com/blog/walrus-postgres-backups-in-rust
TL;DR - New backup too for PostgreSQL from Clickhouse
Multi-block buffered reads in PostgreSQL 19 (IO combine & prefetch) - DEV Community
TL;DR - Write up on PostgreSQL 19 improvements
Community Docker Images: keeping the operator open without a vendor registry lock-in - Percona
TL;DR - Percona write up on changes to PGO docker images
Running pgvector in production on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL | AWS Database Blog
TL;DR - AWS post on best practices for using pg-vector in Aurora
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
September 20-23, 2026
Valencia, Spain
September 9-11, 2026
Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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
October 20–23, 2026 (PostgreSQL Europe)
Valencia, Spain
October 25–28, 2026
Las Vegas, NV
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America | LF Events
November 9-12
Salt Lake City, Utah
