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Stories with reporting from Planet MySQL, ranked by what is gaining ground now. Each story links to the original articles.
A post examines thread pooling in Percona Server and MySQL, describing its arrival in Community MySQL Server releases 26.7.0 and 9.7.2. The thread pool plugin had previously been exclusive to MySQL Enterprise Edition, according to the post.
AWS says Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle will end support on March 31, 2027, and customers can continue using it until then. After that date, database instances, snapshots, and custom engine versions for the service will no longer be accessible.
Percona Server for MySQL 9.7.2-2 adds the DISTANCE() function for scoring vector similarity directly in SQL, with COSINE, EUCLIDEAN, MANHATTAN, and DOT metrics. The function supplies the scoring layer for vector comparisons, while ANN indexing such as HNSW or IVF is identified as a later milestone for fast large-scale search.
Oracle’s MySQL team introduces MySQL Workbench 26.7, the first release in a new generation of its MySQL administration and development GUI. It follows MySQL Workbench 8, whose C++ and platform architecture is described as old and end of life.
Vitess is hardening EmergencyReparentShard, its failover process for shards whose primary is dead or unreachable, in upcoming release v25. The changes are intended to make recovery safer, faster, and less brittle.
Percona (PS MySQL) Operator v1.2.0 adds cross-site replication based on Group Replication and InnoDB Cluster, enabling a disaster recovery cluster alongside an existing data-center cluster. The configuration forms a ClusterSet environment.
Percona Server for MySQL 8.4.11-11 includes patches aimed at improving performance and scalability. The update follows earlier performance changes in the 8.4 release series.
MyVector introduces Movie Finder, a demo that searches up to 1,035,695 TMDB movies by meaning using vector search inside MySQL. The setup uses MySQL 9.7 and runs without a separate vector database.
Percona explains how pt-online-schema-change can behave counterproductively when its chunk auto-resize optimization interacts with Galera flow control. The issue concerns online schema changes on large production tables, where adaptive chunk copying is intended to limit disruption.
VillageSQL examines early HNSW and custom-index support for vector search in MySQL. The piece notes that MySQL 9.x can store vectors but its community server lacks distance functions and vector indexes, while MySQL 8.4 lacks the vector features described.
Nutanix is named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure. Its platform brings together hybrid, edge, and AI capabilities.
MySQL 26.10.0 Early Access is available for developers and database teams to preview and evaluate. The release invites feedback as users test application stacks and upgrade plans.
Nutanix Database Service offers automated MySQL provisioning, instant cloning, recovery, and TDE key management. The service targets operational tasks involved in managing MySQL databases.
VillageSQL Server adds an extension that lets users run DuckDB queries from within MySQL and join the results with MySQL query results. The integration brings DuckDB’s columnar storage, vectorized execution, and embedded analytics engine to workflows involving formats such as Parquet.
MySQL discusses making several enterprise-tier features available in MySQL Community Edition and the motivation to keep the community release strong. Gopal Shankar describes evaluating whether a capability would help a meaningful part of the MySQL community build applications or operate systems.
An investigation examines how thousands of gcache.page.* files accumulated in a Percona XtraDB Cluster data directory and gradually consumed disk space. It looks into why GCache did not appear to clean up the files as expected.
A Percona engineer builds DBCanvas, an AI-assisted database lab, to avoid repeatedly assembling test environments for feature experiments, debugging, and customer issue reproduction. The recurring setup includes DNS, TLS, Docker networking, database topologies, users, and test data.
A verification demonstrates VECTOR capabilities in MySQL 8.4 using VillageSQL’s 0.0.7 development branch and the vsql-vector plugin. It recreates a Percona Live presentation and shows an example using SVECTOR(1024) embedded data.
Using ALGORITHM=INSTANT in MySQL can lead to ERROR 1731, “Non matching attribute INSTANT COLUMN(s),” when running EXCHANGE PARTITION. The technical account provides reasoning and fixtures for reproducing the issue.
MySQL Workbench 26.7 introduces an updated technology base and an architecture built on the MySQL Shell foundation. The post highlights several features to try in the release rather than revisiting the architecture overview.