Hi, Am 22.01.2018 um 13:42 schrieb Lars Tangvald: > Hi, > > First off, thanks for handling the 5.5.59 update for Wheezy. I had the > security announcement date mixed up so picked it up too late, sorry. > > MySQL 5.5 is expected to be EOL in December (it was first released > December 15, 2010, and we have 8 year security support), while Jessie > LTS is until April 2020 > How are such cases handled? Will the source package be removed, or is it > possible to have it upgraded to a more recent version?
These are both possible options but given the significance of MySQL we would rather prefer to upgrade to a supported release provided this is viable for Jessie. > If an upgrade is possible, while we did a successful transition in > Ubuntu from 5.5 to 5.7, there were significant changes from 5.6 to 5.7, > requiring small changes to a lot of third-party packages as well as to > the default server behavior, so 5.6 (which is supported until 2021) > would be a better option. I also think it makes sense to take a smaller step and upgrade from 5.5 to 5.6. Are there any known issues with 5.6 or can you share any information about expected regressions with reverse-dependencies? Regards, Markus
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