Currently we are running our tests for MySQL using both client and server of mysql in 5.6 version and I wonder how we should proceed with it?.
Is there any reason why we would stick to 5.6 and not use 5.7 (or maybe we should do both)? While 5.6 is still "alive", it's been released 7 years ago and it's end of support is February 2021 Here is some information about the released (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL) Release General availability Latest minor version Latest release End of sup. 5.1 - November 14, 2008; 11 years ago 5.1.73 2013-12-03 December 2013 5.5 - December 3, 2010; 9 years ago 5.5.62 2018-10-22 December 2018 5.6 - February 5, 2013; 7 years ago 5.6.47 2020-01-13 February 2021 5.7 - October 21, 2015; 4 years ago 5.7.29 2020-01-13 October 2023 8.0 - April 19, 2018; 22 months ago 8.0.19 2020-01-13 April 2026 What do you think ? Should we move to 5.7 as a base with 2.0? Or should we test both? J. -- Jarek Potiuk Polidea | Principal Software Engineer M: +48 660 796 129
