> > What do you think ? Should we move to 5.7 as a base with 2.0? Or should we > test both?
Move to 5.7 On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 2:55 PM Ash Berlin-Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm in favour of moving forward, possibly even to 8.0. But it seems that > Cloud SQL is tardy and haven't supported a new major version even though it > has been out for almost two years: > https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/db-versions > I think given Cloud SQL now defaults to 5.7 for MySQL that 5.7 making 5.6 > "unsupported" should be fine, Unsupported in the case of "we'll accept > patches to fix 5.6 behavoiur, but don't explicitly test it". > The other question is do we want to do anything about mariadb etc > versions? (I don't know how they map on to mysql versions, or if they even > do.) I'm def not in favour of increasing the number of build jobs we have! > But then I'm not a MySQL user, so happy to be ignored here. > -a > On Feb 24 2020, at 1:27 pm, Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
