I would be a +1 on this suggestion, but maybe on a branch to be integrated after the upcoming release so that it can get a full cycle of testing before it’s released. What do others think?
Best Regards, Myrle On Wed 17. Jan 2018 at 15:48 Steve Conrad <[email protected]> wrote: > To the Mifos and Fineract dev communities - > > My name is Steve Conrad, and I have recently begun volunteering with the > Mifos/Fineract community and really appreciate the great work that you all > are doing. > > I wanted to propose a new project to migrate the Fineract platform to MySQL > 5.7. There are several features in MySQL 5.7 that would benefit the project > - performance, embedded JSON objects in the schema, multithreaded > replication, among others. > > When I installed Fineract locally, I used MySQL 5.7. I had to change a few > of the database migration scripts. I have obviously not gone through all of > the use cases, but so far am running with no issues. > > Does anyone know of any reasons why we could not move to MySQL 5.7? > Obviously there would be a large testing task, but it may be a worthwhile > investment to keep the Fineract platform current. > > Thanks, > Steve >
