MySQL Server 8.1.0, 8.0.34 and 5.7.43, new versions of the popular Open
Source Database Management System, have been released in conjunction
with the MySQL Shell, MySQL Router and MySQL 8.1.0 Connectors.
We are also pleased to announce the release of MySQL Cluster 8.1.0, the
latest GA, along with 8.0.34, 7.6.27, 7.5.31. MySQL Cluster is the
distributed, shared-nothing variant of MySQL.
MySQL Server 8.1.0 and MySQL Cluster 8.1.0 are Innovation releases,
which means they will have new features in addition to bug fixes. They
are supported until the next Innovation release comes out. With this new
Innovation series, the existing 8.0 series will focus on security and
bug fixes only.
Please refer to the below MySQL Innovation and Long Term support (LTS)
blog for more information:
https://blogs.oracle.com/mysql/post/introducing-mysql-innovation-and-longterm-support-lts-versions
These releases are recommended for use on production systems and are
available in source and binary form for a number of platforms from our
MySQL Community download pages at:
https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/
Windows packages are available via the Installer for Windows or .ZIP
(no-install) packages for more advanced needs. The point and click
configuration wizards and MySQL products are available in the unified
Installer for Windows:
https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/installer/
Enterprise binaries for these new releases are available on My Oracle
Support:
https://support.oracle.com
Choose the “Patches & Updates” tab, and then choose the “Product or
Family (Advanced Search)” side tab in the “Patch Search” portlet.
MySQL Enterprise binaries are also available on the Oracle Software
Delivery Cloud:
https://edelivery.oracle.com/
Changes in the release since the previous one can be viewed online as
shown below.
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/#current-release-notes
