The Extensibility Tax: Decisions, Principles, and Lessons from a Year of Teaching MySQL New Tricks (Steve Schirripa) - Carnegie Mellon Database Group What does it take to add custom data types and indexes to... Read More +

Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Steve Schirripa (MSE'00) will present how @villagesql.bsky.social is injecting new life into MySQL via extensions. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs...

So excited to speak to @db.cs.cmu.edu today!

Percona Live 2026 Bay Area | Mountain View, California – May 27–29 Percona Live 2026 in Mountain View brings together global experts in MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Valkey, and cloud-native data technologies for three days of practical, open-source database i...

We are a partnering with @percona.bsky.social to be a Platinum Sponsor for #PerconaLive so get 25% off on us!

We look forward to seeing you at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA on May 27-29.

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Village News: MySQL/Database News (8 April 2026) MySQL news: 8.0 EOL options, ProxySQL updates, Azure Fabric Mirroring, and Anthropic AI security alerts. Plus, 2026 database event schedules.

This week's installment of the Village News - a curated overview of #MySQL and database news that you might have missed over the last period.

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Enjoy!

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MySQL 8.0 Is Reaching End of Life. Here Are Your Options. MySQL 8.0 reaches end of life (EOL) in April 2026. Oracle will stop issuing security patches, bug fixes, and official support on that date. Most production workloads likely already have a plan in plac...

Do you have a plan for #MySQL 8.0 EOL this month?

We put together a guide for folks that are trying to make decisions about what to do for their MySQL workloads. We hope it's helpful to layout all the options.

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Village News: MySQL/Database News - 17 March 2026 As part of building the MySQL Community, we are going to publish a curated overview of MySQL and database news that you might have missed over the last period. If you want to get these updates, just ...

Village News is the weekly round-up of #MySQL and #Database news from the last week.

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Check out @villagesql.bsky.social, the newest #MySQL fork: villagesql.com

It's an #OpenSource venture backed by $35M from Google Ventures among others. It's a drop-in replacement for MySQL with an extension architecture. See their native UUID extension with efficient 16-byte storage as an example.

Introducing VillageSQL: A New Path for MySQL in the Agentic AI Era MySQL is the world's most popular open-source database by many measures but a persistent innovation gap has emerged. This gap causes developers to select other databases over MySQL for new application...

VillageSQL = MySQL + Extensions 🚀 🎉

We’re launching a drop-in replacement for MySQL with extensions built for the Agentic AI era.

Try the initial release: villagesql.com/blog/introdu...

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