MySQL Shell 8.0.17 – What’s New?

MySQL Shell 8.0.17 – What’s New?

The MySQL Development team is proud to announce a new version of the MySQL Shell in which the following new features can be highlighted:

• MySQL Shell Plugins
• Parallel table import
• In InnoDB Cluster:
  • Automatic instance provisioning through cloning
  • Automatic server version compatibility handling
  • Simplification of internal recovery accounts

The following enhancements were also introduced:

• On the X DevAPI area:
  • Support for array indexes in collections
  • Support for overlaps operator in expressions
• Uniform SQL execution API in classic and X protocol
• Support for connection attributes
• New utility functions:
  • shell.unparseUri(…)
  • shell.dumpRows(…)
• Support for –verbose output
• Upgrade Checker: Addition of checks for variables on the configuration files

MySQL Shell Plugins

The MySQL Shell now supports user extensions through MySQL Shell Plugins, which includes User Defined Reports (Introduced in 8.0.16) as well as the new Extension Objects introduced in 8.0.17.…

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