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The MySQL 8.0.12 Maintenance Release is Generally Available The MySQL Development team is very happy to announce that MySQL 8.0.12, the first 8.0 Maintenance Release, is now available for download at dev.mysql.com. In addition to bug fixes there are a few new features added in this release, most notably the InnoDB instant add column feature. … Source: The MySQL 8.0.12 Maintenance Release is Generally Available

MySQL Shell 8.0.12 – storing MySQL passwords securely MySQL Shell 8.0.12 introduces a new feature which allows users to store and automatically retrieve their MySQL account credentials. This enables them to seamlessly work with various servers without explicitly providing the password for each new connection and create secure unattended scripts which do not need to include plain text passwords.… Source: MySQL Shell 8.0.12 – storing MySQL passwords securely

MySQL Guide to Ports There could be from one to over ten ports used within your MySQL ecosystem.  It really depends on what you have enabled, which components you are using, how your applications connect, and other characteristics of your environment. From a security point, these ports need to be opened just wide enough to allow the various components  that should communicate to talk while blocking out anything else trying to hack its way in – the goal being to enforce the security principle of “least privilege”. … Source: MySQL Guide to Ports

MySQL 8.0: Support for BLOBs in TempTable engine In some cases, the server creates internal temporary tables while processing statements. These tables could be stored in memory or on disk – the first option is preferred but there exist some limitations. One of such restrictions was presence of TEXT or BLOB columns in the table; as in-memory storage engines (MEMORY and TempTable) did not supported these types server had to use the on-disk engine (InnoDB or MyISAM).… Source: MySQL 8.0: Support for BLOBs in TempTable engine

Audit Log’s JSON format logging Blood, sweat, tears and the JSON format logging is finally supported by the Audit Log plugin. This comes in pair with the feature that allows to read log events, which could be useful for rapid analysis of the audit log trail without the need of accessing the files directly.… Source: Audit Log’s JSON format logging