We are pleased to announce the release of MySQL Cluster 8.0.21, the latest GA, along with 7.6.15, 7.5.19, 7.4.29, and 7.3.30. MySQL Cluster is the distributed, shared-nothing variant of MySQL. This storage engine provides:

• In-Memory storage – Real-time performance (with optional checkpointing to disk)
• Transparent Auto-Sharding – Read & write scalability
• Active-Active/Multi-Master geographic replication
• 99.999% High Availability with no single point of failure and on-line maintenance
• NoSQL and SQL APIs (including C++, Java, http, Memcached and JavaScript/Node.js)

These releases are recommended for use on production systems.

For an overview of what’s new, please see

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-cluster-what-is-new.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-cluster-what-is-new-7-6.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-cluster-what-is-new-7-5.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-cluster.html (7.4, 7.3)

For information on installing the release on new servers, please see the MySQL Cluster installation documentation at

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-cluster-installation.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-cluster-installation.html (7.6, 7.5) https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-cluster-installation.html (7.4, 7.3)

These cluster releases are available in source and binary form for a number of platforms from our download pages at

https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/

MySQL Cluster 7.5 – 8.0 is also available from our repository for Linux platforms, go here for details:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/

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 Cluster 8.0.21 will also soon be available on the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud:

http://edelivery.oracle.com/

We welcome and appreciate your feedback, bug reports, bug fixes, patches, etc.:

http://bugs.mysql.com/report.php

The following sections list the changes in the release since the previous one. They may also be viewed online at

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql-cluster/8.0/en/news-8-0-21.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql-cluster/7.6/en/news-7-6-15.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql-cluster/7.5/en/news-7-5-19.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql-cluster/7.4/en/news-7-4-29.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql-cluster/7.3/en/news-7-3-30.html

Enjoy!