MySQL 8.0 Reference Manual
MySQL 8.0 Release Notes
MySQL supports replication from one release series to the next higher release series. For example, you can replicate from a source running MySQL 5.6 to a replica running MySQL 5.7, from a source running MySQL 5.7 to a replica running MySQL 8.0, and so on. However, you might encounter difficulties when replicating from an older source to a newer replica if the source uses statements or relies on behavior no longer supported in the version of MySQL used on the replica. For example, foreign key names longer than 64 characters are no longer supported from MySQL 8.0.
The use of more than two MySQL Server versions is not supported in replication setups involving multiple sources, regardless of the number of source or replica MySQL servers. This restriction applies not only to release series, but to version numbers within the same release series as well. For example, if you are using a chained or circular replication setup, you cannot use MySQL 8.0.22, MySQL 8.0.24, and MySQL 8.0.28 concurrently, although you could use any two of these releases together.
Important
It is strongly recommended to use the most recent release available within a given MySQL release series because replication (and other) capabilities are continually being improved. It is also recommended to upgrade sources and replicas that use early releases of a release series of MySQL to GA (production) releases when the latter become available for that release series.
From MySQL 8.0.14, the server version is recorded in the binary
log for each transaction for the server that originally committed
the transaction
(original_server_version), and
for the server that is the immediate source of the current server
in the replication topology
(immediate_server_version).
Replication from newer sources to older replicas might be possible, but is generally not supported. This is due to a number of factors:
Binary log format changes. The binary log format can change between major releases. While we attempt to maintain backward compatibility, this is not always possible. A source might also have optional features enabled that are not understood by older replicas, such as binary log transaction compression, where the resulting compressed transaction payloads cannot be read by a replica at a release before MySQL 8.0.20.
This also has significant implications for upgrading replication servers; see Section 4.3, “Upgrading a Replication Topology”, for more information.
For more information about row-based replication, see Section 5.1, “Replication Formats”.
SQL incompatibilities. You cannot replicate from a newer source to an older replica using statement-based replication if the statements to be replicated use SQL features available on the source but not on the replica.
However, if both the source and the replica support row-based replication, and there are no data definition statements to be replicated that depend on SQL features found on the source but not on the replica, you can use row-based replication to replicate the effects of data modification statements even if the DDL run on the source is not supported on the replica.
In MySQL 8.0.26, incompatible changes were made to replication
instrumentation names, including the names of thread stages,
containing the terms “master”, which is changed to
“source”, “slave”, which is changed to
“replica”, and “mts” (for
“multithreaded slave”), which is changed to
“mta” (for “multithreaded applier”).
Monitoring tools that work with these instrumentation names might
be impacted. If the incompatible changes have an impact for you,
set the terminology_use_previous
system variable to BEFORE_8_0_26 to make MySQL
Server use the old versions of the names for the objects specified
in the previous list. This enables monitoring tools that rely on
the old names to continue working until they can be updated to use
the new names.
For more information on potential replication issues, see Section 4.1, “Replication Features and Issues”.