
Last week (09/12/2016) was announced the new MySQL 8.0.0 DMR (Development Milestone Release) It is now available for download at dev.mysql.com I downloaded and installed it Following are my first impression on some new features First of all, when you remember the size of earlier versions, it is more & more gluttonous, see below mysql-5.0.96-linux-x86_64-glibc23.tar.gz 121.2M mysql-5.1.72-linux-x86_64-glibc23.tar.gz 127.8M mysql-5.5.52-linux2.6-x86_64.tar.gz 177.2M mysql-5.6.33-linux-glibc2.5-x86_64.tar.gz 299.7M mysql-5.7.15-linux-glibc2.5-x86_64.tar.gz 611.8M mysql-8.0.0-dmr-linux-glibc2.12-x86_64.tar.gz is around 1Gb and uncompressed 3.6Gb (Oups…) At…