svn commit: r50170 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Sun Apr 16 02:20:48 UTC 2017

Author: bjk
Date: Sun Apr 16 02:20:46 2017
New Revision: 50170
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50170

Log:
  Add 2017Q1 MySQL entry from mmokhi

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml	Sun Apr 16 00:52:01 2017	(r50169)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml	Sun Apr 16 02:20:46 2017	(r50170)
@@ -413,4 +413,55 @@
 	the SEBSD repository have been moved.</p>
     </body>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='ports'>
+    <title>MySQL</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Mahdi</given>
+	  <common>Mokhtari</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>mmokhi at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Mark</given>
+	  <common>Felder</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>feld at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/presentations/mysql-80-overview/">MySQL80 Overview</url>
+      <url href="https://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/presentations/innodb-whats-new-mysql-80/">MySQL80 InnoDB New Features</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>This quarter a new <tt>-dev</tt> version of MySQL landed in
+	the port tree, MySQL 8.0.  It introduces many new features,
+	though we had to (re)-patch parts of it which were merged by
+	MySQL from MySQL5.7.</p>
+
+      <p>We also updated MySQL 5.6 to latest version and closed bunch
+	of PRs related to it, mostly about using &os;-provided ports
+	for librariess instead of the bundled copies.  And of course
+	there were plenty of security updates.</p>
+
+      <p>We can also report that the problem of having to specify
+      <tt>${mysql_optfile}</tt>, which some people encountered while
+      using MySQL, is now considered to be solved in all MySQL
+      versions: 5.6, 5.7, and 8.0.  Now the init script will search
+      all default locations, for backwards compatibility with the
+      variety of locations used for configuration files before it
+      gives up and reports an error.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Test the new version and report problems.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
