Oracle formed the new division of the DBMS MySQL 9.4.0. Assembly Mysql Community 9.4.0 prepared for all main distributions of Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS and Windows. In accordance with the release model introduced in 2023, MySQL 9.4 is assigned to the “Innovation” branches. Innovation-vehicles are recommended for those who want to access new functionality earlier, are published every 3 months and are maintained only until the following significant release is published (for example, after the appearance of the branch 9.4, support for branch 9.3 was discontinued). In the fall, they plan to form LTS release 9.5, recommended for implementations that need predictability and long-term preservation of constant behavior. Following the LTS vending will be formed a new Innovation-View-MySQL 10.0.
The main changes in MySQL 9.4:
- In the stored procedures written in JavaScript, support is implemented like bit. The values of the BIT type are smaller or equal to JavaScript.max_safe_integer are converted to the Number JavaScript type, and large ones are converted to the Bigint JavaScript.
- In the command line utility MySQL Added option “-commander“, which allows to enable support for the execution of local commands (by default The commands are disabled):
- charset
- Clear
- Connect
- edit