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Oracle Announces MySQL 8.0 Release Candidate
MySQL 8.0 Release Candidate includes numerous enhancements making MySQL better for modern applications. The theme of this release is “making MySQL better for modern apps”:
- A modern application is mobile first. Mobile-first is not just a theme applied to an existing app, it is about using context about the user (such as their location) and reducing the clicks required for a transaction.
- Unicode (or more specifically UTF-8 encoding) has become universal even in English speaking markets. To support modern applications, it is important to have first-class support for UTF-8 out of the box.
- Modern applications are developed with a premium on time-to-market. You want to be able to respond fast to the directions the market takes you. It is important to have flexibility, and a large part of this story is schemaless JSON support.