Re: Heads-up: MySQL default Version will switch to 8.0

From: Jochen Neumeister <joneum_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2023 15:52:41 UTC
Am 28.01.23 um 15:56 schrieb Moin Rahman:
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>> On 28 Jan 2023, at 13:30, Jochen Neumeister <joneum@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
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>> Moin moin
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>> MySQL 5.7 is already for some time EOL. For this reason MySQL 5.6 
>> will be deleted from the ports on 6/30/2023 and MySQL 5.7 on 12/31/2023.
>> I have requested an exp-run today to change the default version to 
>> 8.0 as exp-run [1].
>> It would be good to make sure when updating the ports that used MySQL 
>> that they are also compatible with MySQL 8.0.
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>> Cheers
>> Jochen
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>> [1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=268586
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> Once you have the result of exp-run if you can mark the broken ports 
> DEPRECATED and set the EXPIRATION_DATE that would be great. I have 
> already marked all the ports that depends on 5.6 as DEPRECATED and set 
> to EXPIRE on 2023-06-30.
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I have an exp-run running on my server right now. So far it looks good. 
You have already marked some ports: 
https://joneumbox.org/build.html?mastername=131amd64-ports&build=2023-01-28_13h05m03s

Oracle will release MySQL 8.1 in Q1 2023 with some luck.

Cheers
Jochen