The first question people are likely to ask: If the most recent version of MySQL was a 5.x release, why’s this one 8.0? For one, version 6.0 was canned as part of the transition to “more frequent and timely releases of the MySQL Server.” Version 7 was reserved for the clustering version of MySQL. That leaves 8.x as the next major version number for the common use-case version of MySQL.
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人们可能会问的第一个问题是:如果MySQL的最新版本是5.x release,为什么是8.0呢?首先,6.0版本被作为过渡到“更频繁和及时的MySQL服务器版本”的一部分。版本7是为MySQL的集群版本保留的。这使得8.x作为MySQL常用用例版本的下一个主要版本号。