Releases

Here is a list of major releases of MySQL so far:

• Version 5.0 GA was released on 19th October, 2005
• Version 5.1 GA was released on 14th November, 2008
• Version 5.5 GA was released on 3rd December, 2010
• Version 5.6 GA was released on 5th February, 2013
• Version 5.7 GA was released on 21st October, 2015

Now it's time for the major version release--MySQL 8--which was announced on 12th September, 2016 and is still in the development milestone mode. Let's see what's new in this latest release.