The Next Chapter of MySQL: What’s new in Versions 9.7

MySQL 9.7 LTS marks a major milestone for MySQL Community Edition, delivering expanded capabilities across observability, high availability, application development, and query performance.

In this session, Scott Stroz, Developer Advocate on the MySQL team, explores the Community Edition features introduced in MySQL 9.7 LTS and what they mean for teams building and operating MySQL-backed systems. You will learn how new replication and Group Replication observability features provide better insight into lag, flow control, cluster health, and failover behavior; how OpenTelemetry support helps integrate MySQL into modern monitoring pipelines; how JSON Duality Views continue to evolve for application architectures; and how the Hypergraph Optimizer broadens access to advanced query planning in Community Edition.

This is not a product pitch. It is a practical look at what is now available in MySQL Community Edition, why these features matter, and how they can help teams build, scale, monitor, and optimize MySQL-backed applications with more confidence.