The Path to MySQL Open Innovation

As MySQL celebrates its 30-year milestone, it faces a defining moment in its evolution. As we look toward the next era of MySQL, there are opportunities to increase community engagement, collaboration, contributions, and innovation velocity.

Oracle and the MySQL Community are embarking on a bold transformation—reimagining how one of the world’s most widely used open-source databases is built, governed, and evolved.

This session shares details on the next phase of that transformation following the MySQL 9.7 Community Edition release. Sparked by direct community feedback about the future of MySQL as an open ecosystem, this journey led to a multi-phase strategy to modernize MySQL’s development model.