MySQL is hard at work on version 7.0 of it’s widely used database software. This version of MySQL promises to have some security improvements (like most upgrades), but also a few special gifts from Google.
Google, over the years, has done quite a bit of work customizing MySQL to meet its special needs in terms of replication and monitoring tools. The new MySQL will incorporate a lot of those capabilities, and others, starting as soon as version 6.1 (due in early 2009), according to Vice President David Axmark.
What are some other goodies coming with version 7.0 (due out late 2009)? Robin Schumacher, the MySQL director of product managment says to look for role and group-based security and “transparent data encryption.”
Dialing things back a bit to something sooner than a few years from now, MySQL 5.1 is scheduled for “general availability Q1 2008. The one puzzling announcement, amid the batch of announcements by MySQL, is the company’s “wait and see” attitude it’s taking with native XML support. According to Axmark, “he’s still waiting for a clear signal about what customers want.”
[via Computerworld]
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