19th April 2018 - Link Blog
What’s New in MySQL 8.0. MySQL 8 has lots of exciting improvements: Window functions, SRS aware spatial types for GIS, utf8mb4 by default, a ton of JSON improvements and atomic DDL. I no longer feel at a significant disadvantage when I have to use MySQL in place of PostgreSQL.
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