Regardless of how popular a specific software appliance is, particular versions of it are inevitably phased out over time, paving the way for new ones. MySQL, the DB-Engines DBMS of the Year in 2025, is perfect proof of this.
MySQL 8.0 was officially released on April 19, 2018, and now its official End-Of-Life (EOL) is set for April 2026, 8 years later. Oracle will stop providing security patches, bug fixes and general support for the RDBMS after this date. But what if you want to continue using it – and should you? Let’s find out.
What does ‘end-of-life’ for MySQL