As the community looks ahead to new LTS releases of both MySQL and MariaDB over the next couple months, the timeline for Skeema v2 has finally taken shape. In this post, we’ll reveal the preliminary schedule, and also cover some important changes to EOL database support, download URLs, and more.
Skeema v1.13 has been released! This new version provides significant performance improvements, and adds support for recent database server versions such as MariaDB 11.8 LTS. It also includes important deprecation logging to help you prepare for upcoming changes in Skeema v2.
Throughout Skeema’s nine-year development history, we’ve avoided backwards-incompatible changes in our periodic v1.x feature releases. However, the time has finally come to iron out some old wrinkles in a v2 release. We’re avoiding any overly-drastic breaking changes, but there may be a few minor adjustments which affect your configuration.
New versions of the Go programming language are released every six months, and occasionally these releases tighten and modernize the standard library’s defaults for encryption behavior. Although these new defaults improve security, they can be problematic when connecting to older server software, such as MySQL 5.7, which is no longer being updated.
Skeema uses a declarative design for schema management, representing the desired state of database objects as a collection of CREATE statements. This model works extremely well for DDL, but it doesn’t directly capture imperative changes, such as row data migrations. In this post, we’ll cover the underlying concepts and show a few approaches for managing imperative changes when using Skeema.
Skeema v1.12 is now available! Our newest release adds support for the latest MySQL and MariaDB LTS version series, managing scheduled events in the Premium CLI, and automatic detection of index renaming in diffs.
MySQL’s latest long-term support (LTS) version series, MySQL 8.4, had its first release in April 2024. In this post, we’ll review a few unexpected developments in this version.
MySQL 5.7 reached its end-of-life in October 2023, and managed database products such as Amazon RDS are starting to transition to expensive “extended support” pricing for 5.7 users. Before you jump on a last-minute MySQL 8 upgrade, it is essential to understand the major functional differences between these database versions. In this post, we’ll provide a deep-dive on the upgrade implications for schema management and DDL operations.
Stored procedures are a powerful database feature. However, they’re also somewhat controversial, in part due to operational challenges with their development workflow and lifecycle. In this post, we’ll review Git version control and deployment concepts for stored procedures, along with practical solutions when using Skeema.
Skeema v1.11 has been released! This new version includes spatial index support, safe trigger DDL operations with table locking, new options to ignore some types of table differences, and additional safety guardrails.
