--- title: MySQL Development as it Happens – Innovating Together description: Oracle's MySQL team outlines the current state of community-driven MySQL development following the first MySQL Contributor Summit. Two Early Access releases... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/mysql-development-as-it-happens-innovating-together-u9sqnskua twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: MySQL Development as it Happens – Innovating Together | daily.dev og:description: Oracle's MySQL team outlines the current state of community-driven MySQL development following the first MySQL Contributor Summit. Two Early Access releases... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/mysql-development-as-it-happens-innovating-together-u9sqnskua og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/u9sqNSkUA.png og:image:alt: MySQL Development as it Happens – Innovating Together og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # MySQL Development as it Happens – Innovating Together **[Planet MySQL](https://daily.dev/sources/planet-mysql)** · 17 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Oracle's MySQL team outlines the current state of community-driven MySQL development following the first MySQL Contributor Summit. Two Early Access releases (9.7.0 and 26.7.0) are available, with a monthly code drop cadence planned. A community roadmap on GitHub tracks four work streams: AI & Cloud (native vector indexes with HNSW/ScaNN support, and an official MCP Server for MySQL), Performance & Observability (RETURNING clause for DELETE/UPDATE, InnoDB-based binary log, Hypergraph optimizer improvements), Developer & DBA Experience (MySQL Workbench updates, native BOOL/ARRAY/UUID types, system-versioned tables), and Extensibility & Tooling (expanding the MySQL Component Framework to support User Defined Types, with DuckDB and TidesDB proposed as new storage engines). The first community patch—a composite primary key chunking performance fix from Percona—is already merged into 26.7. Contributor Summits are held quarterly, with the next one August 5–6. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is the RETURNING clause in MySQL and how does it improve performance? The RETURNING clause is a proposed extension to MySQL's DELETE and UPDATE statements that lets you select and retrieve column values within the same DML command, eliminating a separate SELECT round-trip. This is expected to deliver significant HammerDB benchmark improvements—potentially 2x to 4x—because a single statement replaces what previously required multiple round-trips to the database. _Developers optimizing MySQL write-heavy workloads track proposals like this on daily.dev before they land in a release._ ### What vector index algorithms is MySQL planning to support natively? MySQL's roadmap targets native, built-in vector index support as a first-class SQL citizen, covering at minimum HNSW (Hierarchical Navigable Small World) and ScaNN (Scalable Nearest Neighbor, developed at Google). The design phase is ongoing, and supporting multiple index types simultaneously is increasingly likely. A plugin-based alternative called MyVector, using the MySQL Component Framework, also exists as a reference implementation. _Engineers evaluating vector database options alongside MySQL can follow the design discussion as it evolves on daily.dev._ ### What new storage engines are being proposed for MySQL? Two storage engines have been added to the MySQL community roadmap: DuckDB, proposed by Alibaba, targeting analytics and OLAP workloads, and TidesDB, an LSM-based engine suited for write-optimized MVCC OLTP workloads. Both are scheduled to present at an upcoming MySQL Contributor Summit. _Database architects weighing MySQL's analytical capabilities against dedicated OLAP engines can follow these proposals on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Summary of MySQL Public Discussion \#5: The Contributor Experience](https://daily.dev/posts/summary-of-mysql-public-discussion-5-the-contributor-experience-pdtotgfjc) · Planet MySQL · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Join MySQL Public Discussion \#6 and the November Contributor Summit](https://daily.dev/posts/join-mysql-public-discussion-6-and-the-november-contributor-summit-iqnffgj1j) · Planet MySQL · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [MySQL 9.7: First Major LTS Since 8.4 Brings Enterprise Features to Community Edition](https://daily.dev/posts/mysql-9-7-first-major-lts-since-8-4-brings-enterprise-features-to-community-edition-vepy2dpjo) · InfoQ · 67 upvotes · 3 comments - [Devs assessing options for MySQL's future beyond Oracle](https://daily.dev/posts/devs-assessing-options-for-mysql-s-future-beyond-oracle-l2bepol0a) · The Register · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [MySQL 26.7 and the Power of Community Contribution](https://daily.dev/posts/mysql-26-7-and-the-power-of-community-contribution-mucgnxb0n) · Planet MySQL · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#mysql](https://daily.dev/tags/mysql), [#vector-search](https://daily.dev/tags/vector-search) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/mysql-development-as-it-happens-innovating-together-u9sqnskua) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"MySQL Development as it Happens – Innovating Together","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/mysql-development-as-it-happens-innovating-together-u9sqnskua","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/mysql-development-as-it-happens-innovating-together-u9sqnskua"},"datePublished":"2026-08-06T23:24:49.487Z","dateModified":"2026-08-06T23:25:26.576Z","description":"Oracle's MySQL team outlines the current state of community-driven MySQL development following the first MySQL Contributor Summit. 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