Release notes

Use these release notes to learn about the latest updates to IBM Cloud® Databases for MySQL that are grouped by date or build number.

1 May 2024

New hosting models: You can choose between two hosting models: Isolated Compute and Shared Compute. Isolated Compute is a secure single-tenant offering for complex, highly performant enterprise workloads. Shared Compute is a flexible multi-tenant offering for dynamic, fine-tuned, and decoupled capacity selections. For more information, see Hosting models.

max_prepared_stmt_count added to documentation: max_prepared_stmt_count specifies the total number of prepared statements on the server. For more information, see Changing your Configuration.

Monitoring Integration documentation updated: Monitoring Integration documentation now lists metrics for all Cloud Databases services. For more information, see Monitoring Integration.

Databases for MySQL end of life dates: End of life announcement: Version 5.7 reaches end of life 26 April 2024. We recommend that you upgrade following our backup and restore process before the EOL date of your version.

Upgrading to a new Major Version: Once a major version of a database is at its End Of Life (EOL), upgrade to a current major version. For more information, see Upgrading to a new Major Version.

Setting up disk alerts for disk utilization tutorial: In this tutorial, you use the IBM Cloud API and the IBM Cloud CLI to set up an alert that emails you whenever the disk utilization of your database exceeds 90%. This specific example creates an alert on a Databases for Elasticsearch deployment, but it is applicable to all the databases in the IBM Cloud Databases catalog. For more information, see Setting up disk alerts for disk utilization.

Configuring Your IBM Cloud® Databases for MySQL time zone settings: At provisioning, a Cloud Databases deployment is configured to Coordinated Universal Time. Reconfiguring your time zone is a persistent change, which must be undertaken for each of your Cloud Databases deployments. Configure your time zone with the Cloud Databases API or the CLI. For more information, see IBM Cloud® Databases for MySQL time zone settings.

Deploying and Connecting a Cloud Databases Instance Tutorial: This tutorial guides you through the process of deploying a Cloud Databases instance and connecting it to a web front end by creating a webpage that allows visitors to input a word and its definition. These values are then stored in a database running on Cloud Databases. You install the database infrastructure by using Terraform and your web application uses the popular Express framework. The application can then be run locally, or by using Docker. For more information, see Deploying and Connecting a Cloud Databases Instance.

Protecting IBM Cloud® Databases for MySQL resources with context-based restrictions: Context-based restrictions (CBR) give account owners and administrators the ability to define and enforce access restrictions for IBM Cloud® resources based on the context of access requests. Access to Cloud Databases resources can be controlled with CBR and identity and access management (IAM) policies. For more information, see Protecting Cloud Databases resources with context-based restrictions.

IBM Cloud® Databases for MySQL version 8 is now available on Cloud Databases: MySQL 8.0 is the latest version of the world's most popular open-source database. This release features improvements across the board, offering enhancements for better performance, reliability, security, and manageability, with significant improvements to the data dictionary. For information on upgrading your current IBM Cloud® Databases for MySQL deployment, or deploying a new instance, see MySQL 8 GA. See blog post announcement here.

General Availability of IBM Cloud® Databases for MySQL: IBM Cloud® Databases for MySQL added to the IBM Cloud Databases family. See blog post announcement here.