MySQL 5.7.x Released

[rcorbin]

Just noticed tonight that I looks like the final release of MySQL 5.7 its out.

https://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressrelease/mysql-5-7-ga-101915.html

Will be interesting to test it as it is supposed to be much faster than 5.6. Anyone did any testing with it yet ? Might have to try it out on a test JSS server.

[cwaldrip]

First thing I noticed when I installed it in my test environment the other day (10.11 box) was that it generates a random root password now. You can still change that to nothing, but it's an extra step in your deployment.

To change the password to blank you can log into MySQL as root with the random password and use this...

SET PASSWORD = PASSWORD('');

If you want to customize the password to something else change the info between the tick marks in the parentheses.