Aurora MySQL database engine updates 2020-11-12 (version 2.08.3) (Deprecated) (original) (raw)

Version: 2.08.3

Aurora MySQL 2.08.3 is generally available. Aurora MySQL 2.x versions are compatible with MySQL 5.7 and Aurora MySQL 1.x versions are compatible with MySQL 5.6.

Currently supported Aurora MySQL releases are 1.19.5, 1.19.6, 1.22.*, 1.23.*, 2.04.*, 2.07.*, 2.08.*, 2.09.*, 2.10.*, 3.01.* and 3.02.*.

You can upgrade existing Aurora MySQL 2.* database clusters directly to Aurora MySQL 2.08.3. You can upgrade an existing Aurora MySQL 1.* cluster directly to 2.07.3 or higher and then directly upgrade to 2.08.3.

To create a cluster with an older version of Aurora MySQL, specify the engine version through the AWS Management Console, the AWS CLI, or the RDS API.

If you have any questions or concerns, AWS Support is available on the community forums and throughAWS Support. For more information, see Maintaining an Amazon Aurora DB cluster in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.

Improvements

Security fixes:

Fixes and other enhancements to fine-tune handling in a managed environment. Additional CVE fixes below:

Incompatible changes:

This version introduces a permission change that affects the behavior of the mysqldump command. Users must have the PROCESS privilege to access the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.FILES table. To run the mysqldump command without any changes, grant the PROCESS privilege to the database user that the mysqldump command connects to. You can also run the mysqldump command with the--no-tablespaces option. With that option, the mysqldump output doesn't include anyCREATE LOGFILE GROUP or CREATE TABLESPACE statements. In that case, the mysqldump command doesn't access the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.FILES table, and you don't need to grant the PROCESS permission.

Integration of MySQL community edition bug fixes

Comparison with Aurora MySQL version 1

The following Amazon Aurora MySQL features are supported in Aurora MySQL Version 1 (compatible with MySQL 5.6), but these features are currently not supported in Aurora MySQL Version 2 (compatible with MySQL 5.7).

MySQL 5.7 compatibility

This Aurora MySQL version is wire-compatible with MySQL 5.7 and includes features such as JSON support, spatial indexes, and generated columns. Aurora MySQL uses a native implementation of spatial indexing using z-order curves to deliver >20x better write performance and >10x better read performance than MySQL 5.7 for spatial datasets.

This Aurora MySQL version does not currently support the following MySQL 5.7 features: