MySQL Product Support EOL Announcements

Support EOL for Low Usage Platforms

Per the MySQL Support Lifecycle policy regarding ending support for OS versions that have little usage pattern, we plan to discontinue building MySQL binaries (Community, Enterprise, and Commercial) for the following platforms.

As of February 1, 2010, these platforms will no longer be supported for MySQL versions 5.0 and higher.

• Mac OS X for PowerPC
  Due to low demand and fading vendor support. Note: Apple has dropped support for PowerPC in Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Dropping PowerPC also falls in line with many other vendors such as Adobe. MySQL will focus on added support for latest Mac OS X releases
• Linux Generic RPM for PowerPC
  Due to very low demand this general Linux distribution has been dropped.
• Linux Generic RPM built with icc (Intel compiler) for Itanium
  Due to low demand and technical issues the general Linux RPM distribution created with the icc Intel compiler has been dropped.
  Note: The gcc build for Itanium is recommended as the preferred alternative.
• Generic Linux Build for S/390
  Due to low demand.

Our platform support continues to evolve and we recently added following platforms to our officially supported list.

• New - Windows 7, x86 and x86_64
• New - Mac OS X 10.6, x86 and x86_64
• New - HP-UX 11.31, Itanium build
• New - SLES 11, x86 and x64

Old releases for the EOLed platforms listed above remain available for download from the MySQL Customer Support Center and we will continue to provide source code and limited support for customers who wish to build MySQL 5.0 and higher on these platforms. Please see the MySQL Support Policies for more information.

As always, thanks for your continued support of MySQL!

December 31, 2009

MySQL 4.1 Extended Support ended on December 31, 2009

Per the MySQL Support Lifecycle policy, extended support for MySQL 4.1 ended on December 31, 2009. MySQL Enterprise subscribers can continue to download 4.1 server binaries and source code from the Enterprise Customer Center at https://enterprise.mysql.com/.

December 31, 2009

MySQL 5.0 Active Support ended on December 31, 2009 - Now in Extended Support Phase

Per the MySQL Support Lifecycle policy, active support for MySQL 5.0 ended on December 31, 2009. MySQL 5.0 is now in the Extended support phase.

December 18, 2009

EOL of MySQL Query Browser, MySQL Administrator, MySQL Migration Toolkit

With the beta releases of MySQL Workbench 5.2 well under way, we are announcing the EOL of the MySQL GUI Tools Bundle.

The MySQL Tools team has been working on MySQL Workbench 5.2 to give DBAs and developers an integrated tools environment for:

• Database Design & Modeling
• SQL Development (replacing MySQL Query Browser)
• Database Administration (replacing MySQL Administrator)

MySQL Workbench 5.2 also provides:

• Remote Administration (using SSH-Tunneling)
• Python scripting and plugins
• Native GUI for Windows, Mac, Linux

A future release of MySQL Workbench (post 5.2) will add a migration plugin, providing features comparable to the MySQL Migration Toolkit component of the MySQL GUI Tools Bundle. The MySQL Support team will continue to provide technical assistance for MySQL Migration Toolkit until such migration support functionality is released in MySQL Workbench, but no new development or bug fixes will be provided against the existing MySQL Migration Toolkit product.

MySQL Support will continue to answer questions and provide assistance related to MySQL GUI Tools Bundle, as well as assist our customers in upgrading from those tools to MySQL Workbench 5.2 until June 30, 2010.

Starting Dec 18, 2009, MySQL will no longer accept bug reports submitted against the MySQL GUI Tools Bundle, and existing bug reports against these tools will no longer be worked on. Users should instead download, use, and submit bug reports (where necessary) against MySQL Workbench. Downloads of the MySQL GUI Tools Bundle will remain available, but will be moved into the MySQL Archives location.

Users should begin planning to upgrade to MySQL Workbench 5.2 GA.

March 24, 2009

Support Ending for AIX 5.2

Per the MySQL Support Lifecycle policy regarding ending support for OS versions that have reached vendor end of life, we plan to discontinue building or supporting MySQL binaries for AIX 5.2 as of 2009-April-30. See IBM EOS (End of Support).

December 1, 2008

MySQL 4.0 Extended Support ends on December 31, 2008

Per the MySQL Support Lifecycle policy, extended support for MySQL 4.0 ends on December 31, 2008. MySQL Enterprise subscribers can continue to download 4.0 server binaries and source code from the Enterprise Customer Center at https://enterprise.mysql.com/.

October 15, 2008

Support EOL for Vendor/Low Usage Platforms

Per the MySQL Support Lifecycle policy regarding ending support for OS versions that have reached vendor end of life or that have little to no usage pattern, we plan to discontinue building MySQL binaries (Community, Enterprise, and Commercial) for version 4.1 effective 2008-Dec-31 and version 5.0 effective 2009-Dec-31 for the following OS versions.

These OS versions will not be supported for MySQL versions 5.1 and higher.

• HP-UX 11.00
• MAC OSX 10.3
• SCO OpenServer (all versions)
• QNX (all versions)

We will continue to provide source code and support for customers who wish to build MySQL 4.1 and higher on these and other specific OS versions.

As always, thanks for your continued support of MySQL!