I am excited to be speaking at COSCUP 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan on August 8th and 9th. COSCUP (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters) is one of the largest open source conferences in Asia, and it is always a privilege to present to the engaged and technically sharp community there.
Planning your upgrade to MySQL 9.7
The recent release of MySQL 9.7 Long Term Support (LTS) community edition joins MySQL 8.4 LTS as the two current LTS releases. The popular and widely used MySQL 8.0 has now reached end of life. Organizations running MySQL 8.0 should be migrating to MySQL 8.4 and evaluating the roadmap of features and capabilities of the new MySQL 9.7.
In this session, we’ll take a deep dive into the new capabilities shipping in MySQL 9.7 Community Edition: full DML support for JSON Duality Views, the Hypergraph Optimizer, enhanced security management, and a number of Enterprise-only components now available to all — including replication observability tools and OpenTelemetry-based telemetry integration.
This talk focuses on how to responsibly evaluate and test a major version release before committing to it in production. We’ll walk through a practical checklist covering compatibility assessment, workload testing, staged rollout strategies, and rollback planning — tailored for:
- Developers integrating new features into application workflows
- DBAs managing the migration and monitoring behavior changes
- Engineering leadership weighing the timing and scope of the upgrade
Attendees will leave with a solid understanding of MySQL 9.7’s most impactful features and a hands-on evaluation framework they can take directly back to their team.
I look forward to seeing everyone in Taipei in August. You can find slides after the event on my presentations page.
