I had need today to download a version of MySQL 4.1 to test something. The MySQL Developer Zone archives no longer provides any software before 5.0.
While this may have long reached EOL and is no longer support, customers still do run this version of MySQL.
Anybody that can help out with binaries (on several OS’s), it would be appreciated.
VillageSQL published Access MySQL over MCP with vsql-mcp . The extension serves the Model Context Protocol from inside the database, so an agent talks to MySQL over Streamable HTTP without a sidecar holding a credential.
Read moreFor this quick verification of the 0.0.7 development branch of VillageSQL with the new vsql-vector plugin. Recreate the VillageSQL Percona Live presentation using MySQL version 8.4 and SVECTOR. Demonstrate a more detailed example using SVECTOR(1024) string embedded data.
Read moreAt PyCon AU 2026 , the presentation Your Python container is 90% stuff you didn’t ask for by Scott Norris at Chainguard really exposed the impact of being lazy in container management for security purposes.
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