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MySQL 5.6 and Percona Server for MySQL 5.6 are End of Life

February 16, 2021
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Patrick Birch
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MySQL 5.6 End of LifeMySQL 5.6.51 is the last release of the MySQL 5.6 series. Oracle will no longer provide updates or security fixes for this version.

Following Percona’s Release Lifecycle policies, the Percona Server for MySQL 5.6 series has reached End of Life (EOL) as well, and we will no longer provide public builds for bugs and security fixes.

We recommend that you upgrade to MySQL 5.7 or Percona Server for MySQL 5.7, or for the latest features, MySQL 8.0 or Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.

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