MySQL Release Notes

June 2024

17 June

April 2024

8 April

  • You can now view hundreds of new database metrics by accessing the metrics API endpoint. For more detailed steps, see our guides for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka.

February 2024

13 February

  • You can now reconfigure MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis databases via the API, which lets you edit many database engine parameters that were previously unavailable for editing. For more detailed steps, see How to Reconfigure Database Clusters.

September 2023

29 September

  • The following MySQL and PostgreSQL plans are now deprecated:

    • MySQL and PostgreSQL plans with 8 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM, and 600 GB SSD ($480 per month)
    • MySQL and PostgreSQL plans with 16 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM, and 1220 GB SSD ($960 per month)

    All of your existing database clusters with these plans are still functional and accessible to you. However, you cannot resize them. To regain access to these features, fork your database to a new cluster with a supported plan. For more detailed steps, see our guides on how to fork MySQL databases and fork PostgreSQL databases.

  • When creating or resizing MySQL or PostgreSQL clusters on DigitalOcean, you can now add additional storage independently from your chosen database configuration plan. This provides a more economic option for increasing storage, rather than upgrading your cluster’s entire plan.

    For more details, see our guides on how to resize MySQL clusters and resize PostgreSQL clusters.

October 2022

13 October

  • When creating a new Kubernetes cluster, you can add a free database operator (now in beta), which allows you to automatically link new databases to your cluster. For more details, see our guide.

June 2022

27 June

  • To improve security, DigitalOcean no longer accepts TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 connections. This includes connections to www.digitalocean.com, cloud.digitalocean.com, and api.digitalocean.com.

March 2022

4 March

  • You can now configure your MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis managed databases by making a PATCH request to /v2/databases/{database_cluster_uuid}/config. For example:

    {
      "config": {
        "sql_mode": "ANSI,ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION,NO_ZERO_DATE,NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,STRICT_ALL_TABLES",
        "sql_require_primary_key": true
      }
    }
    

    For more details, see the full reference documentation for the managed databases API.

February 2022

1 February

  • The database online migration feature for the MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis database engines no longer supports migrating databases from clusters inside of DigitalOcean to other clusters inside of DigitalOcean.

January 2022

25 January

  • Online migration is now available for the MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis database engines. Online migration allows you to migrate databases from external servers or cloud providers to databases in your DigitalOcean account.

6 January

August 2021

9 August

  • Released v1.63.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release includes a number of new features:

    • The database firewall sub-commands now support apps as trusted sources
    • New monitoring alert sub-commands for creating and managing alert policies
    • The --droplet-agent flag was added to the compute droplet create sub-command to optionally disable installing the agent for the Droplet web console

March 2021

30 March

  • You can now deploy managed databases on Droplets with dedicated CPUs for the PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis engines.

June 2020

16 June

5 June

April 2020

28 April

  • The DigitalOcean Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service is now available for all customers. VPC replaces the private networking service. Existing private networks will continue to function as normal but with the enhanced security and features of the VPC service. See the description of VPC features for more information.

7 April

March 2020

4 March

January 2020

27 January

  • v1.13.0 of the DigitalOcean Terraform Provider is now available. This release adds support for tagging managed databases clusters.

December 2019

19 December

  • Released v1.12.0 of the DigitalOcean Terraform Provider. This release contains improvements to Managed Database support including a new resource for configuring trusted sources and the ability to set the global SQL mode or Redis eviction policy on a cluster. There is also a new data source for finding supported Kubernetes versions. Learn more on the Terraform Changelog.

17 December

  • Bandwidth billing for managed databases, originally slated to begin in January 2020, has been postponed to 2021. Egress bandwidth for managed databases clusters will continue to be waived until then.

November 2019

21 November

September 2019

4 September

August 2019

27 August

20 August