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MySQL Release Notes

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Upcoming Changes

Managed MySQL 8.0 database clusters are scheduled for forced upgrades to MySQL 8.4 beginning 30 October 2026 during each cluster’s maintenance window.

Learn more on MySQL 8.0 End of Life and Forced Upgrades Beginning 30 October 2026.

July 2026

15 July

Managed databases are available in Kansas City (mkc1) with limited plan availability. Premium AMD plans and General Purpose MongoDB clusters are not available in this region. See the regional availability matrix for current coverage by engine.

May 2026

19 May

MySQL 8.4 is now available for database clusters. New clusters use MySQL 8.4 by default. For version support and MySQL 8.0 end of life, see MySQL Limits.

April 2026

28 April

MySQL Advanced Edition clusters are now available in public preview, offering enhanced performance and scalability for production workloads.

20 April

Managed databases support additional Premium AMD and Premium Intel plan options, which provide higher network throughput than Regular plans. For more information, see the create guides for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Valkey, OpenSearch, and Kafka.

15 April

Managed databases are available in Atlanta (atl1) and Richmond (ric1) with limited plan availability. Premium AMD plans are available in Atlanta only. See the regional availability matrix for current coverage by engine.

March 2026

15 March

You can now connect Managed MySQL Standard Edition, Managed PostgreSQL Standard Edition, and Managed MongoDB clusters to Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) for metrics and query analytics. Deploy the PMM Marketplace 1-Click App, then use the PMM Integration helper web UI to register clusters with PMM. MySQL and PostgreSQL Advanced Edition clusters are not supported. For setup steps, see How to Monitor Managed MySQL with PMM 1-Click App, How to Monitor Managed PostgreSQL with PMM 1-Click App, or How to Monitor Managed MongoDB with PMM 1-Click App.

13 March

Multi-threaded imports for Managed MySQL online migration are available in public preview. To enable multi-threaded imports, contact support. We recommend single-threaded migration for production source databases, because multi-threaded imports can increase load on the source and affect performance. For more information, see How to Migrate MySQL Databases.

10 March

Managed database clusters for PostgreSQL Standard Edition, MySQL Standard Edition, Valkey, OpenSearch, and Kafka now send email notifications when maintenance is scheduled, when it starts, and when it completes. See cluster notifications for PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey, OpenSearch, and Kafka for more information.

February 2026

24 February

DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Standard Edition and MySQL Standard Edition clusters now support custom CNAME records, allowing clients to connect through your own hostname instead of the default *.db.ondigitalocean.com address. Custom CNAMEs are available through the API when creating clusters or replicas. Advanced Edition clusters do not support custom CNAMEs. For more information, see Configure Custom CNAMEs for PostgreSQL or Configure Custom CNAMEs for MySQL.

January 2026

8 January

The Network Access tab for managed databases now shows a resource type icon next to each trusted source, so you can distinguish sources that share the same display name, such as a Droplet and a tag. When you add trusted sources with Quick select, the dropdown also groups resources by type. To add trusted sources, see our guides for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Valkey, OpenSearch, and Kafka.

September 2025

17 September

Storage autoscaling is now in general availability. Additionally, you can now reduce your cluster’s amount of additional storage, as long as the new storage size is greater than or equal to the latest backup’s size plus any data growth since then and a 25% buffer.
Now in public preview, you can now enable storage autoscaling on all Managed Database engines. To enable autoscaling, see our resizing guides for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, OpenSearch, and Kafka.

July 2025

1 July

The DOKS database operator, which facilitated integration of DOKS clusters with managed databases, is deprecated. Your existing databases remain operational and the operator-related CRDs are not removed. You can use the DigitalOcean API, CLI, or control panel to manage the databases created with the operator.

May 2025

16 May

New managed database clusters are now automatically provisioned with default alert policies for CPU, memory, and disk utilization at a 90% threshold. These alerts notify you via email when resource usage is high, so you can investigate your application load or scale your cluster. You can modify or remove the default alerts at any time. For more information, see the following:

March 2025

19 March

We have released new Storage-Optimized Droplet plans for MySQL and PostgreSQL with 48 CPUs, 384 GiB of RAM, and 20 TB (MySQL)/30 TB (PostgreSQL) of storage in SGP1, SFO2, and FRA1. For more details, see our pricing pages for MySQL and PostgreSQL.

February 2025

28 February

All managed databases except MongoDB now support up to 2,000 IP addresses as trusted sources. To add trusted sources, see our guides for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Caching, MongoDB, OpenSearch, and Kafka.

December 2024

20 December

All Managed Databases are now available in NYC2.

June 2024

17 June

Managed databases now supports log forwarding to OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, and Rsyslog. You can create and manage log sinks using the control panel and DigitalOcean API. For more detailed steps, see our guides for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, and Kafka.

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 1,220 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 documentation on GitHub.

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

All DigitalOcean databases now support App Platform apps as trusted sources, including MongoDB.

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

You can now remove all global SQL modes from MySQL database clusters. Global SQL modes affect the SQL syntax MySQL supports and the data validation checks it performs.

5 June

Beginning 4 June 2020, you are required to create a primary key for each new table in any DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database to improve cluster performance.

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

We began the incremental release of the DigitalOcean Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service. It will be available for all customers soon. VPC replaces the private networking service.

March 2020

4 March

Users can now set legacy MySQL 5x password encryption for MySQL 8+ managed databases from the control panel and API.

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

Users can now use the DigitalOcean API to set and modify trusted sources for managed databases to restrict incoming connections.
MySQL managed database clusters now support setting the global SQL mode via the control panel and the API. See How to Set Global SQL Mode on MySQL Clusters for more information.

September 2019

4 September

Managed databases for MySQL and Redis are now available in SGP1, BLR1, and TOR1, and MySQL is now in General Availability. Learn more in the MySQL and Redis announcement blog post.

August 2019

27 August

Managed databases for MySQL and Redis in Limited Availability are now available in the AMS3, LON1, and NYC3 datacenter regions. Learn more in the MySQL and Redis announcement blog post.

20 August

Managed databases for MySQL and Redis have been released in early availability in the NYC1, FRA1, and SFO2 datacenter regions. Learn more in the MySQL and Redis announcement blog post.

MySQL Release Notes

Upcoming Changes

July 2026

15 July

May 2026

19 May

April 2026

28 April

20 April

15 April

March 2026

15 March

13 March

10 March

February 2026

24 February

January 2026

8 January

September 2025

17 September

July 2025

1 July

May 2025

16 May

March 2025

19 March

February 2025

28 February

December 2024

20 December

June 2024

17 June

April 2024

8 April

February 2024

13 February

September 2023

29 September

October 2022

13 October

June 2022

27 June

March 2022

4 March

February 2022

1 February

January 2022

25 January

6 January

August 2021

9 August

March 2021

30 March

June 2020

16 June

5 June

April 2020

28 April

7 April

March 2020

4 March

January 2020

27 January

December 2019

19 December

17 December

November 2019

21 November

September 2019

4 September

August 2019

27 August

20 August

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