only oracle knows. and they don’t share answer yet, on this site or any other

only public news so far is extremely brief twitter mention of future switch to separate LTS releases from feature releases

big picture, hard to see what would motivate them to major re-invest in current mysql product model! amazon, planetscale, and co all profit off of oracle’s mysql server development efforts. and oracle does not get anything in return

assume this why more and more mysql dev efforts go to saas-only product like “mysql heatwave”!