I submitted this with the correct 8.1 link, and somehow HN keeps changing it to the 8.0 link automatically upon submission! Super weird behavior on HN's side.
I tried re-submitting the 8.1 link, and it did it again, and also marked it as a dupe. Maybe I'll try submitting the corresponding blog post instead, although the title on that doesn't explicitly mention how 8.1 is released, so it's unlikely to get traction here...
Regarding your second paragraph though, you're completely mistaken. MySQL 8.0 used a rolling release model of adding new features in every quarterly release. They're just changing the versioning scheme starting today with 8.1.
Re:What Is New in MySQL 8.1
by idiomaticrust on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @11:26AM
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Maybe HN knows better ;)
Anyway, thanks for submitting it. Otherwise I could miss it.
Re:What Is New in MySQL 8.1
by idiomaticrust on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @11:18AM
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I hope that MariaDB as a foundation and company will be in better shape in the near future.
From my POV I will say that it's a sad state. MySQL 8.0 was released back in 2018. So after 5 years of development, we have 10 new features. I'm not surprised. Oracle is one of the biggest cancers in IT world.