[General] MySQL Upgrade

We have had a few clients ask about MySQL 5 on our servers. All of our servers currently run MySQL 4.1. Plans were made to begin upgrading our servers to MySQL 5.0 a couple of months ago, but then a bug was discovered in MySQL 5.0. Our MySQL system is dependent on cPanel and the upgrade actually comes through them. They are currently testing the new release of MySQL 5.0 but it has not yet made it to release status.

There are rumblings that this release will happen sometime in early December. It is at that point that we will begin updating our servers to MySQL 5. The version of MySQL will then be MySQL 5.0.67 unless another update is provided before then.

We can upgrade to MySQL 5.0 right now, but it would be a version that is known to have bugs. This is why we have put off the MySQL upgrade at this time. We don’t have a specific timetable for this upgrade, but we would like to have all of our servers upgraded by the end of December. This is of course dependent on the Quality Assurance testing from the cPanel team.

The MySQL upgrade is not expected to cause any problems or require any changes on the part of our client base. You should check back on the blog for updates concerning the upgrade.

Scott