On January 17 2023, MySQL Server 8.0.32 was released. It is the latest release of our MySQL 8.0 General Availability Release.
The new release introduces a few new features alongside with some deprecations, as well as bugfixes and security fixes.

Let’s dive into some detail on these new features and changes

MySQL Enterprise

  • On Windows, the MySQL Enterprise client-side Kerberos authentication plugin now supports GSSAPI through the MIT Kerberos library.

Optimizer

  • Adding explain_format to make the default explain format configurable globally and per session. Possible options are DEFAULT, TRADITIONAL, JSON & TREE.
mysql> SET @@explain_format=TREE;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> SELECT @@explain_format;
+------------------+
| @@explain_format |
+------------------+
| TREE             |
+------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> EXPLAIN SELECT Name FROM country WHERE Code LIKE 'A%'\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
EXPLAIN: -> Filter: (country.`Code` like 'A%')  (cost=3.67 rows=17)
    -> Index range scan on country using PRIMARY over ('A' <= Code <= 'A????????')  (cost=3.67 rows=17)

Deprecations

mysql> CREATE TABLE $table (col1 int);
Query OK, 0 rows affected, 1 warning (0.03 sec)

mysql> SHOW WARNINGS;
+---------+------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Level   | Code | Message                                                                                                     |
+---------+------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Warning | 1681 | '$ as the first character of an unquoted identifier' is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. |
+---------+------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

More information

Find the full list of bugfixes and features on our release notes on https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/8.0/en/news-8-0-32.html

For more detail on security fixes as part of Oracle CPU Jan 2023, go to https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2023.html#AppendixMSQL

In conjunction with the MySQL Server 8.0.32 release, new 8.0 releases NDB Cluster, MySQL Connectors, MySQL Workbench, MySQL Shell, MySQL Router & MySQL Operator for Kubernetes happened, as well as maintenance release MySQL Server 5.7.41.
Changes in all these releases since the previous one can be viewed online on https://dev.mysql.com/doc/#current-release-notes