Presentation of some of the new features of MySQL 8.0.16 released on April 25, 2019 Agenda: ➢ mysql_upgrade is no longer necessary ➢ CHECK Constraints ➢ Constant-Folding Optimization ➢ SYSTEM_USER & partial_revokes ➢ Chinese collation for utf8mb4 ➢ Performance Schema keyring_keys table ➢ MySQL Shell Enhancements ➢ MySQL Router Enhancements ➢ InnoDB Cluster Enhancements ➢ Group Replication Enhancements ➢ Size of the binary tarball for Linux ➢ Server quick settings validation