Hi,

There is no timeline at the moment for an upgrade. We are finishing at the
moment the upgrade of other servers in production from 10.0 to 10.1 and
from Debian Jessie to Stretch (87% completed), so that is the first blocker
to not think about other upgrades (as we cannot support more than 2
versions and operating systems).

We tested internally 10.3, and at the moment of the release we considered
it not yet ready for production. We are also looking closely at MySQL 8.0,
which also offers CTE support, but has other improvements, such as better
metadata handling.

We are likely going to skip over 10.2. However, I recently asked if CTEs
were useful for someone at wikitech [0] and I got very few responses, so it
is not at the moment a priority. Natural upgrades happen when: No older
version host are longer around, the version is tested enough so we are
confident it will cause not issues, and we have the resources to proceed
with the upgrade. Note that while new features are always nice, bugs
normally come with newer major versions, so every DBAs policy is normally
wait a few minor versions to avoid being beta-testers.

If I were to guess right now, a possible upgrade may happen mid-next year,
tied to Debian Buster upgrade, to either 10.3 or 8.0, but that is just a
guess, depends on the above factors. Please let us know how important are
things like CTEs or other features are to you so we can prioritize them
accordingly.

[0] <url:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-February/089565.html>
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