Lazy consensus reached: * we add MySLQ 8.1 to be supported for 2.7,1 * when there will be 8.2, 8.3 etc we will just test 8.0 + latest 8.x with assumption the versions in-between are also working.
On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 7:28 PM Jarek Potiuk <ja...@potiuk.com> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > We are just about to merge the PR that adds MySQL 8.1 support in our CI: > https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/33522 > > It would not be worth mentioning in devlist, but Oracle changed their > strategy on releases and 8.1 (released about a month ago) is the first from > the series of "innovation releases" that will be followed by next LTS > release (some time next year) - as Andrey helpfully explained in the PR. > > Which means that we will likely have to bump the MySLQ versions a bit more > frequently. > > It looks like there are no breaking changes (or at least not ones that > would break our tests) and adding 8.1 was just a matter of adding it to our > list of versions. > > I do not think there is much say for the future, but assuming it will work > in a stable way, we might simply implement it in the future similarly to > Postgres - that we will run our tests for 8.0 + last of the 8.* innovation > releases (assuming that all versions in-between will work). > > For example when we will have 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 - we will run tests for > 8.0 and 8.3 and assume that 8.1 and 8.2 are also working fine. > > This is calling for a lazy consensus on that approach, with the proposal > that the 2.7.1 version of Airflow will get official 8.0 and 8.1 support. > > Let me know if there are any doubts, otherwise I assume a consensus. I > will let it run till Wednesday 23rd of August 2023, 7.30 pm CEST > > J. > > >
