Author here (and product manager for MySQL). We do not have a date yet for MySQL 8.0, but it is coming closer. We are on a ~2-3 year release cycle with 5.7 re

Author here (and product manager for MySQL). We do not have a date yet for MySQL 8.0, but it is coming closer. We are on a ~2-3 year release cycle with 5.7 released Oct 2015. Many of the features of this guide are now specific to MySQL. MariaDB diverged from MySQL 5.5 (2010).