MariaDB diverged from MySQL 5.5 (2010). I'm quite proud of what we've managed to achieve since then: - MySQL 5.6 (2013) https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/e

MariaDB diverged from MySQL 5.5 (2010). I'm quite proud of what we've managed to achieve since then: - MySQL 5.6 (2013) https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-nutshell.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-nutshell.html - MySQL 5.7 (2015) I have a list @ http://www.thecompletelistoffeatures.com/ http://www.thecompletelistoffeatures.com/ - MySQL 8.0 (in development) http://mysqlserverteam.com/the-mysql-8-0-0-milestone-release-is-available/ http://mysqlserverteam.com/the-mysql-8-0-0-milestone-release... http://mysqlserverteam.com/the-mysql-8-0-1-milestone-release-is-available/ http://mysqlserverteam.com/the-mysql-8-0-1-milestone-release... In terms of some of the most recent work, I think the utf8mb4 performance improvements will have a big return for users: http://mysqlserverteam.com/mysql-8-0-when-to-use-utf8mb3-over-utf8mb4/ http://mysqlserverteam.com/mysql-8-0-when-to-use-utf8mb3-ove...