Thanks for the information! > he also tries to simplify the internals, unlike Oracle who just churns out features along with regressions. Sadly, very true. I

Thanks for the information! > he also tries to simplify the internals, unlike Oracle who just churns out features along with regressions. Sadly, very true. I don't know how it was on 5.7 and before, however, at least since v8.0, even patch updates have an alarm probability of breaking existing installations, due to either bugs, or subtle changes in existing functionality.