There has been a lot of focus on this for MySQL 5.7. Just take a look at the list of deprecations and changes: http://mysqlserverteam.com/removal-and-deprecati

There has been a lot of focus on this for MySQL 5.7. Just take a look at the list of deprecations and changes: http://mysqlserverteam.com/removal-and-deprecation-in-mysql-5-7/ http://mysqlserverteam.com/removal-and-deprecation-in-mysql-... We are currently looking into bug 199. The patch itself is probably too large to backport into a GA release.