Village News for July 1st is live! Big changes for #MySQL in the last week. https://villagesql-blog.ghost.io/village-news-village-news-mysql-news-events-1-july-2026/ #MySQL #VillageSQL

Given questions we have gotten about the new MySQL governance, we wanted to publish our thoughts. MySQL's New Governance Model: Two steps forward, one step to the side, and one step backwards villagesql.com/blog/mysql-g... #MySQL #Oracle

Welcome to the team! Happy to add some 🪄 to the village.

Adding Fuzzy String Search to MySQL. New extensions to enable fuzzy matching. https://villagesql.com/blog/fuzzy-string/ #MySQL #VillageSQL

Village News with #MySQL news and database-specific events. Check it out! villagesql.com/blog/village...

Village News is out! Get hot fresh updates on MySQL news and events! https://villagesql.com/blog/village-news-5-june-2026/ #MySQL #PostgreSQL #VillageSQL

One of our design philosophies - Happy Path, Escape Hatch, and the Space Between Learn about how we think about extensibility and how it impacts our users. https://villagesql.com/blog/escape-hatch/ #MySQL

Rust Developers - Now you can extend MySQL with extensions written in Rust! If you are used to pgx/pgrx for PostgreSQL, now you can port those extensions to MySQL/VillageSQL. https://villagesql.com/blog/rust/ #MySQL #VillageSQL #PostgreSQL #Rust #pgrx

Exciting to see people building cool stuff with VillageSQL. Go Max! Hey Database! Go Fine Tune Yourself https://maxdemarzi.com/2026/05/29/hey-database-go-fine-tune-yourself/ #VillageSQL #MySQL #AI

Bringing #MySQL into the Agentic era by porting #PostgreSQL extensions to MySQL. We launched VillageSQL Skills to help anyone make an extension for MySQL. Support for @anthropic.com Claude Code, #Gemini CLI, agy, OpenAI #Codex, and @awscloud.bsky.social Kiro. villagesql.com/blog/extensi...

VillageSQL Server 0.0.4 is now available (and marked as the stable release for installs). Check it out! villagesql.com/blog/004/ #MySQL

Yeah! So excited to see everyone at Percona Live next week in Mountain View. Proud to be a Platinum Sponsor. Get 75% off with code 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐀𝟕𝟓!

The whole team will be in California (Mountain View) next week for the following events! Oracle #MySQL Contributor Summit (May 26) #SouthBaySystems Meetup (thanks @alexmillerdb.bsky.social ) @percona.bsky.social Live Conference (May 27-29) villagesql.com/blog/may-eve... Come say hello!

- "Decisions, Principles, and Lessons from a Year of Teaching MySQL New Tricks": Steve Schirripa will share lessons and challenges around extending relational database systems at @villagesql.bsky.social.

Excited to announce that VillageSQL will be speaking at South Bay Systems. Our co-founder, Steve Schirripa, will be speaking about what we learned extending #MySQL, a 30 year old codebase. Sign up to attend - https://luma.com/3j9twotu?tk=FDqNGL #MySQL #VillageSQL #SouthBaySystem #Databases

This week's edition of the Village News is out! Summary of key news in #MySQL world and upcoming events. Check it out! #MySQL #Database #OpenSource

We made it! We finally got an entry on @db-engines.bsky.social for VillageSQL, our fork of #MySQL. db-engines.com/en/system/Vi...

A write up of our AI extension for #MySQL that allows inference via cloud or locally on the database server. Check it out! Feedback welcome. villagesql.com/blog/vsql-ai/

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Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Steve Schirripa (MSE'00) will present how @villagesql.bsky.social is injecting new life into MySQL via extensions. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs...

So excited to speak to @db.cs.cmu.edu today!

We are a partnering with @percona.bsky.social to be a Platinum Sponsor for #PerconaLive so get 25% off on us! We look forward to seeing you at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA on May 27-29. Discount Code = PERCONALIVEVIL2625 perconalive.com/2026-usa/ #MySQL #Percona #Oracle

This week's installment of the Village News - a curated overview of #MySQL and database news that you might have missed over the last period. If you want to get these updates, just subscribe to the blog. Enjoy! villagesql.com/blog/village...

Do you have a plan for #MySQL 8.0 EOL this month? We put together a guide for folks that are trying to make decisions about what to do for their MySQL workloads. We hope it's helpful to layout all the options. villagesql.com/blog/mysql-8...

Village News is the weekly round-up of #MySQL and #Database news from the last week. villagesql.com/blog/village...

Check out @villagesql.bsky.social, the newest #MySQL fork: villagesql.com It's an #OpenSource venture backed by $35M from Google Ventures among others. It's a drop-in replacement for MySQL with an extension architecture. See their native UUID extension with efficient 16-byte storage as an example.

VillageSQL = MySQL + Extensions 🚀 🎉 We’re launching a drop-in replacement for MySQL with extensions built for the Agentic AI era. Try the initial release: villagesql.com/blog/introdu... #VillageSQL #MySQL #OpenSource #DevTools #AI #launched

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