Oracle has published a blog post pledging greater transparency and community engagement around MySQL development, including prioritizing new features like vector search, AI alignment, and developer experience improvements. The announcement comes amid growing criticism of Oracle's stewardship, including declining MySQL market share versus PostgreSQL, reduced commits to the open-source repository, layoffs on the MySQL core team, and a community push to establish an independent foundation to guide MySQL's future. The community response is cautiously positive but awaits concrete timelines.
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