If you care about supporting open source software, and still use MySQL in 2026, you should switch to MariaDB like so many others have already done.\n

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MySQL's development has significantly declined under Oracle's stewardship, with commit activity dropping sharply in 2025 and staff reductions announced. Oracle conducts all development behind closed doors, rejecting community contributions and treating MySQL as open source only by license, not practice. Technical issues have plagued recent releases, including data corruption bugs, performance regressions of 15%, and difficult upgrade paths. Oracle published 123 CVEs in 2025 with minimal transparency compared to MariaDB's 8. Migration to MariaDB is straightforward for most applications, offering true open source development with active community participation. Major platforms like Wikipedia and 57% of WordPress sites already use MariaDB.

Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source

This is not surprising – Oracle should not be trusted as the steward for open source projects

MySQL’s technical decline in recent years

Open source is more than ideology: it has very real effects on software security and sovereignty

There are options and migrating is easy, just do it

I was already using MariaDB on the production server, but MySQL in the development environment. However, over the past few months, I’ve switched to MariaDB in development as well.

Been using MariaDB since he forked it.

so what is its not true open-source

Is MariaDB better though? As someone in the MSSQL space I have no skin in the this game but found this interesting.

Daang, i didnt know
Thanks for the info