Aurora MySQL database engine updates 2018-10-11 (version 2.03) (Deprecated) - Amazon Aurora
ImprovementsIntegration of MySQL community edition bug fixesComparison with Aurora MySQL version 1MySQL 5.7 compatibility

Aurora MySQL database engine updates 2018-10-11 (version 2.03) (Deprecated)

Version: 2.03

Aurora MySQL 2.03 is generally available. Aurora MySQL 2.x versions are compatible with MySQL 5.7 and Aurora MySQL 1.x versions are compatible with MySQL 5.6.

When creating a new Aurora MySQL DB cluster, you can choose compatibility with either MySQL 5.7 or MySQL 5.6. When restoring a MySQL 5.6-compatible snapshot, you can choose compatibility with either MySQL 5.7 or MySQL 5.6.

You can restore snapshots of Aurora MySQL 1.14.*, 1.15.*, 1.16.*, 1.17.*, 1.18.*, 2.01.*, and 2.02.* into Aurora MySQL 2.03.

We don't allow in-place upgrade of Aurora MySQL 1.* clusters into Aurora MySQL 2.03 or restore to Aurora MySQL 2.03 from an Amazon S3 backup. We plan to remove these restrictions in a later Aurora MySQL 2.* release.

Note

This version is currently not available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) [us-gov-west-1] and China (Beijing) [cn-north-1] regions. There will be a separate announcement once it is made available.

If you have any questions or concerns, AWS Support is available on the community forums and through AWS Support. For more information, see Maintaining an Amazon Aurora DB cluster in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.

Improvements

  • Performance schema is available.

  • Fixed an issue where zombie sessions with killed state might consume more CPU.

  • Fixed a dead latch issue when a read-only transaction is acquiring a lock on a record on the Aurora Writer.

  • Fixed an issue where the Aurora Replica without customer workload might have high CPU utilization.

  • Multiple fixes on issues that might cause the Aurora Replica or the Aurora writer to restart.

  • Added capability to skip diagnostic logging when the disk throughput limit is reached.

  • Fixed a memory leak issue when binlog is enabled on the Aurora Writer.

Integration of MySQL community edition bug fixes

  • REVERSE SCAN ON A PARTITIONED TABLE DOES ICP - ORDER BY DESC (Bug #24929748).

  • JSON_OBJECT CREATES INVALID JSON CODE (Bug#26867509).

  • INSERTING LARGE JSON DATA TAKES AN INORDINATE AMOUNT OF TIME (Bug #22843444).

  • PARTITIONED TABLES USE MORE MEMORY IN 5.7 THAN 5.6 (Bug #25080442).

Comparison with Aurora MySQL version 1

The following Amazon Aurora MySQL features are supported in Aurora MySQL version 1 (compatible with MySQL 5.6), but these features are currently not supported in Aurora MySQL version 2 (compatible with MySQL 5.7).

MySQL 5.7 compatibility

Aurora MySQL 2.03 is wire-compatible with MySQL 5.7 and includes features such as JSON support, spatial indexes, and generated columns. Aurora MySQL uses a native implementation of spatial indexing using z-order curves to deliver >20x better write performance and >10x better read performance than MySQL 5.7 for spatial datasets.

Aurora MySQL 2.03 does not currently support the following MySQL 5.7 features:

  • Global transaction identifiers (GTIDs). Aurora MySQL supports GTIDs in version 2.04 and higher.

  • Group replication plugin

  • Increased page size

  • InnoDB buffer pool loading at startup

  • InnoDB full-text parser plugin

  • Multisource replication

  • Online buffer pool resizing

  • Password validation plugin

  • Query rewrite plugins

  • Replication filtering

  • The CREATE TABLESPACE SQL statement

  • X Protocol