<ul><li>Amazon RDS recently announced support for the latest Long-Term Support (LTS) major version from the MySQL community: MySQL version 8.4.</li><li>Amazon RDS now supports MySQL Community Edition versions 8.0 and 8.4.</li><li>MySQL has introduced, as well as retired, multiple features with version 8.4.</li><li>Before planning a MySQL upgrade, review upgrade path guidelines from the MySQL community.</li><li>MySQL 8.4 includes several enhancements such as automatic histogram updates, improved Group Replication, and updates to the Group Replication plugin.</li><li>Starting with MySQL 8.4, Amazon RDS replaced OpenSSL with AWS-LC as cryptographic library provider.</li><li>InnoDB_dedicated_server is enabled by default to provide a performance boost for certain workloads.</li><li>The Memcached plugin has been removed entirely starting with MySQL 8.4.</li><li>Amazon RDS encourages users to upgrade to version MySQL 8.4 for the new features and performance improvements.</li><li>Authors of the article are Mershad Irani, a Database Engineer, and Vijay Karumajji, a Principal Database Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services.</li></ul>

Amazon RDS for MySQL LTS version 8.4 is now generally available

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