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The latest stable release of MySQL is 5.7, no? Why the jump to 8.0?

6.0 was a canceled release. 7.x. is used by Cluster. 8.0 makes it easy to follow as "it just drops the 5".

For a moment I thought we were talking about PHP :)

I'm not sure what it is, but it seems everyone struggles with 6.0. Perl made it, but it took a while :)