Re: [Mifos-developer] Migration to MySQL 5.7

[Ed C. <ed...@mi...>]

+1 from my side as well.

Avik (or others) who might have already completed the upgrade on their own
builds of Fineract, could you shine light on any issues you experienced
during the upgrade and anything additional beyond what Steven has already
done you had to do for the upgrade?

Ed

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 9:04 AM, Myrle Krantz <my...@ap...> wrote:

> I would be a +1 on this suggestion, but maybe on a branch to be integrated
> after the upcoming release so that it can get a full cycle of testing
> before it’s released. What do others think?
>
> Best Regards,
> Myrle
>
> On Wed 17. Jan 2018 at 15:48 Steve Conrad <sco...@gm...> wrote:
>
> > To the Mifos and Fineract dev communities -
> >
> > My name is Steve Conrad, and I have recently begun volunteering with the
> > Mifos/Fineract community and really appreciate the great work that you
> all
> > are doing.
> >
> > I wanted to propose a new project to migrate the Fineract platform to
> MySQL
> > 5.7. There are several features in MySQL 5.7 that would benefit the
> project
> > - performance, embedded JSON objects in the schema, multithreaded
> > replication, among others.
> >
> > When I installed Fineract locally, I used MySQL 5.7. I had to change a
> few
> > of the database migration scripts. I have obviously not gone through all
> of
> > the use cases, but so far am running with no issues.
> >
> > Does anyone know of any reasons why we could not move to MySQL 5.7?
> > Obviously there would be a large testing task, but it may be a worthwhile
> > investment to keep the Fineract platform current.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Steve
> >
>



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