Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

DB System Upgrades

MySQL HeatWave Service supports automatic and manual upgrades.

  • Automatic upgrades:
    • Updates within the same version, such as 8.0.33-u1, are applied automatically during the maintenance window that you define on the DB system. The update versions contain critical patches such as security and stability fixes.
    • A deprecated version becomes unavailable about three months after the deprecation date. See MySQL Versions Deprecation and Removal Policy in MySQL HeatWave Service. Any DB system that is still running an unavailable version will be upgraded automatically in its next maintenance window, according to the maintenance policy defined on the DB System.
    • For an Always Free DB system, the maintenance process will always upgrade the database version to the highest version available.
  • Manual upgrades: You can manually upgrade the version. See:
    Note

    It is recommended to perform a full backup of the DB system before upgrading. See Creating a Manual Backup.

Manually Upgrading a DB System

Use the Console or CLI to manually upgrade a DB system to a higher version. You can upgrade to the same version (to get the latest security and critical fixes), but you cannot downgrade to an earlier version.

Note

If you want to perform a major version upgrade such as MySQL 8.0 to MySQL 8.4, you should check the changes before upgrading. See Major Version Upgrade.

Using the Console

Use the Console to manually upgrade the DB system.

This task requires the following:
  • A running DB system.
Do the following to upgrade the DB system:
  1. On the DB systems list page, find the DB systems that you want to work with. If you need help finding the list page or the DB system, see Listing DB Systems - Using the Console.
  2. Select the Details tab.
  3. In the Database version field, click Edit.
    The Edit database version pane appears.
  4. From the Database version list, select the required version.
    Note

    You can select the same version to get the latest service updates if the version is still available in the service.
  5. Click Update.
The DB system enters the UPDATING state while it is being upgraded.

Using the CLI

Use the command-line interface to manually upgrade the DB system.

This task requires the following:
Do the following to upgrade the DB system:
  1. To retrieve the list of available versions, use the version list command:
    oci mysql version list --compartment-id <CompartmentOCID>
    You get a response similar to the following:
    {
  "data": [
    {
      "version-family": "8.4",
      "versions": [
        {
          "description": "8.4.6",
          "version": "8.4.6"
        },
        {
          "description": "8.4.7",
          "version": "8.4.7"
    }
  ]
}
  2. Confirm the version of the DB system. See Retrieving the Version of a MySQL Server.
  3. Upgrade the version from a lower version to a higher version such as 8.4.7 to 8.4.8, or to the same version, such as 8.4.7 to 8.4.7 to get the latest service updates:
    oci mysql db-system update 
             --db-system-id <DBSystemOCID> 
             --mysql-version <TargetMySQLVersion>
After you run the CLI command, the status of the DB system changes to UPDATING and subsequently the version changes to the specified target MySQL version.