With few new features and heavy focus on code base cleanup and feature deprecation, it became obvious to many that Oracle had decided to just keep MySQL barely alive, and put all new relevant features (e.g. vector search) into Heatwave, Oracle’s closed-source and cloud-only service for MySQL customers.

In case anyone was wondering what is happening

It used to be LAMP (Linux - Apache - MySQL and PHP) that power the web.

Linux is the only thing still there.

Apache is losing ground to Nginx

MySQL is losing ground to Postgres

And PHP is ju losing ground to many new frameworks in different languages