The first stable version of MySQL 5.7 was released in October with a large number of new features and improvements, such as JSON support, new optimizer hints, functional indexes, a query rewriting framework, a new optimizer cost model, new GIS functions, a number of InnoDB improvements, Group Replication, Fabric, performance schema extensions, SYS schema, Workbench, and much more!

This talk covers all that and more. We won't go into the details of every feature, but we'll get a quick overview of what's new and how all the individual pieces fit together.