July 2020 Summaries

Vitess 7 has been made generally available, offering improved SQL support with features such as replica transactions, savepoint support, and system variable setting per session. The release also focuses on stability improvements, rewriting key components of the codebase to make it more maintainable. Additionally, Vitess 7 introduces several innovative features built on top of VReplication, including streaming table copies, schema versioning, and dedicated connections. New tutorials have been added to the documentation to help users get started with the new release.