Upcoming Changes in MySQL 5.7 Morgan Tocker, MySQL Community Manager The presentation outlines several proposed changes and deprecations in MySQL 5.7, including making replication more durable by default, replacing some InnoDB monitor tables with performance schema instrumentation, simplifying SQL modes, and deprecating features like ALTER IGNORE TABLE, the \N NULL synonym, and the Federated storage engine. Feedback is sought on these proposed changes to help guide MySQL's future development.