>Hi All,
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>Since MySQL has 8.0, I was with impression that 5.7 won't be getting new updates.
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>As of October 2022, they still came up and released 5.7.40.
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>Your insights as to why please.. Thanks

Just my guess, but for the same reason that there are bug fixes for Windows 10 when Windows 11 is current. They know lots of people haven't upgraded yet, so it's important to keep fixing bugs.

Tamar