Hibernate 5 has updated dialects for various databases, and MySQL 8 has a special one of its own. Here's an example hibernate.cfg.xml for MySQL 8 for Hibernate 5 apps or newer.

Hibernate MySQL persistence XML file As MySQL installations continue to migrate and evolve to newer versions, the online JPA and Hibernate 5 tutorials haven’t kept up with quite as much vigor. As a ...

MySQL drops master-slave and blacklist-whitelist terminology Engineering teams update internal terminologies all over the tech world. Latest examples include Twitter, JP Morgan, and Splunk.