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+title: Release notes for Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server - July 2024
+description: Learn about the release notes for Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server July 2024.
+author: xboxeer
+ms.author: yuzheng1
+ms.date: 06/01/2024
+ms.service: mysql
+ms.subservice: flexible-server
+ms.topic: conceptual
+---
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+# Azure Database For MySQL Flexible Server July 2024 Maintenance
+
+We're pleased to announce the July 2024 maintenance for Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server. This maintenance incorporates several new features and improvement, along with known issue fix, and security patches.
+
+## Engine version changes
+No engine version upgrade in this maintenance
+
+To check your engine version, run `SELECT VERSION();` command at the MySQL prompt
+
+## Features
+
+
+## Improvement
+- Allow customers to truncate performance_schema tables by invoking a pre-defined stored procedure.
+- Improve the startup time for servers with large amount of tablespaces.
+    
+## Known Issues Fix
+- Fixed the issue that MySQL engine may not receive the shutdown signal during scaling and maintenance, which may lead to long recovery time.
+- Fixed the issue that if server with originalPrimaryName is deleted due to HA failover->disable HA action, earlier ATP update operation failed. 
+- Fixed the issue that unhealthy servers/Burstable servers without credits will now throw ServerNotSucceeded instead of Internal Server Error