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+title: Release notes for Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server - April 2024
+description: Learn about the release notes for Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server April 2024.
+author: xboxeer
+ms.author: yuzheng1
+ms.date: 05/09/2024
+ms.service: mysql
+ms.subservice: flexible-server
+ms.topic: conceptual
+---
+
+# Azure Database For MySQL Flexible Server April 2024 Maintenance
+
+We're pleased to announce the May 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
+### [Accelerated logs in Azure Database for MySQL flexible server (General Availability)](../concepts-accelerated-logs.md)
+- Introducing a new type of disk designed to offer superior performance in storing binary logs and redo logs.
+
+## Improvement
+- Improved server restart logic, server restart has a timeout of 2 hours for none burstable servers, 4 hours timeout for burstable servers. After server restart workflow timeout, it would roll back and set the server state to Succeeded.
+- Improved the data-in replication procedures to show the real error message and safe exit when exception happens.
+- Improved the read replica creation workflow to precheck the VNet setting.
+    
+## Known Issues Fix
+- Fixed the issue that the server parameter max_connections and table_open_cache can't be configured correctly
+- Fixed the binlog issue of AAD user creation, which blocks the replication and HA failover.
+- Fixed the permission issue of universal restore and replica for AME subscription customer
+