In this episode, we talk to Ben Meadowcroft (Product Lead for TiDB Core) about the latest Long-term Support (LTS) release TiDB 8.5 and discussed highlights of the release. 

* TiDB 8.5 release notes: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/release-8.5.0#tidb-850-release-notes 
* TiDB roadmap: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/dev/tidb-roadmap
* List of expressions for Pushdown:  https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/expressions-pushed-down
* TiDB #vectorsearch: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/vector-search-overview#vector-search-overview  
* Contributor blog post: https://medium.com/@ray.paik/tidb-8-5-is-here-b2ca09e972d5

————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————

PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedSQL database with #MySQL compatibility. TiDB powers modern applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics, and continuous access to data—all in a single database.

————————— Developer resources —————————

💫TiDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/TiDB_Developer
💫Introducing TiDB: https://youtu.be/_QBrPBwFoWM
💫Quick start with TiDB: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/quick-start-with-tidb
💫TiDB in #Kubernetes: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb-in-kubernetes/stable

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