The document discusses upcoming changes and new features in MySQL 5.7. Key points include:
- MySQL 5.7 development has focused on performance, scalability, security and refactoring code.
- New features include online DDL support for additional DDL statements, InnoDB support for spatial data types, and cost information added to EXPLAIN output.
- Benchmarks show MySQL 5.7 providing significantly higher performance than previous versions, with a peak of 645,000 queries/second on some workloads.