OceanBase Community Monthly: Kernel and AI Tool Releases, Plus Events Across China

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August 2026 OceanBase Community Monthly: AgentSeek 0.0.5–0.1.1, V4.4.2_CE_BP2, OBD v4.5.0, 15 certifications, plus WAIC, Suzhou, and Beijing events.

The August 2026 edition of OceanBase Community Monthly covers AgentSeek v0.0.5, v0.1.0, and v0.1.1; OceanBase V4.4.2_CE_BP2; OBD v4.5.0; and 15 new ecosystem certifications. It also recaps community events at WAIC and in Suzhou and previews a Beijing meetup with Percona.

OceanBase Community Monthly August 2026 cover for kernel and AI tool releases

AgentSeek AI Application Toolkit Ships Three Releases

AgentSeek is an AI agent application toolkit incubated by the OceanBase open-source team. Its template-driven workflow lets developers discover, create, inspect, configure, run, observe, and iterate on applications in one place. Developers can quickly generate fully editable local agent projects built on stacks such as DeepAgents and LangChain, then add models, tools, MCP services, and database capabilities as needed. This shortens the path from sample code to working agent applications.

In July 2026, AgentSeek shipped v0.0.5, v0.1.0, and v0.1.1. The main changes:

v0.0.5 focused on template discovery and project creation: template details, keyword filters, and a custom output directory. It also added an Agentic Hybrid RAG template, migrated sandbox templates to DeepAgents with Daytona as the default, improved seekdb Agent Skills and LangChain template observability, and expanded docs for template selection, authoring, running, and the project lifecycle.
v0.1.0 was July’s milestone release. It introduced Lifecycle v2, improving project service discovery and lifecycle configuration loading; added support for explicitly specifying a template repository directory; and introduced a WeCom (Enterprise WeChat) channel so agent applications can receive and reply to messages. It also strengthened local project-path handling and environment-variable isolation.
v0.1.1 improved cross-platform stability: Windows subprocess management and cross-platform tests, a Daytona sandbox workspace-path fix, LangChain Agentic RAG templates defaulting to embedded seekdb, and a new DeepAgents MCP tool template.

AgentSeek v0.0.5 v0.1.0 and v0.1.1 release graphic for the OceanBase agent toolkit

These releases further improved AgentSeek’s developer experience, template ecosystem, messaging channels, cross-platform support, and seekdb integration, giving developers a more complete and stable toolchain for building and running local agent applications.

OceanBase Kernel Update Strengthens High Availability and Production Stability

Release details:

Release date: July 16, 2026
Version: V4.4.2_CE_BP2
RPM version: oceanbase-ce-4.4.2.2-102000022026071514

OceanBase V4.4.2_CE_BP2 kernel release graphic highlighting high availability

Key improvements in this release:

Stronger high availability and disaster recovery. Official support for strongly synchronized primary–standby deployments provides an RPO of zero. The release adds maximum protection and maximum availability modes, along with delayed standbys that reduce the risk of accidental deletes or updates being replicated immediately. Per-LS monitoring views and historical synchronization-position snapshots help operators pinpoint primary–standby synchronization issues.
Upgraded data-sync architecture. OBCDC evolves from a single-node dynamic library into a distributed, service-oriented architecture that scales horizontally for large-scale data subscription and change-data capture. UPDATE-event split/merge logic is also refined so downstream systems receive consistent CDC semantics.
Broader MySQL-mode compatibility. Support for the caching_sha2_password authentication plugin improves compatibility with MySQL clients and ecosystem tools. A full-width-to-half-width character conversion function is added for data-cleaning and migration workloads.
Faster SQL and PL execution. The release improves hard-parse memory management and plan-cache diagnostics. Performance work covers JSON processing, triggers, and global-index access paths, improving efficiency and diagnosability under complex workloads.
Stronger backup, archive, and storage management. Backup data-integrity checks, faster archive start/stop, and finer recycle-bin task scheduling improve restore reliability and space management.
Safer runtime and more automated operations. A Python UDF sandbox isolates user-defined functions from the database process. Automatic outline binding for database- and table-sharding scenarios reduces manual configuration and improves SQL stability in complex production environments.

Overall, V4.4.2_CE_BP2 maintains the V4.4.x line’s emphasis on stability while filling gaps in primary–standby disaster recovery, distributed data synchronization, and enterprise compatibility. It also strengthens performance diagnostics, backup and archiving, and security isolation, providing a firmer foundation for critical, large-scale OceanBase deployments.

Installation and Deployment Tool OBD v4.5.0 Released

New capabilities:

End-to-end deployment of the OceanBase AI database and its Logservice dependency, including basic Logservice lifecycle management through OBD.
Support for upgrading OceanBase Database to the 4.6.x series.

OBD v4.5.0 release graphic for OceanBase AI database and Logservice deployment

15 New Ecosystem Compatibility Certifications

Fifteen ecosystem products were certified in July. Details:

Partner	Product	Product version	OB version	Certificate ID
Beijing Zhongrui Tianxia Information Technology Co., Ltd.	Ruiyan Full-Traffic Security Analysis System	V8	V4	OB2026070001B
Beijing Zhongrui Tianxia Information Technology Co., Ltd.	Ruiyan Domain Security Monitoring System	V2	V4	OB2026070002B
Wuhan Hualaixin Software Co., Ltd.	Hualaixin Laboratory Information Management Software	V5.0	V4	OB2026070003B
Inner Mongolia Jiahang Technology Co., Ltd.	Medical Waste Supervision Platform	v1.0	V4	OB2026070004B
Inner Mongolia Jiahang Technology Co., Ltd.	Multi-Screen Integrated Information Publishing System	v1.0	V4	OB2026070005B
Beijing Zhongtou Chuanzhan Technology Co., Ltd.	Lingdong Cockpit	V6.0.0	V4	OB2026070006B
Nanjing Yilian Sunshine Information Technology Co., Ltd.	Medical Community Information Management System V2.0	V2.0	V4	OB2026070007B
Nanjing Yilian Sunshine Information Technology Co., Ltd.	Hospital Information Management System V2.0	V2.0	V4	OB2026070008B
Wuhan Hualaixin Software Co., Ltd.	Hualaixin Transfusion Information Management Software	V5.0	V4	OB2026070009B
Shaanxi Zhong’an Shulian Information Technology Co., Ltd.	Zhong’an Shulian Backup and Recovery System TeraBackup 1.0	1.0	V3	OB2026070010B
Tianjin Haina Tianzhi Technology Co., Ltd.	Integrated Security System V1.0	V1.0	V4	OB2026070011B
Shanghai Huizhao Information Technology Co., Ltd.	Digital Intelligent Procurement Platform V6	V6	V4	OB2026070012B
Beijing Quanzhiwei Technology Co., Ltd.	Intelligent Large Model Operations Platform	V5.0	V4	OB2026070013B
Guangdong Yingshi Computer Technology Co., Ltd.	Coremail XT Security-Enhanced Email System V6.0	V6.0	V4	OB2026070014B
Guangdong Yingshi Computer Technology Co., Ltd.	Coremail AI Security-Enhanced Email System V1.2	V1.2	V4	OB2026070015B

July 2026 OceanBase ecosystem compatibility certification graphic for fifteen products

Community Updates

1. WAIC Lunch Meetup — From Cloud Agents to Edge Devices: Make AI Remember, Run Fast, and Stay Accurate

On July 19, during the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, the community hosted a lunch meetup on embodied intelligence, one of the conference’s most prominent topics. Using intelligent driving as an example, the team explained OceanBase’s technical approach and led a hands-on workshop. In two hours, attendees explored:

In the cloud: long-term memory and higher retrieval precision for Agents
On the edge: how embodied-intelligence and autonomous-driving systems can work within hardware compute and storage constraints while supporting real-time perception and decision-making

WAIC 2026 OceanBase lunch meetup graphic on cloud agents and edge devices

2. What Agents Lack from Demo to Production Is Not the Model—It Is Memory

On July 31, the community visited Suzhou to discuss the agent runtime stack: how to build sustainable, enterprise-ready agentic AI infrastructure compatible with China’s Xinchuang ecosystem, and how to explore real-world user scenarios.

Suzhou OceanBase meetup graphic on agent runtime memory and production infrastructure

3. August Event Preview: OceanBase and Percona in Beijing

On August 15, the community will partner with the international database company Percona for an industry exchange in Zhongguancun. The theme is Compatibility or rewrite? The risks and opportunities for databases in the AI era.

August 15 Zhongguancun OceanBase and Percona database meetup event poster

While the industry focuses on large models and AI applications, one principle remains clear: compute is precious, but data is even more valuable. Without a strong database foundation, any form of intelligence is built on sand. Speakers include:

Percona founders Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko
Peng Lixun, chief architect of Huawei Cloud’s cloud-native database engine, vice chair of the CCIA special committee, and chair of ACMUG
Database expert Yang Jianrong, a DBAplus community co-founder and author of Oracle DBA Work Notes and MySQL DBA Work Notes
Wang Guangyou, head of databases at DiDi
Yang Chuanhui, CTO of OceanBase

Zhongguancun meetup speaker lineup featuring Percona founders and OceanBase CTO

This meetup moves beyond the hype and returns to first principles. MySQL remains a central force in the database ecosystem, so we have brought together a broad cross-section of that community: international community leaders, domestic database experts, cloud-native pioneers, and enterprise practitioners. The discussion will focus on three questions:

How can AI make databases smarter? (AI for DB)
How can databases better support AI applications? (DB for AI)
What stays, and what changes, for the MySQL ecosystem over the next decade?

What to expect:

A rare gathering of leaders from across the global MySQL ecosystem to discuss the paradigm shift facing databases in the AI era
Practical integration points between AI and databases—separating proven capabilities from marketing claims and reducing technology-selection risk
Where international community-led and domestic in-house approaches diverge and converge, and how AI may reshape database kernels
The real state of AI-assisted operations (AIOps)—which tools are usable today, and which are still just concepts

OceanBase Percona meetup highlights on AI for DB and MySQL ecosystem

Every month, we hold a community progress briefing. Through more interaction, we hope to make the OceanBase open-source community more transparent, share information openly, maintain a welcoming atmosphere, answer questions, and give everyone a voice.

If you have suggestions for the community, please open an issue or pull request in the OceanBase GitHub repository. You are also welcome to become a contributor and help build the community.

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