with the options required to provide NDB support. (Locations where the sources can be obtained are listed later in this section.) Important MySQL NDB Cluster does not support InnoDB Cluster, which must be deployed using MySQL Server 8.0 with the  InnoDB  storage engine as well as additional applications that are not included in the NDB Cluster distribution. MySQL Server 8.0 binaries cannot be used with MySQL NDB Cluster. For more information about deploying and using InnoDB Cluster, see Using MySQL AdminAPI. Section 23.1.6, “MySQL Server Using InnoDB Compared with NDB Cluster” , discusses differences between the  NDB  and  InnoDB  storage engines. This chapter contains information about NDB Cluster 8.0 releases through 8.0.26. NDB Cluster 8.0 is now available (beginning with NDB 8.0.19) as a General Availability release, and recommended for new deployments; the latest available release is NDB 8.0.25. NDB Cluster 7.6 and 7.5 are previous GA releases still supported in production; for information about NDB Cluster 7.6, see What is New in NDB Cluster 7.6. For similar information about NDB Cluster 7.5, see What is New in NDB Cluster 7.5. NDB Cluster 7.4 and 7.3 are previous GA releases still supported in production, although we recommend that new deployments for production use NDB Cluster 8.0; see MySQL NDB Cluster 7.3 and NDB Cluster 7.4. Supported Platforms.   NDB Cluster is currently available and supported on a number of platforms. For exact levels of support available for on specific combinations of operating system versions, operating system distributions, and hardware platforms, please refer to https://www.mysql.com/support/ supportedplatforms/cluster.html. Availability.   NDB Cluster binary and source packages are available for supported platforms from https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/. NDB Cluster release numbers.   NDB 8.0 follows the same release pattern as the MySQL Server 8.0 series of releases, beginning with MySQL 8.0.13 and MySQL NDB Cluster 8.0.13. In this  Manual  and other MySQL documentation, we identify these and later NDB Cluster releases employing a version number that begins with “NDB” . This version number is that of the  NDBCLUSTER  storage engine used in the NDB 8.0 release, and is the same as the MySQL 8.0 server version on which the NDB Cluster 8.0 release is based. Version strings used in NDB Cluster software.   The version string displayed by the  mysql  client supplied with the MySQL NDB Cluster distribution uses this format: mysql- mysql_server_version -cluster 3923 shell>  mysql Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 2 Server version: 8.0.26-cluster Source distribution Type ’help;’ or ’\h’ for help. Type ’\c’ to clear the buffer. mysql>  SELECT VERSION()\G *************************** 1. row *************************** VERSION(): 8.0.26-cluster 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql_server_version  represents the version of the MySQL Server on which the NDB Cluster release is based. For all NDB Cluster 8.0 releases, this is  8.0. n , where  n  is the release number. Building from source using  -DWITH_NDBCLUSTER  or the equivalent adds the  -cluster  suffix to the version string. (See Section 23.2.1.4, “Building NDB Cluster from Source on Linux” , and Section 23.2.2.2, “Compiling and Installing NDB Cluster from Source on Windows” .) You can see this format used in the  mysql  client, as shown here: