Is MySQL syntax GROUP BY ... ASC/DESC removed or not?
From the &quot;changelogs&quot;.  This was unusually fast from 'deprecation' to 'removal'!
----- 2018-07-27 8.0.12 General Availability &amp; 2018-07-27 5.7.23 General Availability -- -- -----

Explicit ASC or DESC qualifiers for GROUP BY clauses are now deprecated and will be removed in a future MySQL version.

----- 2018-10-22 8.0.13 General Availability -- -- Incompatible Change -----

The deprecated ASC or DESC qualifiers for GROUP BY clauses have been removed. Queries that previously relied on GROUP BY sorting may produce results that differ from previous MySQL versions. To produce a given sort order, provide an ORDER BY clause.
Queries and stored program definitions from MySQL 8.0.12 or lower that use ASC or DESC qualifiers for GROUP BY clauses should be amended. Otherwise, upgrading to MySQL 8.0.13 or higher may fail, as may replicating to MySQL 8.0.13 or higher slave servers.