diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-command.yml b/.github/workflows/publish-command.yml
index ec24f801f53f7b..8a03a542be701d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-command.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-command.yml
@@ -14,8 +14,34 @@ on:
         required: false
 
 jobs:
-  publish_image:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+  ## Gradle Build
+  # In case of self-hosted EC2 errors, remove this block.
+  start-publish-image-runner:
+    name: Start Build EC2 Runner
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      label: ${{ steps.start-ec2-runner.outputs.label }}
+      ec2-instance-id: ${{ steps.start-ec2-runner.outputs.ec2-instance-id }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Configure AWS credentials
+        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v1
+        with:
+          aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.SELF_RUNNER_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
+          aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.SELF_RUNNER_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
+          aws-region: us-east-2
+      - name: Start EC2 Runner
+        id: start-ec2-runner
+        uses: machulav/ec2-github-runner@v2
+        with:
+          mode: start
+          github-token: ${{ secrets.SELF_RUNNER_GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
+          ec2-image-id: ami-04bd6e81239f4f3fb
+          ec2-instance-type: c5.2xlarge
+          subnet-id: subnet-0469a9e68a379c1d3
+          security-group-id: sg-0793f3c9413f21970
+  publish-image:
+    needs: start-publish-image-runner
+    runs-on: ${{ needs.start-publish-image-runner.outputs.label }}
     steps:
       - name: Search for valid connector name format
         id: regex
@@ -38,6 +64,17 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
         with:
           repository: ${{github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name}} # always use the branch's repository
+
+      # this intentionally does not use restore-keys so we don't mess with gradle caching
+      - name: Gradle and Python Caching
+        uses: actions/cache@v2
+        with:
+          path: |
+            ~/.gradle/caches
+            ~/.gradle/wrapper
+            **/.venv
+          key: ${{ secrets.CACHE_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}-${{ hashFiles('**/*.gradle*') }}-${{ hashFiles('**/package-lock.json') }}-${{ hashFiles('**/setup.py') }}-${{ hashFiles('**/requirements.txt') }}
+
       - uses: actions/setup-java@v1
         with:
           java-version: '14'
@@ -146,3 +183,25 @@ jobs:
           SLACK_COLOR: DC143C
           SLACK_TITLE: 'Failed to publish connector ${{ github.event.inputs.connector }} from branch ${{ github.ref	 }}'
           SLACK_FOOTER: ""
+  # In case of self-hosted EC2 errors, remove this block.
+  stop-publish-image-runner:
+    name: Stop Build EC2 Runner
+    needs:
+      - start-publish-image-runner # required to get output from the start-runner job
+      - publish-image # required to wait when the main job is done
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: ${{ always() }} # required to stop the runner even if the error happened in the previous jobs
+    steps:
+      - name: Configure AWS credentials
+        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v1
+        with:
+          aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.SELF_RUNNER_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
+          aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.SELF_RUNNER_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
+          aws-region: us-east-2
+      - name: Stop EC2 runner
+        uses: machulav/ec2-github-runner@v2
+        with:
+          mode: stop
+          github-token: ${{ secrets.SELF_RUNNER_GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
+          label: ${{ needs.start-publish-image-runner.outputs.label }}
+          ec2-instance-id: ${{ needs.start-publish-image-runner.outputs.ec2-instance-id }}
diff --git a/airbyte-config/init/src/main/resources/config/STANDARD_DESTINATION_DEFINITION/ca81ee7c-3163-4246-af40-094cc31e5e42.json b/airbyte-config/init/src/main/resources/config/STANDARD_DESTINATION_DEFINITION/ca81ee7c-3163-4246-af40-094cc31e5e42.json
index f026be5b97671f..e9a3ded6fa6344 100644
--- a/airbyte-config/init/src/main/resources/config/STANDARD_DESTINATION_DEFINITION/ca81ee7c-3163-4246-af40-094cc31e5e42.json
+++ b/airbyte-config/init/src/main/resources/config/STANDARD_DESTINATION_DEFINITION/ca81ee7c-3163-4246-af40-094cc31e5e42.json
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
   "destinationDefinitionId": "ca81ee7c-3163-4246-af40-094cc31e5e42",
   "name": "MySQL",
   "dockerRepository": "airbyte/destination-mysql",
-  "dockerImageTag": "0.1.5",
+  "dockerImageTag": "0.1.6",
   "documentationUrl": "https://docs.airbyte.io/integrations/destinations/mysql"
 }
diff --git a/airbyte-config/init/src/main/resources/seed/destination_definitions.yaml b/airbyte-config/init/src/main/resources/seed/destination_definitions.yaml
index 5c9759bf8557a6..d6a5dd8446bc6d 100644
--- a/airbyte-config/init/src/main/resources/seed/destination_definitions.yaml
+++ b/airbyte-config/init/src/main/resources/seed/destination_definitions.yaml
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 - destinationDefinitionId: ca81ee7c-3163-4246-af40-094cc31e5e42
   name: MySQL
   dockerRepository: airbyte/destination-mysql
-  dockerImageTag: 0.1.5
+  dockerImageTag: 0.1.6
   documentationUrl: https://docs.airbyte.io/integrations/destinations/mysql
 - destinationDefinitionId: d4353156-9217-4cad-8dd7-c108fd4f74cf
   name: MS SQL Server
diff --git a/airbyte-integrations/connectors/destination-mysql/Dockerfile b/airbyte-integrations/connectors/destination-mysql/Dockerfile
index 4afd31260cc160..4f968c7c3f0131 100644
--- a/airbyte-integrations/connectors/destination-mysql/Dockerfile
+++ b/airbyte-integrations/connectors/destination-mysql/Dockerfile
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ COPY build/distributions/${APPLICATION}*.tar ${APPLICATION}.tar
 
 RUN tar xf ${APPLICATION}.tar --strip-components=1
 
-LABEL io.airbyte.version=0.1.5
+LABEL io.airbyte.version=0.1.6
 LABEL io.airbyte.name=airbyte/destination-mysql
diff --git a/docs/integrations/destinations/mysql.md b/docs/integrations/destinations/mysql.md
index a0206daf13116c..5a77c5888393f6 100644
--- a/docs/integrations/destinations/mysql.md
+++ b/docs/integrations/destinations/mysql.md
@@ -56,3 +56,14 @@ You should now have all the requirements needed to configure MySQL as a destinat
 * **Password**
 * **Database**
 
+## CHANGELOG
+
+| Version | Date | Pull Request | Subject |
+| :--- | :---  | :--- | :--- |
+| 0.1.6 | 2021-07-03 | [#4531](https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/pull/4531) | Added normalization for MySQL. |
+| 0.1.5 | 2021-07-03 | [#3973](https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/pull/3973) | Added `AIRBYTE_ENTRYPOINT` for kubernetes support. |
+| 0.1.4 | 2021-07-03 | [#3290](https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/pull/3290) | Switched to get states from destination instead of source. |
+| 0.1.3 | 2021-07-03 | [#3387](https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/pull/3387) | Fixed a bug for message length checking. |
+| 0.1.2 | 2021-07-03 | [#3327](https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/pull/3327) | Fixed LSEP unicode characters. |
+| 0.1.1 | 2021-07-03 | [#3289](https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/pull/3289) | Added support for outputting messages. |
+| 0.1.0 | 2021-05-06 | [#3242](https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/pull/3242) | Added MySQL destination. |