During todays update to 4.41.2 I noted a warning: │Warning: MySQL 8 will be the required database in the next major release of Ghost. Any information on when / which version? Is this planned for v5? I host on Debian, and the default mysql-server package is mariadb-server-10.5 - (yes, IMHO Debian …

When will MySQL 8 be mandated? Which ver?

vikaspotluri123 March 25, 2022, 1:12am 2

Yep, Ghost will need MySQL 8 for v5.0+ as it’s a breaking change!

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