import Intro from '/docs/snippets/breaking-change-page-intro.md'
import MigrationIntro from '/docs/snippets/breaking-change-page-migration-intro.md'

MySQL v5 is not supported in Strapi v5 anymore#

In Strapi 5, MySQL version 5 is not supported.

Breaking change description#

In Strapi v4

MySQL v5 is supported.

In Strapi 5

MySQL v5 is not supported anymore.

MySQL v8 is the minimum required version.

Migration#

Notes#

• The CLI installation guide lists the databases supported by Strapi 5.
• Please also consider that only the mysql2 package can be used with Strapi 5 for MySQL databases (see the related breaking change entry).

Migration procedure#

No manual migration is required for the codebase of your Strapi application.
Connection information will probably stay the same as in Strapi v4.

However, to use Strapi v5, you must upgrade your MySQL database to version 8.0 (see additional information in the official ).