MySQL 5.7 is reaching its end-of-life status on our platform. WordPress relies on the widely-used MySQL database to store and manage your website's data. Updating to the most current version of MySQL ensures that your site is optimised for the future and protected against a greater number of threats.
During the upgrade, your sites will be put in a maintenance mode to ensure no corruption of data.
To minimise possible disruptions to your sites after updating to MySQL 8.0, we recommend that y...