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 you assess your site(s) readiness and plan accordingly. We recommend that your active theme and all plugins have been updated before the upgrade. We strongly advise that your sites are running PHP 8.2 (minimum) before the forced upgrade to MySQL 8.0.