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36624	Drop support for MySQL < 8.4.	Mariusz Felisiak	Mariusz Felisiak	The end of support for MySQL 8.0 is April 2026. Moreover MySQL 8.1, 8.2, and 8.4 are short-term innovation releases. Therefore, Django 6.1 (released in August 2026) may set MySQL 8.4 as the minimum version that it supports (see SupportedDatabaseVersions).	Cleanup/optimization	closed	Database layer (models, ORM)	dev	Normal	fixed		Mariusz Felisiak	Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0