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What is the recommended database driver for python 3.14 and MariaDB & MySQL, is mysqlclient and of life?
| Reported by: | stephanm | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | Uncategorized | Version: | 6.0 |
| Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Unreviewed | |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description (last modified by )
In https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/ref/databases/#mysql-db-api-drivers
mysqlclient is the recommended choice for MariaDB and MySQL.
On https://www.djangoproject.com/download/ you recommend to use the latest version of Python.
Python 3.14.2 has landed and 3.14.3 will land in the next days on 2026-02-03, so it has already got some bugfixes and real life feedback.
Now if I look in https://pypi.org/project/mysqlclient/#files the last release is dated 2025-01-10, so it's over one year old.
Actually I use python 3.13.11 on windows 64bit with mysqlclient: mysqlclient-2.2.7-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl
Actually there are no binary wheels for python 3.14 .
I looked also on https://github.com/PyMySQL/mysqlclient/commits/main/ seeing that the last commit was on 2025-02-23.
So it looks like that this project has stopped development, even if I did not find any statement about this.
My questions are:
- Are you aware of this situation (or did you perhaps talk to the mysqlclient developer)?
- What is your official recommended database driver choice for MariaDB / MySQL for python 3.14?
- If you can answer to 2.), can you please update the documentation?
Thanks :-)