Users have six months to migrate from MySQL 8.0 if they are to stay on a supported version of the open source database, or face security and reliability risks.

Percona, a provider of open source database support services and Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), has warned that more than half its MySQL instances remain on MySQL 8.0, support for which ends on April 30, 2026 .

Peter Zaitsev, Percona co-founder, told The Register : "Every piece of complex software has bugs which may not have been found yet. Some of those bugs are also security bugs. These are the most problematic: when you have software which is not supported, not maintained, that means those bugs are not going to be fixed anymore."

Data from PMM, Percona's open source database management tool, shows that 58 percent of MySQL and

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