mysql@8.4

Deprecation date: 2032-04-30

Install command: 
brew install mysql@8.4

Open source relational database management system

https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server

License: GPL-2.0-only WITH Universal-FOSS-exception-1.0

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/mysql@8.4.json

Formula code: mysql@8.4.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon		 tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
macOS on
Intel		 sonoma ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 8.4.10

Other versions:

mysql@8.0 8.0.46 Open source relational database management system

Revision: 1

Keg-only

Depends on:

abseil 20260107.1 C++ Common Libraries
icu4c@78 78.3 C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode and globalization
lz4 1.10.0 Extremely Fast Compression algorithm
openssl@3 3.6.3 Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
protobuf 35.1 Protocol buffers (Google's data interchange format)
zlib-ng-compat 2.3.3 Zlib replacement with optimizations for next generation systems
zstd 1.5.7 Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm

Depends on when building from source:

bison 3.8.2 Parser generator
cmake 4.4.0 Cross-platform make
pkgconf 3.0.2 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
A "/etc/my.cnf" or "/etc/mysql/my.cnf" from another install may interfere
with a Homebrew-built server starting up correctly.

We've installed your MySQL database without a root password. To secure it run:
     mysql_secure_installation

MySQL is configured to only allow connections from localhost by default

To connect run:
     mysql -u root

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