End of life, severity medium

MySQL 9.6 reached end of life on 2026-04-21

Published October 31, 2026

MySQL 9.6 no longer gets security fixes.

Deadline: April 21, 2026

What's affected

• mysql>=9.6 <9.7

What to do

1. Upgrade MySQL to a supported version (latest 9.6.x is 9.6.1; move to a newer cycle).

Check whether you were affected

Pharon tells teams automatically when this affects something they run. To check a machine, run this in Claude Code with the Pharon plugin, in the repository that uses it:

/pharon:check-incident eol-mysql-9-6

References

• https://endoflife.date/mysql

Notice eol-mysql-9-6, signed with key feed-prod-2026-10 (Ed25519). The Pharon CLI verifies the signature before using a notice.