[FINERACT-897] Make Fineract compatible with both MySQL5.7 and MySQL 8

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: Database
• Labels: technical
• Assignee: Yemdjih Kaze Nasser
• Reporter: Michael Vorburger
• Created: 17/Apr/20 22:00
• Updated: 11/Aug/20 14:16
• Resolved: 21/May/20 22:19

Description

Test Fineract with the latest version of MySQL v8 instead of the old MySQL 5 we currently seem to be mostly using.

Hopefully our use of the (very old...) Drizzle JDBC driver doesn't cause any issues for this; if it does, note FINERACT-762.

See also FINERACT-896.

Issue Links

• is related to: FINERACT-896 User MariaDB instead of / in addition to MySQL
• is related to: FINERACT-901 Add serverTimezone=UTC (via JDBC URL?)
• relates to: FINERACT-951 use Ubuntu Bionic instead of Trusty on Travis
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #780
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #857
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1012