Not sure why youre worried about port 3306 being used for ssl and non-ssl connections.<BR><BR>An alternative would be to set up an encrypted tunnel on each client outside your network, but that ...

Oracle has introduced JavaScript support in the MySQL database, allowing developers to write JavaScript stored programs, i.e. JavaScript functions and procedures, in the MySQL database server.

MySQL is not the first open-source relational database supporting Javascript in stored routines, with PLV8 being the most popular Javascript language extension for PostgreSQL.

The vulnerability affects MySQL 5.7.2 and earlier versions, along with MySQL Connector versions 6.1.2 and earlier, all versions of Percona Server and all versions of MariaDB.

If a dependency on libssl appears, it has SSL support.<BR><BR>After that, you just need to generate a certificate on the server side and point MySQL to it.

Version 9.0 of MySQL comes with major new features: The innovation release offers JavaScript functions for SQL and a vector type for AI friends.