End of life, severity medium

MySQL 9.5 reached end of life on 2026-01-20

Published October 31, 2026

MySQL 9.5 no longer gets security fixes.

Deadline: January 20, 2026

What's affected

• mysql>=9.5 <9.6

What to do

1. Upgrade MySQL to a supported version (latest 9.5.x is 9.5.2; 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-9-5

References

• https://endoflife.date/mysql

Notice eol-mysql-9-5, signed with key feed-prod-2026-10 (Ed25519). The Pharon CLI verifies the signature before using a notice.