Homebrew, MySQL 8 support

Question

Anyone have the inside scoop on when Homebrew will be updated to support MySQL 8's first general release (8.0.11)? I can't seem to find it by searching, but I bet someone here knows :)

Answer 1

Homebrew pushed MySQL 8.0.11 as an upgrade yesterday (Wed, 13 June 2018). I thought I had it pinned, but no such luck.

It's a total disaster:

MySQL 8.0.11 uses caching_sha2_password as the default authentication method (leave it to Oracle to do something like this in a point release, but there you have it).

So far, it breaks everything I've tried: phpMyAdmin, Nextcloud, and WordPress.

I'll be rolling back to 5.7.22 later today.

Update 17 June 2018 6:50PM CDT:

Three step solution:

1. Add to [mysqld] section of my.cnf file (found in /usr/local/etc/ for Homebrew's installation):

   default-authentication-plugin=mysql_native_password
   

2. At shell prompt:

   mysql -u root -p
   
   > ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost'
      IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password
      BY '[password]';
   
   > exit
   

3. Reboot server

   brew services restart mysql
   

Short version solution

Long version solution

Update 18 June 2018 11:53PM CDT:

The solution provided above is partial, at best. In my experience MySQL 8.0.11 is not nearly ready for production (or even development) use.