Do you support MYSQL V8?
My system was upgraded to Ubuntu 19.10 and the MySQL instance no longer works with Jira. I have dropped and recreated a clean database with the command:
create database jiradb character set utf8 collate utf8_bin;
I confirmed that I can connect with: mysql -u jira -p jiradb
I have upgraded the SQL Connector to mysql-connector-java-5.1.48.
When I try to start JIRA I get
This MySQL instance is not properly configured. Please follow the documentation for MySQL 5.7+ setup.