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Google Data Studio will stop connecting to MySQL 5.6 and 5.7 after 26 February 2027

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After 26 February 2027, Data Studio (formerly Looker Studio) will not create new MySQL 5.6 or 5.7 data sources, and existing reports on them "might not properly load data". Upgrade to MySQL 8.0 or later.

About Google Data Studio will stop connecting to MySQL 5.6 and 5.7 after 26 February 2027

Google Data Studio will stop connecting to MySQL 5.6 and 5.7 after 26 February 2027

24 September 2026 — Google has announced the end of support for MySQL 5.6 and 5.7 in the MySQL connector of Data Studio, the free reporting tool formerly called Looker Studio. The release note is dated 24 September 2026, and the connector's documentation, updated the same day, now marks both versions as "sunsetting".

What changes

After 26 February 2027:

  • users can no longer create new Data Studio data sources that connect to MySQL 5.6 or 5.7;
  • existing data sources and reports on those versions "might not properly load data", in Google's words.

Google points users to MySQL 8.0 or 9.0. Both older versions are already past the end of Oracle's own support for MySQL, so the databases concerned are often ones that nobody has upgraded for years.

Who is affected

Any team whose Data Studio dashboards read directly from an older MySQL server. That commonly includes sales and marketing dashboards built on a website or e-commerce database, reports built by an agency, and reporting from older managed database instances in the cloud. The risk is quiet failure: a dashboard that stops loading, or loads incomplete figures, in a board meeting in March.

What to do

  • List the Data Studio data sources that use the MySQL connector, and check the server version behind each one.
  • For each on 5.6 or 5.7, either upgrade the database or point the report at a replica running 8.0 or later before 26 February 2027.
  • If an agency built your reporting, ask it to do the same check across the reports it maintains for you.
  • Treat an old MySQL version found this way as a security question too, not only a reporting one.

Not yet independently verified. This rests on Google’s own release note and connector documentation. No independent report of it was found, so every date here comes from the vendor's own page and is only as reliable as that page. We will update this when it can be confirmed, and remove this note.

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