Why we're ending support for MySQL in 12.1 GitLab will be ending support for MySQL starting with our 12.1 release – here's why. In July of 2017 GitLab documented that we would be deprecating support for MySQL. Well, the 12.1 release marks the conclusion of our deprecation period and it will no longer support MySQL. It wasn't an easy decision, but we wanted to share with you why we did it. It wasn'