From 1626fcefab693c53859dd039f84ca791b7f25413 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Timm Fitschen <t.fitschen@indiscale.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 20:12:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] MAINT: deprecate MySQL support.

---
 CHANGELOG.md    | 2 ++
 README_SETUP.md | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index de74792..7b55ee1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Deprecated ###
 
+* MySQL Support. Last version which is known to work well with LinkAhead is MySQL 5.6
+
 ### Removed ###
 
 ### Fixed ###
diff --git a/README_SETUP.md b/README_SETUP.md
index 1b88d56..52ee110 100644
--- a/README_SETUP.md
+++ b/README_SETUP.md
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 # Setup of the CaosDB SQL back end
 
 ## Dependencies
-* `MariaDB Client 10.1`, `MySQL Client 5.5`, or later versions.  In the case of
-  MySQL, version 5.6 is recommended.
-- make
+
+* `MariaDB Client 10.1` or later, `MySQL Client >=5.5, <=5.6`.
+* make
 
 ## Create the configuration
 * Create an empty `.config` file. For the default values and the meaning of
-- 
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