diff --git a/DEPENDENCIES.md b/DEPENDENCIES.md
index 197af984701d8c522c9e419f27c32c0104501cfe..c509b7544bbb0f40b0da937e62be0e48f5ba217f 100644
--- a/DEPENDENCIES.md
+++ b/DEPENDENCIES.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 ## For Building and Running the Server
 
 * `>=caosdb-proto 0.3.0`
-* `>=caosdb-mysqlbackend 7.0.0`
+* `>=caosdb-mysqlbackend 8.0.0`
 * `>=Java 11`
 * `>=Apache Maven 3.6.0`
 * `>=Make 4.2`
diff --git a/conf/core/server.conf b/conf/core/server.conf
index 70648545f2ee8228befb560134e0e0a8530cb208..d2b77af9148893ee4f04b81fc964d255fd168cba 100644
--- a/conf/core/server.conf
+++ b/conf/core/server.conf
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ MYSQL_USER_NAME=caosdb
 # Password for the user
 MYSQL_USER_PASSWORD=random1234
 # Schema of mysql procedures and tables which is required by this CaosDB instance
-MYSQL_SCHEMA_VERSION=v7.0
+MYSQL_SCHEMA_VERSION=v8.0
 
 
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