Now you can see in line #1 that mysql has the latest version (April 2019) in brew stable 8.0.13. Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can just run:

To have launchd start mysql now and restart at login: MySQL is configured to only allow connections from localhost by default We've installed your MySQL database without a root password. Percona-server (because mysql, mariadb, and percona install the same binaries.) Mysql-connector-c (because both install MySQL client libraries) Mysql-cluster (because mysql, mariadb, and percona install the same binaries.) Mariadb-connector-c (because both install plugins) Mariadb (because mysql, mariadb, and percona install the same binaries.) Open source relational database management system You will get output in terminal like this: mysql: stable 8.0.13 (bottled) Check the latest available versionīefore executing install command, let’s check what is the latest (on the moment of command execution) MySQL version available: brew info mysql Install the latest available version 1.1.