This resolves #529 by switching the default MySQL driver we use for Knex to talk to our database from mysql to mysql2, which supports the newer authentication mechanism used in MySQL 8.0 and above.
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This resolves #529 by switching the default MySQL driver we use for Knex to talk to our database from mysql to mysql2, which supports the newer authentication mechanism used in MySQL 8.0 and above.
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