I tried to install Joomla 5 on a live server (pLesk) and got the notification from Joomla Installer that I need to have MariaDB 10.4 or newer... my server has 10.3.
However, previously I installed Joomla 5 by using Joomla Toolkit (installed on pLesk) for a different website, which worked perfectly fine. Joomla 5 is installed and running.
Now Im concerned that maybe there will be some issues at some stage with the website because the J5 Installer says it Requires MariaDB 10.4 or newer.
Should I stop building this J5 website and start again with a J4 instead?
Thanks.
Below is the System Info from the Joomla 5 installation... as you can see, it's MariaDB 10.3:
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System Information
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php: Linux vps3.xxxxxxxxxxx.com.au 4.19.0-18-cloud-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.208-1 (2021-09-29) x86_64
dbserver: mysql
dbversion: 10.3.39-MariaDB-0+deb10u2
dbcollation: utf8_general_ci
dbconnectioncollation: utf8mb4_general_ci
dbconnectionencryption:
dbconnencryptsupported: false
phpversion: 8.2.18
server: Apache
sapi_name: cgi-fcgi
version: Joomla! 5.0.3 Stable [ Kuboresha ] 20-February-2024 16:00 GMT
compatpluginenabled: true
compatpluginparameters: classes_aliases:"1", es5_assets:"1"
useragent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:124.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/124.0
UPDATE
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I just tried to update the J5 installation, and sure enough, the MariaDB version check failed: