When the MySQL version from your distribution isn't good enough you need to download the latest Oracle MySQL. There are more possibilities like Percona Server and MariaDB, but that's not what this post is about. The dowload site for MySQL is https://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ and contains to a mirror.php script which ask you if you like to login with a Oracle Web Account and then chooses a mirror for you. You don't have to login. Then you will be redirected to the chosen mirror. In my case this is https://cdn.mysql.com Firefox will give you a "This Connection is Untrusted" dialog. If you click on "Technical details" it will show the following error: cdn.mysql.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names:   a248.e.akamai.net , *.akamaihd.net , *.akamaihd-staging.net  (Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain) The Qualys SSL Labs confirm the mismatch between the site name and the certificate...