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Never used Herd, but accordingly to the documentation https://herd.laravel.com/docs/1/herd-pro-services/service-versions
but you can always install very specific versions by downloading them from their vendor or by using Brew or Docker.
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Laravel Herd comes with MySQL 8.0.36 by default, but is it also possible to run it on MySQL 5.7?
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