Security issues aside, (which I’m sure given its age, there probably are some others by now), the MariaDB/MySQL server plugin is in need of an update. While I can’t speak on behalf of every potential issue, one that is causing me serious concerns right now is the fact that caching_sha2_password isn’t supported on it, (which has been out for quite some time and is now becoming the defacto encryption method in MySQL 8+, and is also now supported by MariaDB). This in itself presents a security concern on a very common, modern MySQL-based server setup because the plugin hasn’t been updated to support this and other methods. Because of this, users utilizing a MySQL 8+ server for their TeamSpeak 3(/5) server, (which again, is relatively common), forces them to use the old mysql_native_password encryption method that MySQL itself is planning to remove, and no longer defaults to for security reasons.
All this being said, is there any chance of us receiving an update to this, (and possibly the other), database plugins? I’m obviously not a TeamSpeak developer, but I’m assuming they likely have repositories for these plugins still saved, so it should just be a matter of updating their dependencies and making minor tweaks to the code to make them compatible. Doing so would be greatly appreciated, and would go a long way toward the safety and stability of TeamSpeak’s future for those that do not wish to host their server databases on the same system as the server files. It would also future-proof the plugins so that MySQL server support is not lost in the near future when the mysql_native_password encryption is completely removed.
(And before anyone says it, no, I don’t want to use Sqlite locally, nor other database server software, and I’m not willing to switch solely to MariaDB for one database configuration, nor waste resources dual-hosting for something that is technically already compatible with both MariaDB and MySQL. I also shouldn’t need to because of the lack of a simple plugin update, so I just want to ward off those arguments now.)
Edit: MySQL 9.0.1 is now out, and mysql_native_password has been officially removed as part of this, furthering the need for TeamSpeak to update the plugin for continued compatibility.
