I've been using this plugin for many years now at my website. But Wordpress 6.5 came out a few days ago and started giving me this new error which I've never seen before.

I decided to set up a separate instance locally with a blank Wordpress site after adding the db.php file. The initial questions go through, but after asking all the questions when I click on 'Install Wordpress' I get this error -

Error: WordPress 6.5 requires MySQL 5.5.5 or higher

Any suggestions would help