Description

WordPress 6.8 seems to introduce newer MySQL client tools that require SSL by default, causing the WPGraphQL Docker test environment to fail during database operations. The MariaDB container configuration doesn't seem to properly handle these SSL requirements, resulting in test failures across all PHP versions when testing with WordPress 6.8.

This is preventing the GitHub testing integration workflow from successfully running when using WordPress 6.8m and blocks local development testing with the latest WordPress version.

Steps to reproduce

This issue can be reproduced in the WPGraphQL repository itself when running the test suite with WordPress 6.8:

# Attempt to run tests with WordPress 6.8
PHP_VERSION=8.2 WP_VERSION=6.8 composer build-test
PHP_VERSION=8.2 WP_VERSION=6.8 composer run-test

Error Output

mariadb-dump: Got error: 2026: "TLS/SSL error: SSL is required, but the server does not support it" when trying to connect
Script bash bin/run-docker.sh run handling the docker-run event returned with error code 2

Additional context

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WPGraphQL Version

latest

WordPress Version

6.8

PHP Version

8.1, 8.2

Additional environment details

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Please confirm that you have searched existing issues in the repo.

• Yes

Please confirm that you have disabled ALL plugins except for WPGraphQL.

• Yes
• My issue is with compatibility with a specific WordPress plugin, and I have listed all my installed plugins (and version info) above.