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In-place Downgrades

For downgrades between the GA status releases within MySQL 8.0 (note that you cannot downgrade to MySQL 5.7 using this method):

Shut down the old MySQL version
Replace the MySQL 8.0 binaries or older binaries
Restart MySQL on the existing data directory
Run the mysql_upgrade utility

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