diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 034e29f9..ca9d43b4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ This project is made of two components:
 |----------------------------------------------|--------------------:|
 | Java                                         |                  17 |
 | Maven                                        |                 3.9 |
-| MySQL                                        |                 8.3 |
+| MySQL                                        |                 9.0 |
 | Flyway                                       |               10.13 |
 | [cloc](https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc)[^1] |                2.00 |
 | Git[^1]                                      |                2.43 |
diff --git a/docker-compose/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose/docker-compose.yml
index dcecec95..339b726e 100644
--- a/docker-compose/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose/docker-compose.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name: "gse"
 
 services:
   gse-database:
-    image: mysql:8.3.0
+    image: mysql:9.0.1
     container_name: gse-database
     restart: "always"
     volumes:
diff --git a/docker/database/Dockerfile b/docker/database/Dockerfile
index 89288b79..0bf6df87 100644
--- a/docker/database/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/database/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM mysql:8.3.0
+FROM mysql:9.0.1
 LABEL maintainer="Ozren Dabić (dabico@usi.ch)"
 
 WORKDIR /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4c67e4c9..50268abf 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
 		<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
 		<java.release>17</java.release>
 		<java.version>1.${java.release}</java.version>
-		<mysql.version>8.3.0</mysql.version>
+		<mysql.version>9.0.0</mysql.version>
 		<guava.version>33.3.0-jre</guava.version>
 		<jackson.version>2.17.2</jackson.version>
 		<okhttp.version>4.12.0</okhttp.version>