MySQL 8 provides support for IPv6, with the following capabilities:
- MySQL server will accept TCP/IP connections from clients with IPv6 connectivity
- MySQL 8 account names permit IPv6 addresses, which enables DBA to specify privileges for the clients that are connected with server, using IPv6
- The IPv6 functions enable conversions between string and internal IPv6 address formats, and checking whether the values represent a valid IPv6 address or not