Upgrade MAMP to Mysql 5.6

migrate.sh

#!/bin/sh

wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.6/mysql-5.6.24-osx10.9-x86_64.tar.gz
tar xfvz mysql-5.6*

echo "stopping mamp"
sudo /Applications/MAMP/bin/stop.sh
sudo killall httpd mysqld

echo "creating backup"
sudo rsync -a /Applications/MAMP ~/Desktop/MAMP-Backup

echo "copy bin"
sudo rsync -av mysql-5.6.*/bin/* /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/ --exclude=mysqld_multi --exclude=mysqld_safe 

echo "copy share"
sudo rsync -av mysql-5.6.*/share/* /Applications/MAMP/Library/share/

echo "fixing access (workaround)"
sudo chmod -R o+rw  /Applications/MAMP/db/mysql/ 
sudo chmod -R o+rw  /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/

echo "starting mamp"
sudo /Applications/MAMP/bin/start.sh

echo "migrate to new version"
/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql_upgrade -u root --password=root -h 127.0.0.1

I have mamp pro and I get the folowing error
httpd: Syntax error on line 132 of /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf: Cannot load /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.5/modules/libphp5.so into server: dlopen(/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.5/modules/libphp5.so, 10): image not found

The problem is that it's using the wrong php version, si if I fix it, it goes on, but then I find other set of errors ending with the problem with the tables, the root password etc...
Does any one have experienced this?

goliathuy, if you are still having the issue (and for anyone else) go to the /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf file and edit the line to point to the correct php version active:

EX:

LoadModule php5_module /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.7/modules/libphp5.so

I had to remove table_cache=64 from my.cnf.

Now mysql starts, but mamp does not recognize it? Why?

Thanks for this! Removing table_cache from my.cnf and adding the following to mysql_update was necessary in my case:

-S /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock

Got something in the MAMP/logs/mysql_error.log file along the lines of:

[Note] InnoDB: 5.6.24 started; log sequence number XXXXXXXX
[ERROR] /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqld: unknown variable 'table_cache=64'
ERROR] Aborting

Try:

1. Start MAMP PRO.
2. Stop the MAMP Server if it is running.
3. Select File -> Edit Template -> MySQL my.cnf
4. goto table_cache=64
5. Comment it out: #table_cache=64
6. Close & save at the prompt
7. Restart MAMP

Me too I have this error
Looking for 'mysql' as: /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql
Looking for 'mysqlcheck' as: /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqlcheck
FATAL ERROR: Upgrade failed

@BrownSim Try removing the -h 127.0.0.1 from the last line in the gist. It was added because someone else reported a similar problem without it, but I had the problem that you're having with it.

Thank you!
I had to replace wget for curl and add a chmod but it in the end it worked.

#!/bin/sh

curl -O http://cdn.mysql.com//Downloads/MySQL-5.6/mysql-5.6.24-osx10.9-x86_64.tar.gz
tar xfvz mysql-5.6*

echo "stopping mamp"
sudo /Applications/MAMP/bin/stop.sh
sudo killall httpd mysqld

echo "creating backup"
sudo rsync -a /Applications/MAMP ~/Desktop/MAMP-Backup

echo "copy bin"
sudo rsync -av mysql-5.6.*/bin/* /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/ --exclude=mysqld_multi --exclude=mysqld_safe 

echo "copy share"
sudo rsync -av mysql-5.6.*/share/* /Applications/MAMP/Library/share/

echo "fixing access (workaround)"
sudo chmod -R o+rw  /Applications/MAMP/db/mysql/ 
sudo chmod -R o+rw  /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/

echo "starting mamp"
sudo /Applications/MAMP/bin/start.sh

echo "migrate to new version"
sudo chmod -R 777 /Applications/MAMP/db/mysql/
/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql_upgrade --user=root --password=root --host=127.0.0.1 --port=3306

Also, if you have issues on Mac OS X Yosimite 10.10.4 with MAMP rebooting until you:
$ ln -s /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock /tmp/mysql.sock
You can:
crontab -e
@reboot ln -s /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock /tmp/mysql.sock

It works for me with " -h localhost " in last line.

Thanks!

awesome script.
ln -s /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock /tmp/mysql.sock was the missing step for me.

If you are getting (errno: 13 - Permission denied) error. Run below

sudo chown -R mysql:mysql  /Applications/MAMP/db/mysql/
sudo chown -R mysql:mysql  /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/

Check this link: http://blog-en.mamp.info/2015/07/how-to-use-mysql-5-6-with-mamp-and-mamp.html

You could update your script to get the latest version of MySQL (5.7.10)

wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.7/mysql-5.7.10-osx10.10-x86_64.tar.gz

It's not working at all.

Looking for 'mysql' as: /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql
Looking for 'mysqlcheck' as: /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqlcheck
FATAL ERROR: Upgrade failed

Is this only working with MAMP Pro?

Update: I stand corrected
It is indeed working. But:
run ln -s /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock /tmp/mysql.sock before doing anything else.
I had to manually execute each statement in the script one after another.
Don't execute the last one. Instead in MAMP: Tools>Upgrade MySQL Databases.

I got here because I wanted the combination of MAMP simplicity (including the choice between latest PHP5.x and PHP7), but with MySQL >= 5.6.5 (so I can set default values for created_at and updated_at).

Ultimately I successfully used daancart2quote's version above, with three changes:

1. I manually (from UI) downloaded the 5.7.12 version from the website,
2. I changes the various 5.6* in subsequent steps to 5.7*,
3. I allowed MAMP to do the upgrade (Tools -> Upgrade Databases), from the MAMP UI (you will need to do "sudo chmod -R 777 /Applications/MAMP/db/mysql/" yourself).

Hopefully this is helpful to others.

If you encounter during the mysql_upgrade step the following error:

(errno: 13 - Permission denied)

You can fix this by changing the ownership of the mysql directory:

sudo chown -R _mysql:_mysql /Applications/MAMP/db/mysql

Is there anything similar for the windows version of MAMP?

Have to create a soft link or change it in my.cnf, otherwise MAMP cannot start or stop mysql properly.
ln -s /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock /tmp/mysql.sock

After running this script, I can't launch mamp anymore.

This is error message:

This is error log:
161218 9:39:38 [Warning] Setting lower_case_table_names=2 because file system for /Library/Application Support/appsolute/MAMP PRO/db/mysql/ is case insensitive
161218 9:39:38 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
161218 9:39:39 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
161218 9:39:39 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
161218 9:39:39 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
161218 9:39:39 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
161218 9:39:39 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
InnoDB: Error: checksum mismatch in data file ./ibdata1
161218 9:39:39 InnoDB: Could not open or create data files.
161218 9:39:39 InnoDB: If you tried to add new data files, and it failed here,
161218 9:39:39 InnoDB: you should now edit innodb_data_file_path in my.cnf back
161218 9:39:39 InnoDB: to what it was, and remove the new ibdata files InnoDB created
161218 9:39:39 InnoDB: in this failed attempt. InnoDB only wrote those files full of
161218 9:39:39 InnoDB: zeros, but did not yet use them in any way. But be careful: do not
161218 9:39:39 InnoDB: remove old data files which contain your precious data!
161218 9:39:39 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
161218 9:39:39 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
161218 9:39:39 [ERROR] Unknown/unsupported storage engine: InnoDB
161218 9:39:39 [ERROR] Aborting

161218 9:39:39 [Note] /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqld: Shutdown complete

161218 09:39:39 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.pid ended
161218 09:43:17 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /Library/Application Support/appsolute/MAMP PRO/db/mysql
161218 9:43:17 [Warning] Setting lower_case_table_names=2 because file system for /Library/Application Support/appsolute/MAMP PRO/db/mysql/ is case insensitive
161218 9:43:17 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
161218 9:43:17 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
161218 9:43:17 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
161218 9:43:17 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
161218 9:43:17 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
161218 9:43:17 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
InnoDB: Error: checksum mismatch in data file ./ibdata1
161218 9:43:17 InnoDB: Could not open or create data files.
161218 9:43:17 InnoDB: If you tried to add new data files, and it failed here,
161218 9:43:17 InnoDB: you should now edit innodb_data_file_path in my.cnf back
161218 9:43:17 InnoDB: to what it was, and remove the new ibdata files InnoDB created
161218 9:43:17 InnoDB: in this failed attempt. InnoDB only wrote those files full of
161218 9:43:17 InnoDB: zeros, but did not yet use them in any way. But be careful: do not
161218 9:43:17 InnoDB: remove old data files which contain your precious data!
161218 9:43:17 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
161218 9:43:17 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
161218 9:43:17 [ERROR] Unknown/unsupported storage engine: InnoDB
161218 9:43:17 [ERROR] Aborting

161218 9:43:17 [Note] /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqld: Shutdown complete

161218 09:43:17 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.pid ended

any idea how to fix?
Thanks

+1 on getting this to run in windows, especially since mamp 4 isn't available for windows yet.