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Hi, sorry this might not be a valid feature request. I've ran out of ideas to try and nowhere else answers me . I need to use mysql 5.1 and I tried debezium mysql connector, version 2.6 and 2.0. I also tried debezium-server 2.6.0.Final and a bunch of other versions but in all cases dez cannot connect to the db and it gave me error "CLIENT_PLUGIN_AUTH is required". I don't understand dez codebase that much and I know from the documentation that all stable versions are not tested on mysql 5.1. I guess the error is because the driver shipped with the connector is not compatible with mysql 5.1.

I tried including mysql 5.1 driver downloaded from the archive like below but it complains class not found and dez doesnt even start. 

    volumes:
      - $PWD/debezium-server/conf:/debezium/conf
      - $PWD/debezium-server/data:/debezium/data
      - $PWD/debezium-server/lib/mysql-connector-java-5.1.40-bin.jar:/debezium/lib/mysql-connector-java-5.1.40-bin.jar # try this which gives "class not found" error
    

Im wondering if I somehow can include mysql 5.1 driver somewhere to make debezium work for  mysql 5.1? Or trying debezium with mysql 5.1 is a dead end? 

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Able to include mysql 5.1 driver somewhere for debezium to connect to this dinosaur db version.