diff --git a/.github/workflows/backend.yml b/.github/workflows/backend.yml
index 4bd5c0ec3..94405324c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/backend.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/backend.yml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ jobs:
 
     services:
       mysql:
-        image: mariadb:11.7
+        image: mariadb:12.3
         options: --health-cmd "mariadb-admin ping -h localhost" --health-interval 20s --health-timeout 10s --health-retries 10
         env:
           MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: password
diff --git a/compose.yaml b/compose.yaml
index 9a6a9561e..2f636572f 100644
--- a/compose.yaml
+++ b/compose.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 services:
   mysql:
-    image: mariadb:11.7
+    image: mariadb:12.3
     command: mariadbd --character-set-server=utf8mb4 --collation-server=utf8mb4_unicode_ci
     ports:
       - "3306:3306"