Topic on Manual talk:Upgrading

I'm running `php maintenance/run.php update.php`

This is kind of a ridiculous message to get. Is there a way to proceed with the upgrade to 1.41.0?

That's indeed a bogus message. I'd recommend to Bugreport it.

Try using a newer mysql version.

We're running ProxySQL, which reports just "5.7". I edited a couple files to say "5.7." instead of "5.7.0" and the update ran without a hitch.