MySQL 8.0.4 : New Default Authentication Plugin : caching_sha2_password

(Harin Vadodaria) Starting with MySQL 8.0.4, we are changing the default authentication plugin for MySQL server from mysql_native_password to caching_sha2_password. Correspondingly, libmysqlclient will now use caching_sha2_password as the default authentication mechanism, too.

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