I’ve downloaded the MySQL connector 4 java 8.0.21, but i’ve other pc with mysql 5.7.39 (this pc isn’t comaptible with higher versions of MySQL) and i don’t want download the right jdbc for my mysql version, these are the reasin beacuse i’m asking about the backwards compatibility of the MySQL connecto jdbc.
is the MySQL connector 8.0.21 compatible with MySQL 5.7.39?

I am making a Object Detection app which uses YOLOv8 for Detection and Java for the GUI. This is being made as a college project and I was just told that I need to add a database into it but due to not much experience in Back-end I can’t successfully do that.