# Ghost 0.5.5 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Ghost (https://ghost.org)
- **Version:** 0.5.5
- **Released:** Nov 19, 2014
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/ghost/updates/0.5.5/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ghost 0.5.5. Source highlight: Ghost 0.5.5 is a minor update to 0.5.4 which resolves an issue with character encoding for MySQL databases. If you're using MySQL and have upgraded to 0.5.4, please upgrade to 0.5.5. The extra fix can be found here.