As of April, MySQL offers a new LTS version: 9.7. See also https://blogs.oracle.com/mysql/mysql-9-7-0-lts-is-now-available-expanded-community-capabilities-and-dynamic-data-masking-for-enterprise.

This release comes with various enhancements and benefits as listed on the blog. Therefore, it would be nice to allow managed database creation of and upgrading to the new LTS.

(Follow-up on https://ideas.digitalocean.com/managed-database/p/allow-creating-upgrading-databases-to-mysql-v84-latest-lts, which should now be completed)