diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 6f4a0de..8168eee 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 The Cacti Group | spine
 
 1.2.6
+-issue#101: MySQL 8 has retired 'my_bool' type
 -issue#104: Spine should report which threads are outstanding
 -issue#105: Spine should include 'Process[<id>]' in standard logging
 -issue#107: Log Buffer is too small to handle some output
diff --git a/sql.c b/sql.c
index d6e3844..2738077 100644
--- a/sql.c
+++ b/sql.c
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ void db_connect(int type, MYSQL *mysql) {
 	timeout = 5;
 	rtimeout = 10;
 	wtimeout = 20;
-	my_bool reconnect = 1;
+	_Bool reconnect = 1;
 
 	mysql_init(mysql);