diff --git a/doc/rst/database.rst b/doc/rst/database.rst
index 5dc165fe..32fade64 100644
--- a/doc/rst/database.rst
+++ b/doc/rst/database.rst
@@ -80,9 +80,10 @@ Also the environment variable XCA_<driver-name>_OPTIONS may be used to set the o
 
 The file must contain the options as ; separated key=value pairs. The recognized options depend
 on the database driver. See:
-https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-PARAMKEYWORDS for PostgreSQL and
-https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/sql-driver.html#connection-options for MySQL and
-https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/sql-driver.html#odbc-unicode-support for ODBC.
+
+ - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-PARAMKEYWORDS for PostgreSQL and
+ - https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/sql-driver.html#connection-options for MySQL and
+ - https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/sql-driver.html#odbc-unicode-support for ODBC.
 
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diff --git a/misc/qsqlmysql.patch b/misc/qsqlmysql.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..abc99cc3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/misc/qsqlmysql.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+diff --git a/qtbase/src/plugins/sqldrivers/mysql/CMakeLists.txt b/qtbase/src/plugins/sqldrivers/mysql/CMakeLists.txt
+index fb28abd9..d7a3f2da 100644
+--- a/qtbase/src/plugins/sqldrivers/mysql/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/qtbase/src/plugins/sqldrivers/mysql/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -21,4 +21,3 @@ qt_internal_add_plugin(QMYSQLDriverPlugin
+         Qt::SqlPrivate
+ )
+ 
+-qt_internal_force_macos_intel_arch(QMYSQLDriverPlugin)
+diff --git a/qtbase/src/plugins/sqldrivers/mysql/qsql_mysql.cpp b/qtbase/src/plugins/sqldrivers/mysql/qsql_mysql.cpp
+index 3525c257..84081b22 100644
+--- a/qtbase/src/plugins/sqldrivers/mysql/qsql_mysql.cpp
++++ b/qtbase/src/plugins/sqldrivers/mysql/qsql_mysql.cpp
+@@ -1288,6 +1288,12 @@ bool QMYSQLDriver::open(const QString &db,
+ #endif
+ #if defined(MYSQL_VERSION_ID) && MYSQL_VERSION_ID >= 50711 && !defined(MARIADB_VERSION_ID)
+         {"MYSQL_OPT_SSL_MODE"_L1,        MYSQL_OPT_SSL_MODE,        setOptionSslMode},
++#endif
++#if defined(MARIADB_VERSION_ID)
++        {"MYSQL_OPT_SSL_ENFORCE"_L1,     MYSQL_OPT_SSL_ENFORCE,     setOptionBool},
++        {"MYSQL_OPT_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT"_L1, MYSQL_OPT_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT,     setOptionBool},
++        {"MARIADB_OPT_TLS_PEER_FP"_L1,   MARIADB_OPT_TLS_PEER_FP,     setOptionString},
++        {"MARIADB_OPT_TLS_PEER_FP_LIST"_L1,     MARIADB_OPT_TLS_PEER_FP_LIST,     setOptionString},
+ #endif
+         {"MYSQL_OPT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT"_L1, MYSQL_OPT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT, setOptionInt},
+         {"MYSQL_OPT_READ_TIMEOUT"_L1,    MYSQL_OPT_READ_TIMEOUT,    setOptionInt},
diff --git a/release/build-mac.sh b/release/build-mac.sh
index 2ee2b241..d790d1b0 100755
--- a/release/build-mac.sh
+++ b/release/build-mac.sh
@@ -125,8 +125,7 @@ do_openssl
 #do_zstd
 #do_mariadb_connector_c
 # aqt install-src mac 6.6.3 --archives qtbase
-# qtbase/src/plugins/sqldrivers/mysql/CMakeLists.txt:
-#    -qt_internal_force_macos_intel_arch(QMYSQLDriverPlugin)
+# patch -p1 < $XCA_DIR/misc/qsqlmysql.patch
 do_qsqlmysql
 
 cmake -B "$BUILDDIR" "$XCA_DIR" \