diff --git a/Puppetfile b/Puppetfile
index 913b8bcd0..6390fb4ac 100644
--- a/Puppetfile
+++ b/Puppetfile
@@ -160,8 +160,7 @@ mod 'mongodb',
 
 mod 'mysql',
   :git => 'https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-mysql',
-  # until we got a release on puppetlabs-mysql
-  :ref => '5695cef4a66364d34ede90a08fe07e4b277ff8ba'
+  :ref => '3.8.0'
 
 mod 'postgresql',
   :git => 'https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-postgresql',
diff --git a/external_modules.txt b/external_modules.txt
index 3e234c017..81f58ab1d 100644
--- a/external_modules.txt
+++ b/external_modules.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ puppetlabs/puppetlabs-concat
 puppetlabs/puppetlabs-firewall
 puppetlabs/puppetlabs-inifile
 puppetlabs/puppetlabs-mongodb
-puppetlabs/puppetlabs-mysql,5695cef4a66364d34ede90a08fe07e4b277ff8ba
+puppetlabs/puppetlabs-mysql
 puppetlabs/puppetlabs-postgresql
 puppetlabs/puppetlabs-rabbitmq
 puppetlabs/puppetlabs-rsync