Rethinking Result Sets in Connector/Node.js

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It used to be the case where, in order to actually process data retrieved from the database using Connector/Node.js, you would have to resort to an API that required the use of both JavaScript callbacks and Promises. This was meant to provide more flexibility and control to the application developer and at the same time decrease the chance of buffering data unnecessarily. However this wasn’t useful for 99% of the use-cases and made simple tasks a little bit cumbersome. Also, the fact that it required using two different asynchronous constructs made it a little bit harder to grasp.

To make matters worse, in order to consume operational metadata about the columns in the result set, you would have to provide an additional callback, making the whole thing spiral a bit out of control, particularly when there were multiple result sets involved. In that case, you needed to create a shared context between the two functions in order to map data and metadata for each column in each result set.

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MySQL Connector/C++ 8.0.19 has been released

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Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/C++ 8.0.19 is a new release version of the MySQL
Connector/C++ 8.0 series.

Connector/C++ 8.0 can be used to access MySQL implementing Document
Store or in a traditional way, using SQL queries. It allows writing
both C++ and plain C applications using X DevAPI and X DevAPI for C.
It also supports the legacy API of Connector/C++ 1.1 based on JDBC4.

To learn more about how to write applications using X DevAPI, see
“X DevAPI User Guide” at

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/

See also “X DevAPI Reference” at

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-cpp/devapi_ref.html

and “X DevAPI for C Reference” at

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-cpp/xapi_ref.html

For generic information on using Connector/C++ 8.0, see

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-cpp/

For general documentation about how to get started using MySQL
as a document store, see

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/document-store.html

To download MySQL Connector/C++ 8.0.19, see the “General Availability (GA)
Releases” tab at

https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/cpp/


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Changes in MySQL Connector/C++ 8.0.19 (2020-01-13, General Availability)

* Error Handling

* Legacy (JDBC API) Notes

* Packaging Notes

* X DevAPI Notes

* Functionality Added or Changed

* Bugs Fixed

Error Handling

* If an application tries to obtain a result set from a statement that does not produce one, an exception occurs. For applications that do not catch such exceptions, Connector/C++ now produces a more informative error message to indicate why the exception occurred. (Bug #28591814, Bug #92263)

Legacy (JDBC API) Notes

* For applications that use the legacy JDBC API (that is, not made using X DevAPI or X DevAPI for C), it is now possible when creating a new session to specify multiple hosts to be tried until a successful connection is established. A list of hosts can be given in the session creation options. The new OPT_MULTI_HOST option is disabled by default for backward compatibility, but if enabled in the ConnectionOptionsMap parameter passed to connect() calls, it permits other map parameters to specify multiple hosts. Examples:

sql::ConnectOptionsMap opts;
opts[“hostName”]=”host1,host2:13001,localhost:13000″;
opts[“schema”]=”test”; opts[“OPT_MULTI_HOST”] = true;
opts[“userName”]=”user”; opts[“password”]=”password”;
driver->connect(opts);

sql::ConnectOptionsMap opts; opts[“hostName”]=”tcp://host1,host2:13001,localhost:13000/test”; opts[“OPT_MULTI_HOST”] = true;
opts[“userName”]=”user”; opts[“password”]=”password”;
driver->connect(opts);

sql::ConnectOptionsMap opts; opts[“hostName”]=”mysql://host1,host2:13001,localhost:13000/test”; opts[“OPT_MULTI_HOST”] = true;
opts[“userName”]=”user”;
opts[“password”]=”password”;
driver->connect(opts);

Port values are host specific. If a host is specified without a port number, the default port is used. These rules apply:

+ If OPT_MULTI_HOST is disabled and multiple hosts are specified, an error occurs.

+ If OPT_MULTI_HOST is disabled and a single host that resolves to multiple hosts is specified, the first host is used for backward compatibility.

+ If OPT_MULTI_HOST is enabled and multiple hosts are specified, one of them is randomly chosen as the connection target. If the target fails, another host is randomly chosen from those that remain. If all targets fail, an error occurs.

+ The hostName parameter can accept a URI that contains a list of comma-separated hosts. The URI scheme can be mysql://, which works like tcp://. The URI scheme can also be omitted, so the parameter can be a list of comma-separated hosts.

+ The connect() syntax that takes URI, user, and password parameters does not permit multiple hosts because in that case OPT_MULTI_HOST is disabled.

Packaging Notes

* Connector/C++ now is compatible with MSVC 2019, while retaining compatibility with MSVC 2017:

+ Previously, Connector/C++ binary distributions were compatible with projects built using MSVC 2017 or 2015. Binary distributions now are compatible with projects built using MSVC 2019 (using either dynamic or static connector libraries) or MSVC 2017 (using dynamic connector libraries). Building using MSVC 2015 might work, but is not supported.

+ Previously, Connector/C++ source distributions could be built using MSVC 2017 or 2015. Source distributions now can be built using MSVC 2019 or 2017. Building using MSVC 2015 might work, but is not supported.

+ Previously, the MSI installer accepted the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017 or 2015. The MSI installer now accepts the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2019 or 2017.

X DevAPI Notes

* For applications that use X DevAPI or X DevAPI for C, Connector/C++ now provides options that enable specifying the permitted TLS protocols and ciphersuites for TLS connection negotiation:

+ TLS protocols must be chosen from this list: TLSv1, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2, TLSv1.3. (TLSv1.3 requires that both the server and Connector/C++ be compiled with OpenSSL 1.1.1 or higher.)

+ Ciphersuite values must be IANA ciphersuite names. TLS protocols and ciphersuites now may be specified in these contexts:

+ Connection strings permit tls-versions and tls-ciphersuites options. The tls-versions value is a list of one or more comma-separated TLS protocol versions. The tls-ciphersuites value is a list of one or more comma-separated ciphersuite names. Examples:
…?tls-versions=[TLSv1.3]&…
…?tls-versions=[TLSv1.2,TLSv1.3]&…
…?tls-ciphersuites=[
TLS_DHE_PSK_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256
]&…

+ SessionSettings objects permit TLS_VERSIONS and TLS_CIPHERSUITES options. Each value is either a string containing one or more comma-separated items or a container with strings (that is, any type that can be iterated with a loop that yields string values).
Example of single string values:
Session s(…,
TLS_VERSIONS, “TLSv1.2,TLSv1.3”,
TLS_CIPHERSUITES, “TLS_DHE_PSK_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256” ,
…);
Example of string container values:
std::list<std::string> tls_versions = {
“TLSv1.2”,
“TLSv1.3”
};

std::list<std::string> ciphers = {
“TLS_DHE_PSK_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256”, “TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256”
};

Session s(…,
TLS_VERSIONS, tls_versions
TLS_CIPHERSUITES, ciphers,
…);

Session s(…,
TLS_VERSIONS, std::vector{“TLSv1.2″,”TLSv1.3”},
TLS_CIPHERSUITES, std::vector{“TLS_DHE_PSK_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256”, “TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256”},
…);

+ mysqlx_session_option_set() and friends permit MYSQLX_OPT_TLS_VERSIONS and MYSQLX_OPT_TLS_CIPHERSUITES session option constants, together with the corresponding OPT_TLS_VERSIONS() and OPT_TLS_CIPHERSUITES() macros. MYSQLX_OPT_TLS_VERSIONS and MYSQLX_OPT_TLS_CIPHERSUITES accept a string containing one or more comma-separated items. Examples:
mysqlx_session_option_set(opts, …,
OPT_TLS_VERSIONS(“TLSv1.2,TLSv1.3”),
OPT_TLS_CIPHERSUITES( “TLS_DHE_PSK_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256”
),
…)

For more information about TLS protocols and ciphersuites in MySQL, see Encrypted Connection TLS Protocols and Ciphers (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/encrypted-connection-protocols-ciphers.html). (Bug #28964583, Bug #93299)

* For X DevAPI or X DevAPI for C, when creating a new connection (given by a connection string or other means), if the connection data contains several target hosts that have no explicit priority assigned, the behavior of the failover logic now is the same as if all those target hosts have the same priority. That is, the next candidate for making a connection is chosen randomly from the remaining available hosts. This is a change from previous behavior, where hosts with no explicit priority were assigned implicit decreasing priorities and tried in the same order as listed in the connection data.

Functionality Added or Changed

* Connector/C++ now supports the use of DNS SRV records to specify multiple hosts:

+ Session and session-pool creation accepts a URI scheme of mysqlx+srv:// that enables the DNS SRV feature in connect strings. Example: mysqlx+srv://example.com/db?options

+ For X DevAPI, mysqlx::Session objects permit a SessionOption::DNS_SRV entry to enable use of a DNS SRV record to specify available services. Example:
mysqlx::Session sess(
SessionOption::HOST, “example.com”,
SessionOption::DNS_SRV, true,
SessionOption::USER, “user”,
SessionOption::PWD, “password”);

Similarly, for X DevAPI for C, the mysqlx_session_option_set() function permits an OPT_DNS_SRV() option in the argument list. Example: mysqlx_session_option_set(opt,
OPT_HOST(“example.com”),
OPT_DNS_SRV(true)
OPT_USER(“user”),
OPT_PWD(“password”),
PARAM_END));

+ For applications that use the legacy JDBC API (that is, not made using X DevAPI or X DevAPI for C), connection maps permit an OPT_DNS_SRV element. A map should specify the host for SRV lookup as a full lookup name and without a port. Example:
sql::ConnectOptionsMap opts;
opts[“hostName”] = “_mysql._tcp.host1.example.com”;
opts[“OPT_DNS_SRV”] = true;
opts[“userName”] = “user”;
opts[“password”] = “password”;
driver->connect(opts);

In legacy applications, DNS SRV resolution cannot be enabled in URI connect strings because parameters are not supported in such strings.

Bugs Fixed

* Connector/C++ failed to compile using Clang on Linux. (Bug #30450484)

* Connector/C++ set the transaction isolation level to REPEATABLE READ at connect time, regardless of the current server setting. (Bug #22038313, Bug #78852, Bug #30294415)

On Behalf of MySQL Release Engineering Team,
Surabhi Bhat

MySQL Shell 8.0.19 for MySQL Server 8.0 and 5.7 has been released

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Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Shell 8.0.19 is a maintenance release of MySQL Shell 8.0 Series (a
component of the MySQL Server). The MySQL Shell is provided under
Oracle’s dual-license.

MySQL Shell 8.0 is highly recommended for use with MySQL Server 8.0 and
5.7. Please upgrade to MySQL Shell 8.0.19.

MySQL Shell is an interactive JavaScript, Python and SQL console
interface, supporting development and administration for the MySQL
Server. It provides APIs implemented in JavaScript and Python that
enable you to work with MySQL InnoDB cluster and use MySQL as a document
store.

The AdminAPI enables you to work with MySQL InnoDB cluster, providing an
integrated solution for high availability and scalability using InnoDB
based MySQL databases, without requiring advanced MySQL expertise. For
more information about how to configure and work with MySQL InnoDB
cluster see

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/mysql-innodb-cluster-userguide.html

The X DevAPI enables you to create “schema-less” JSON document
collections and perform Create, Update, Read, Delete (CRUD) operations
on those collections from your favorite scripting language.  For more
information about how to use MySQL Shell and the MySQL Document Store
support see

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/document-store.html

For more information about the X DevAPI see

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/

If you want to write applications that use the the CRUD based X DevAPI
you can also use the latest MySQL Connectors for your language of
choice. For more information about Connectors see

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/index-connectors.html

For more information on the APIs provided with MySQL Shell see

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/mysqlsh-api-javascript/8.0/

and

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/mysqlsh-api-python/8.0/

Using MySQL Shell’s SQL mode you can communicate with servers using the
legacy MySQL protocol. Additionally, MySQL Shell provides partial
compatibility with the mysql client by supporting many of the same
command line options.

For full documentation on MySQL Server, MySQL Shell and related topics,
see

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-shell/8.0/en/

For more information about how to download MySQL Shell 8.0.19, see the
“General Availability (GA) Releases” tab at

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/shell/

We welcome and appreciate your feedback and bug reports, see

http://bugs.mysql.com/

Enjoy and thanks for the support!




Changes in MySQL Shell 8.0.19 (2020-01-13, General Availability)

InnoDB Cluster Added or Changed Functionality


     * Incompatible Change: The AdminAPI now includes InnoDB
       ReplicaSets, that enables you to administer asynchronous
       replication set ups in a similar way to InnoDB cluster.
       The addition of InnoDB ReplicaSet means that the InnoDB
       cluster metadata schema has been upgraded to version 2.0.
       Regardless of whether you plan to use InnoDB ReplicaSet
       or not, to use MySQL Shell 8.0.19 and AdminAPI you must
       upgrade the metadata of your clusters. Connect MySQL
       Shell’s global session to your cluster and use the new
       dba.upgradeMetadata() operation to upgrade the cluster’s
       metadata to use the new metadata.
       Warning
       Without upgrading the metadata you cannot use MySQL Shell
       8.0.19 to change the configuration of a cluster created
       with earlier versions. You can only read the
       configuration of the cluster, for example using
       Cluster.status().
       The dba.upgradeMetadata() operation upgrades any
       automatically created MySQL Router users to have the
       correct privileges. Manually created MySQL Router users
       with a name not starting with mysql_router_ are not
       automatically upgraded. This is an important step in
       upgrading your cluster, only then can the MySQL Router
       application be upgraded.
       Warning
       A cluster which is using the new metadata cannot be
       administered by earlier MySQL Shell versions, for example
       once you upgrade to version 8.0.19 you can no longer use
       version 8.0.18 or earlier to administer the cluster.
       To get information on which of the MySQL Router instances
       registered with a cluster require the metadata upgrade,
       issue
       cluster.listRouters({‘onlyUpgradeRequired’:’true’}).

     * AdminAPI now supports socket connections to be used for
       cluster and replica set operations. (Bug #26265826)

     * You can now get information about the MySQL Router
       instances registered with a InnoDB cluster, and
       unregister a Router from a cluster, for example when you
       stop using it. The list of Routers registered with a
       cluster contains information about whether the Router
       instance is compatible with the version of MySQL on the
       cluster instances, which guides you when upgrading a
       cluster. Use the Cluster.listRouters() operation to show
       a list of all Routers registered with the cluster. The
       returned JSON object provides information such as the
       hostname, ports, and if an upgrade is required. To filter
       the list to only show Router instances that do not
       support the latest metadata version use the
       onlyUpgradeRequired option, for example by issuing
       Cluster.listRouters({‘onlyUpgradeRequired’:’true’}). To
       remove a registered Router from a cluster, use the
       Cluster.removeRouterMetadata(router) operation.

     * The AdminAPI includes support for InnoDB ReplicaSet, that
       enables you to administer asynchronous replication sets
       in a similar way to InnoDB cluster. InnoDB ReplicaSet
       enables you to deploy an asynchronous replication set
       consisting of a single primary and multiple secondaries
       (traditionally referred to as the MySQL replication
       master and slaves). You administer a ReplicaSet using
       AdminAPI operations, for example to check the status of
       the InnoDB ReplicaSet, and manually failover to a new
       primary in the event of a failure. Similar to InnoDB
       cluster, MySQL Router supports bootstrapping against
       InnoDB ReplicaSet, which means you can automatically
       configure MySQL Router to use your InnoDB ReplicaSet
       without having to manually configure files. This makes
       InnoDB ReplicaSet a quick and easy way to get MySQL
       replication and MySQL Router up and running, making it
       well suited to scaling out reads, development
       environments, and applications that do not require the
       high availability offered by InnoDB cluster.

InnoDB Cluster Bugs Fixed


     * The dba.configureLocalInstance() operation could fail
       with a key not found (LogicError) error when executed on
       a non-sandbox instance where it did not have access to
       the my.cnf option file and the operation requested an
       output configuration file to be specified. (Bug
       #30657204)

     * If a cluster had been deployed with MySQL Shell version
       8.0.14 or earlier, the metadata contained an invalid port
       number for X Protocol connections. The metadata upgrade
       catches such ports and removes the invalid number. To
       avoid problems with routing due to this incorrect port,
       upgrade your cluster’s metadata. (Bug #30618264)

     * When a replication slave was configured to read from an
       InnoDB cluster primary, even with the appropriate
       replication filtering to ignore the metadata replication
       was failing when an instance was added to the cluster
       using MySQL Clone as the recovery method. This was
       because the recovery process was granting a privilege on
       an account, which failed and broke replication. (Bug
       #30609075)

     * The Cluster.removeInstance() operation was issuing a
       misleading error message when the instance was
       unreachable, indicating that it did not belong to the
       cluster when an alternative valid host or IP was used.
       Now, the error indicates that the instance is
       unreachable. (Bug #30580393)

     * Although MySQL Shell version 8.0.18 added support for
       IPv6 in WL#12758
       (https://dev.mysql.com/worklog/task/?id=12758), using an
       InnoDB cluster which consisted of MySQL Shell version
       8.0.18 and MySQL Router 8.0.18 with IPv6 addresses was
       not possible. With the release of version 8.0.19 of both
       MySQL Shell and MySQL Router, be aware that:

          + combining MySQL Shell version 8.0.18 with MySQL
            Router 8.0.18 causes Router to fail, due to no IPv6
            support. (BUG#30354273)

          + combining MySQL Shell version 8.0.18 with Router
            8.0.19 in a cluster which uses X Protocol
            connections, results in AdminAPI storing mysqlX IPv6
            values incorrectly in the metadata, causing Router
            to fail. (BUG#30548843) However, combining MySQL
            Shell version 8.0.18 with Router 8.0.19 in a cluster
            which uses MySQL classic protocol connections, is
            possible.
       Therefore, to use InnoDB cluster with IPv6 addresses,
       regardless of the protocol used, the recommended
       deployment is MySQL Shell 8.0.19 and MySQL Router 8.0.19.
       (Bug #30548843)
       References: See also: Bug #30354273.

     * When using automatic rejoin, if a target instance was
       rejoining the cluster, operations such as
       dba.rebootClusterFromCompleteOutage(), Cluster.status(),
       and so on were failing. Now, clusters consider automatic
       rejoin as an instance state instead of a check that
       always aborts the operation. This ensures that
       Cluster.status() is reported even for instances which are
       rejoining the cluster, and that
       dba.rebootClusterFromCompleteOutage() can detect
       instances which are rejoining the cluster and override
       the rejoin operation so that the cluster can be properly
       rebooted. (Bug #30501590)

     * SSL client certificate options for the clusterAdmin user
       were not being copied when setting up connection options,
       which made them fail when connecting. (Bug #30494198)

     * When the automatically calculated localAddress is not
       valid, for example when it exceeds the valid range, the
       error message has now been improved. See Configuring
       Ports
       (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-innodb-cluster-production-deployment.html#configuring-instance-ports).
       (Bug #30405569)

     * The AdminAPI ensures that all members of a cluster have
       the same consistency level as configured at cluster
       creation time. However, when high and non-default
       consistency levels were chosen for the cluster, adding
       instances to it resulted in an error 3796 which indicates
       that group_replication_consistency cannot be used on the
       target instance. This happened because the consistency
       values of BEFORE, AFTER and BEFORE_AND_AFTER cannot be
       used on instances that are RECOVERING and several
       transactions happen while the instance is in the
       RECOVERING phase. Other AdminAPI commands result in the
       same error for the same scenario (high global consistency
       levels) whenever at least one member of the cluster is
       RECOVERING. For example, dba.getCluster(). The fix
       ensures that all sessions used by the AdminAPI use the
       consistency level of EVENTUAL when the cluster’s
       consistency level is BEFORE, AFTER or BEFORE_AND_AFTER.
       (Bug #30394258, Bug #30401048)

     * Some privileges required for persisting configuration
       changes on MySQL 8.0 servers were missing for the
       clusterAdmin users created by AdminAPI. In particular, an
       Access Denied error was being issued indicating the
       SYSTEM_VARIABLES_ADMIN and PERSIST_RO_VARIABLES_ADMIN
       privileges were required. Now these privileges are added
       for the clusterAdmin user on MySQL 8.0 servers. (Bug
       #30339460)

     * When using MySQL Clone as the recovery method, trying to
       add an instance that did not support RESTART to a cluster
       caused MySQL Shell to stop unexpectedly. Now, in such a
       situation a message explains that Cluster.rescan() must
       be used to ensure the instance is added to the metadata.
       (Bug #30281908)

     * The autocommit and sql_mode system variables are session
       settings, but they can be set globally to different
       values. AdminAPI was failing if these variables had
       non-default values in several different ways, for example
       DML was failing, system variables could not be set and so
       on. (Bug #30202883, Bug #30324461)

     * Attempting to bootstrap MySQL Router against an InnoDB
       cluster which had had the cluster administration user
       modified or removed was failing. This was caused by the
       privileges granted on the InnoDB cluster metadata table.
       The recommended solution is to upgrade to metadata 2.0,
       which changes the privileges on the metadata to ensure
       this issue does not occur. (Bug #29868432)

     * When you created a multi-primary cluster, the
       group_replication_enforce_update_everywhere_checks system
       variable was not being set automatically. However,
       switching to multi-primary mode automatically enables
       group_replication_enforce_update_everywhere_checks and
       switching to single-primary disables it. Now, the
       dba.createCluster() operation sets the
       group_replication_enforce_update_everywhere_checks
       variable as appropriate for single-primary or
       multi-primary clusters. (Bug #29794779)

     * In version 8.0.16, the autoRejoinTries option was added
       to define the number of times an instance attempts to
       rejoin the cluster after being expelled. The option is a
       valid cluster setting, configurable through the AdminAPI
       like many other options. However, the autoRejoinTries
       option was not being listed by Cluster.options(). (Bug
       #29654346)

     * The InnoDB cluster metadata now supports host names up to
       265 characters long, where 255 characters can be the host
       part and the remaining characters can be the port number.
       (Bug #29507913)

     * dba.createCluster() could fail if the instance had been
       started with innodb_default_row_format=COMPACT or
       innodb_default_row_format=REDUNDANT. This was because no
       ROW_FORMAT was specified on the InnoDB cluster metadata
       tables, which caused them to use the one defined in
       innodb_default_row_format. The metadata schema has been
       updated to use ROW_FORMAT = DYNAMIC. (Bug #28531271)

     * When an instance restarted, for example after a complete
       outage, it could have super_read_only disabled. This
       meant that instances which were not the primary could be
       written to, resulting in the instances no longer being in
       synchrony. This could result in
       dba.rebootClusterFromCompleteOutage() failing with a
       Conflicting transaction sets error. The fix ensures that
       all instances have super_read_only=1 persisted while they
       belong to the cluster, either through SET PERSIST_ONLY,
       or through dba.configureLocalInstance() for instances
       which do not support persisting. (Bug #97279, Bug
       #30545872)

     * The Cluster.status() operation could report an error
       get_uint(24): field value out of the allowed range
       because it was always expecting a positive value for some
       fields that could in fact have negative values. For
       example, this could happen when the clocks of different
       instances were offset. (Bug #95191, Bug #29705983)

     * If you changed the name of the clusterAdmin user once a
       cluster had been created, you could encounter an error
       such as The user specified as a definer does not exist.
       This was because the clusterAdmin user was used as the
       DEFINER of the views required by InnoDB cluster, and if
       this user is renamed then the definer is in effect
       missing. In version 8.0.19 the InnoDB cluster metadata
       has been changed to avoid this problem, use
       dba.upgradeMetadata() to upgrade the cluster. Clusters
       deployed with 8.0.19 and later do not suffer from this
       issue. (Bug #92128, Bug #28541069)

     * It was not possible to create a multi-primary cluster due
       to to cascading constraints on the InnoDB cluster
       metadata tables. This has been fixed in version 8.0.19
       and so to solve this issue upgrade your cluster using
       dba.upgradeMetadata(). (Bug #91972, Bug #29137199)

Functionality Added or Changed


     * The JavaScript function require() has been improved in
       MySQL Shell to support loading of local modules, in
       addition to built-in modules and modules that are on
       module search paths already known to MySQL Shell. If you
       specify the module name or path prefixed with ./ or ../,
       MySQL Shell now searches for the specified module in the
       folder that contains the JavaScript file or module
       currently being executed, or in interactive mode,
       searches in the current working directory. If the module
       is not found in that folder, MySQL Shell proceeds to
       check the well-known module search paths specified by the
       sys.path variable.

     * MySQL Shell’s upgrade checker utility (the
       util.checkForServerUpgrade() operation) includes the
       following new and extended checks:

          + The utility now flags all date, datetime, and
            timestamp columns that have a default value of zero,
            and states if the SQL mode (either global or for the
            current session) allows the insertion of zero values
            for these column types. By default, these are no
            longer permitted in MySQL, and it is strongly
            advised to replace zero values with valid ones, as
            they might not work correctly in the future.

          + The check for usage of removed functions now
            includes the PASSWORD() function.

          + The utility now checks for any orphaned tables which
            are recognized by InnoDB, but the SQL layer thinks
            they are handled by a different storage engine. This
            situation can happen if manual updates are made in
            the data directory. Orphaned tables can stall the
            upgrade process if they are present.

     * In MySQL Shell’s interactive mode, for JavaScript,
       Python, or SQL, the \source command or its alias \. can
       be used to execute code from a script file at a given
       path. For compatibility with the mysql client, in SQL
       mode only, you can now execute code from a script file
       using the source command with no backslash and an
       optional SQL delimiter. source can be used both in MySQL
       Shell’s interactive mode for SQL, to execute a script
       directly, and in a file of SQL code processed in batch
       mode, to execute a further script from within the file.
       In SQL mode only, you can also now use the \source
       command’s alias \. (which does not use a SQL delimiter)
       in a file of SQL code processed in batch mode. So with
       MySQL Shell in SQL mode, you could now execute the script
       in the /tmp/mydata.sql file from either interactive mode
       or batch mode using any of these three commands:
        source /tmp/mydata.sql;
        source /tmp/mydata.sql
        \. /tmp/mydata.sql

       The command \source /tmp/mydata.sql is also valid, but in
       interactive mode only.

Bugs Fixed


     * When searching for startup scripts in the platform’s
       standard global configuration path (in the folder
       %PROGRAMDATA%\MySQL\mysqlsh on Windows, or
/etc/mysql/mysqlsh/ on Unix), MySQL Shell checked for the
       incorrect script name shellrc, rather than the correct
       name mysqlshrc. (Bug #30656548)

     * On Windows, MySQL Shell passed UTF-8 encoded strings to
       the NTFS file system, which stores file names in UTF-16
       encoding. The mismatch caused files and folders to be
       incorrectly named or located when non-ASCII characters
       were used. MySQL Shell now converts all strings used in
       operations on NTFS from UTF-8 to UTF-16, and converts
       back to UTF-8 all strings received from Unicode function
       versions of Windows API calls. (Bug #30538516)

     * Some host names were not parsed correctly in the
       connection data provided when running MySQL Shell’s
       upgrade checker utility checkForServerUpgrade(). (Bug
       #30536355)

     * If the MySQL Server environment variable MYSQL_UNIX_PORT
       (which specifies the default Unix socket file) was
       updated by the same process that was then used to create
       a MySQL Shell connection to a MySQL server using a socket
       file, MySQL Shell cached and connected using the socket
       file path that had previously been set, but reported that
       a connection had been made using the updated socket file
       path. The correct socket file used for the connection is
       now displayed. (Bug #30533318)

     * If a prompt theme file used to customize the MySQL Shell
       prompt contained an ill-formed UTF-8 sequence, on startup
       an error message was displayed in place of the prompt
       text. MySQL Shell now validates the prompt theme file
       before loading it, and if there is a problem, uses a
       default prompt instead and issues an error message. (Bug
       #30406283)

     * If MySQL Shell was installed on Microsoft Windows at a
       non-default location, and subsequently uninstalled, files
       created after installation by the Python library used by
       MySQL Shell were not removed. These files are now removed
       when MySQL Shell is uninstalled from any location. (Bug
       #30333801)

     * Previously, most MySQL Shell options that expected an
       integer value could be set with an empty value, in which
       case the value 1 was applied. The exception was the
       logLevel option, which required a value. The behavior has
       now been standardized so all MySQL Shell options that
       expect a non-string value must be specified with a value,
       with the exception of options set on the command line.
       The affected options are dba.gtidWaitTimeout, dba.logSql,
       history.maxSize, and verbose. (Bug #30320839)

     * When using MySQL Shell in interactive mode, using a
       template literal in a multiple-line JavaScript statement
       resulted in an error. The issue has now been fixed. (Bug
       #30248651)

     * In Python mode, when multiple statements were input to
       MySQL Shell at the same time for execution in interactive
       mode, only the first statement was executed correctly.
       (Bug #30029568)

     * The Debian control file for MySQL Shell has been
       corrected to remove packaging errors that occurred when
       certain variables were not defined. Thanks to Evgeniy
       Patlan for the fix. (Bug #29802600, Bug #95158)

     * In MySQL Shell’s parser for URI-like connection strings,
       handling of path separators was previously platform
       dependent. Unified parsing has now been introduced so
       that Windows named pipes can be parsed correctly on Unix
       platforms, and Unix socket files can be parsed correctly
       on Windows platforms. (Bug #29456981)

     * MySQL Shell now looks up host names by obtaining the
       fully qualified domain name of the provided address and
       using the absolute form of this name (with a trailing
       dot). This method avoids potential issues caused by some
       network configurations that resolve host names as
       loopback addresses when they are actually addressable
       externally. (Bug #27704559)


On Behalf of Oracle/MySQL Release Engineering Team,
Hery Ramilison

MySQL Connector/NET 8.0.19 has been released

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Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/NET 8.0.19 is the latest General Availability release of
the MySQL Connector/NET 8.0 series. This version supports .NET Core 3.0
and the X DevAPI, which enables application developers to write code
that combines the strengths of the relational and document models using
a modern, NoSQL-like syntax that does not assume previous experience
writing traditional SQL.

To learn more about how to write applications using the X DevAPI, see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/index.html. For more
information about how the X DevAPI is implemented in Connector/NET, see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-net.
NuGet packages provide functionality at a project level. To get the
full set of features available in Connector/NET such as availability
in the GAC, integration with Visual Studio’s Entity Framework Designer
and integration with MySQL for Visual Studio, installation through
the MySQL Installer or the stand-alone MSI is required.

Please note that the X DevAPI requires at least MySQL Server version
8.0 or higher with the X Plugin enabled. For general documentation
about how to get started using MySQL as a document store, see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/document-store.html.

To download MySQL Connector/NET 8.0.19, see
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/

Installation instructions can be found at
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-net/en/connector-net-installation.html

Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 8.0.19 (2020-01-13, General
Availability)


     * Functionality Added or Changed

     * Bugs Fixed

Functionality Added or Changed


     * Connector/NET supports TLS protocol versions TLSv1,
       TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2, and TLSv1.3. A new connection-string
       option, tlsversion, permits the restriction of a
       connection to a single version or to a list with any
       combination of the four supported TLS versions (see
       Options for Both Classic MySQL Protocol and X Protocol
(https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-net/en/connector-net-8-0-connection-options.html#connector-net-8-0-connection-options-classic-xprotocol)).
       Known issue: both .NET Core 3.0 (crossplatform) and .NET
       Framework 4.8 (windows only) added support for TLSv1.3.
       Be sure to confirm that the platform operating system
       running your application also supports TLSv1.3 before
       using it exclusively for connections. (Bug #30225427)

     * Support for DNS Service (SRV) records now provides an
       alternative to specifying individual hosts in the
       connection string. Instead, a single DNS domain can map
       to multiple targets (servers) using SRV address records.
       Each SRV record includes the host name, port, priority,
       and weight. For .NET applications using X Protocol, a new
       URI scheme of mysqlx+srv:// enables connections to share
       the query load when a single DNS domain is mapped to
       multiple servers.
       Similarly, the new dns-srv connection-string option also
       enables DNS SRV lookups for connections using either the
       classic MySQL protocol or X Protocol. The DNS SRV feature
       is disable by default. For usage information, see Options
       for Both Classic MySQL Protocol and X Protocol
(https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-net/en/connector-net-8-0-connection-options.html#connector-net-8-0-connection-options-classic-xprotocol).

     * When creating a new connection using classic MySQL
       protocol, multiple hosts can be tried until a successful
       connection is established. A list of hosts can be given
       in a connection string, with or without priorities.

// Example with priority
server=(address=192.10.1.52:3305,priority=60),(address=localhost:3306,
priority=100);

// Example without priority and with multiple ports
host=10.10.10.10:3306,192.101.10.2:3305,localhost:3306;uid=test;passwo
rd=xxxx;

       If the priority is not included, or if multiple hosts
       have the same priority, Connector/NET selects a host at
       random. The same random selection behavior also applies
       to connections made using X Protocol, which previously
       selected hosts sequentially when no priority was
       specified.

Bugs Fixed


     * Clone connections did not process all connection settings
       as expected. (Bug #30502718)

     * Connector/NET files displayed an unlikely date after the
       NuGet package containing them was installed in a project.
       (Bug #30471336, Bug #97390)

     * The inclusion of the System.Resources.Extensions
       dependency was transient and now is removed from the
       MySql.Data NuGet package. (Bug #30421657, Bug #97218)

On behalf of Oracle/MySQL Release Engineering Team,
Tvarita Jain

MySQL Connector/Node.js 8.0.19 has been released

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Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/Node.js is a new Node.js driver for use with the X
DevAPI. This release, v8.0.19, is a maintenance release of the
MySQL Connector/Node.js 8.0 series.

The X DevAPI enables application developers to write code that combines
the strengths of the relational and document models using a modern,
NoSQL-like syntax that does not assume previous experience writing
traditional SQL.

MySQL Connector/Node.js can be downloaded through npm (see
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@mysql/xdevapi for details) or from
https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/nodejs/.

To learn more about how to write applications using the X DevAPI, see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/.
For more information about how the X DevAPI is implemented in MySQL
Connector/Node.js, and its usage, see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-nodejs/.

Please note that the X DevAPI requires at least MySQL Server version
8.0 or higher with the X Plugin enabled. For general documentation
about how to get started using MySQL as a document store, see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/document-store.html.

Changes in MySQL Connector/Node.js 8.0.19 (2020-01-13, General Availability)

Functionality Added or Changed

  • Added DNS SRV support.
    Using the mysqlx+srv scheme+extension in a connection
    string (or enabling the resolveSrv option in a connection
    configuration object) allows to automatically resolve any
    SRV record available in a target DNS server or service
    discovery endpoint.

Bugs Fixed

  • Improved the CRUD API error messages. (Bug #30423556)
  • The getAffectedItemsCount() method did not function on
    result sets in v8.0.18. (Bug #30401962)
  • The Collection.existsInDatabase() method did not
    function. (Bug #30401432)

On Behalf of MySQL/ORACLE RE Team
Gipson Pulla

MySQL Connector/J 8.0.19 has been released

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Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/J 8.0.19 is the latest General Availability release of
the MySQL Connector/J 8.0 series.  It is suitable for use with MySQL
Server versions 8.0, 5.7, and 5.6.  It supports the Java Database
Connectivity (JDBC) 4.2 API, and implements the X DevAPI.

This release includes the following new features and changes, also
described in more detail on

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-j/8.0/en/news-8-0-19.html

As always, we recommend that you check the “CHANGES” file in the
download archive to be aware of changes in behavior that might affect
your application.

To download MySQL Connector/J 8.0.19 GA, see the “General Availability
(GA) Releases” tab at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/

Enjoy!

Changes in MySQL Connector/J 8.0.19 (2020-01-13, General Availability)

Functionality Added or Changed


     * Connector/J now supports the use of DNS SRV records for
       connections.  Here is a brief summary for Connector/J’s support
       for DNS SRV records:

          + These new schemas in the connection URLs enable DNS
            SRV support:
               o jdbc:mysql+srv: For ordinary and basic failover
                 JDBC connections that make use of DNS SRV
                 records.
               o jdbc:mysql+srv:loadbalance: For load-balancing
                 JDBC connections that make use of DNS SRV
                 records.
               o jdbc:mysql+srv:replication: For replication
                 JDBC connections that make use of DNS SRV
                 records.
               o mysqlx+srv: For X DevAPI connections that make
                 use of DNS SRV records.

          + Besides using the new schemas in the connection
            URLs, DNS SRV record support can also be enabled or
            disabled using the two new connection properties,
            dnsSrv and xdevapi.dns-srv, for JDBC and X DevAPI
            connections respectively.
       See Support for DNS SRV Records
(https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-j/8.0/en/connector-j-reference-dns-srv.html)
       in the Connector/J 8.0 Developer Guide
(https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-j/8.0/en/) for
       details.

     * X DevAPI: The server failover support for connections
       using X DevAPI has been enhanced with the following features:

          + When the priority property is NOT set for each host
            in the connection URL, failover connections are
            attempted on the hosts in a random order, until a
            connection is successfully established (Connector/J
            used to attempt connections to the hosts in the
            sequence they appear in the connection URL).

          + Once all hosts have been tried and no connections
            can be made, Connector/J throws a
            com.mysql.cj.exceptions.CJCommunicationsException
            and returns the message Unable to connect to any of
            the target hosts.

          + When using connection pooling, Connector/J keeps
            track of any host it failed to connect to and, for a
            short waiting period after the failure, avoids
            connecting to it during the creation or retrieval of
            a Session. However, if all other hosts have already
            been tried, those excluded hosts will be retried
            without waiting. Once all hosts have been tried and
            no connections can be established, Connector/J
            throws a
            com.mysql.cj.exceptions.CJCommunicationsException
            and returns the message Unable to connect to any of
            the target hosts.

     * X DevAPI: The allowed TLS versions and cipher suites for
       X DevAPI connections can now be restricted by two new
       connection properties:

          + xdevapi.tls-versions restricts the allowable TLS
            protocol versions to be used for X DevAPI
            connections.

          + xdevapi.tls-ciphersuites restricts the allowable
            cipher suites to be used for X DevAPI connections.
       See the descriptions for them in Configuration Properties
(https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-j/8.0/en/connector-j-reference-configuration-properties.html)
       and also Connecting Securely Using SSL
(https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-j/8.0/en/connector-j-reference-using-ssl.html)
       for details.

     * MySQL Server 8.0.17 deprecated the display width for the
       TINYINT, SMALLINT, MEDIUMINT, INT, and BIGINT data types when the
       ZEROFILL modifier is not used, and MySQL Server 8.0.19 has
       removed the display width for those data types from results of
       SHOW CREATE TABLE, SHOW CREATE FUNCTION, and queries on
       INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS, INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES, and
       INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PARAMETERS (except for the display width for
       signed TINYINT(1)). This patch adjusts Connector/J to those
       recent changes of MySQL Server and, as a result,
       DatabaseMetaData, ParameterMetaData, and ResultSetMetaData now
       report identical results for all the above-mentioned integer
       types and also for the FLOAT and DOUBLE data types.
       (Bug #30477722)

     * The cipher suites usable by Connector/J are now
       pre-restricted by a properties file that can be found at
       src/main/resources/com/mysql/cj/TlsSettings.properties inside the
       src folder on the source tree or in the platform-independent
       distribution archive (in .tar.gz or .zip format) for Connector/J.
       See Connecting Securely Using SSL
(https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-j/8.0/en/connector-j-reference-using-ssl.html)
       for details.

     * The allowable versions of TLS protocol used for
       connecting to the server, when no restrictions have been set
       using the connection properties enabledTLSProtocols, have been
       changed to:

          + TLSv1, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2, and TLSv1.3 for MySQL
            Community Servers 8.0, 5.7.28 and later, and 5.6.46
            and later, and for all commercial versions of MySQL
            Servers.

          + TLSv1 and TLSv1.1 for all other versions of MySQL
            Servers.

Bugs Fixed


     * The RPM package for Connection/J provided by the MySQL
       Yum repository did not have its epoch set; as a result, the
       package could not be installed on an Enterprise Linux or Fedora
       system even if the MySQL Yum repository has been enabled, because
       the Connector/J package in the native repository had the epoch
       set to 1. This fix sets the epoch also to 1 for the RPM package
       provided by the MySQL Yum repository, in order to prevent the
       installation problem. (Bug #30566384, Bug #97700)

     * For some prepared statements, calling getMetaData() on
       them resulted in an Incorrect DATE error, even when no DATE
       values were involved. This was due to some recent changes on the
       MySQL 8.0 Server, to which this patch adjusts Connector/J. (Bug
       #30151808, Bug #96442) References: See also: Bug #29025656,
       Bug #28940878.

     * When retrieving TIME values using
       ResultSet.getTimestamp(), the fractional seconds are truncated
       when useCursorFetch=true. This patch corrects the problem by
       fixing the TIME value decoding in the MysqlBinaryValueDecoder. It
       also corrects some inconsistencies in formatting the fractional
       seconds when returning the TIME values as strings.
       (Bug #30119545, Bug #96383)

     * Streaming of multiple result sets failed with an error.
       It was due to an error in switching the streamer source from one
       result set to another, and this fix corrects the issue.
       (Bug #29999318, Bug #96059)

Enjoy and thanks for the support!

On behalf of the MySQL Release Team,
Nawaz Nazeer Ahamed

MySQL Connector/Python 8.0.19 has been released

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Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/Python 8.0.19 is the latest GA release version of the
MySQL Connector Python 8.0 series. The X DevAPI enables application
developers to write code that combines the strengths of the relational
and document models using a modern, NoSQL-like syntax that does not
assume previous experience writing traditional SQL.

To learn more about how to write applications using the X DevAPI, see

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/

For more information about how the X DevAPI is implemented in MySQL
Connector/Python, and its usage, see

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-python

Please note that the X DevAPI requires at least MySQL Server version 8.0
or higher with the X Plugin enabled. For general documentation about how
to get started using MySQL as a document store, see

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/document-store.html

To download MySQL Connector/Python 8.0.19, see the “General Availability
(GA) Releases” tab at

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python/

Enjoy!

==============================================================================

Changes in MySQL Connector/Python 8.0.19 (2020-01-13, General Availability)


     * Functionality Added or Changed

     * Bugs Fixed

Functionality Added or Changed


     * Added DNS SRV support.
       To automatically resolve any SRV record available in a
       target DNS server or service discovery endpoint, use the
       mysqlx+srv scheme+extension in a X DevAPI connection
       string, or mysqlx+srv for the classic protocol, or by
       enabling the dns-srv=True (or dns_srv=True) connection
       option when using keyword arguments or dictionaries.

     * Added two new connection options that evaluate during the
       TLS handshake to restrict the negotiated TLS protocols
       and ciphers; along with those configured on the server
       that can further restrict the final choices. The new
       options are tls-versions to define the allowed TLS
       protocol versions, and tls-ciphersuites for the allowed
       cipher suitess. These definitions are comma-separated,
       and accepted by the getSession() and getClient() methods.
       tls-versions: accepts one or more of the following:
       TLSv1, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2, and TLSv1.3. Other values
       generate an error. Example usage:
mysqlx://myserver/db?tls-versions=[TLSv1.2,TLSv1.3]
       tls-ciphersuites: accepts IANA cipher suite names, as
       listed on IANA’s TLS Cipher Suites
(https://www.iana.org/assignments/tls-parameters/tls-parameters.xhtml#tls-parameters-4)
       page. Unsupported or
       unknown values are ignored. Example usage:
mysqlx://myserver/db?tls-ciphersuites=[TLS_DHE_PSK_WITH_A
       ES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256]

     * The internal X Protocol namespace changed from xplugin to
       mysqlx.
       MySQL Server removed xplugin namespace support in
       v8.0.19; for Connector/Python this means:

          + With Connector/Python v8.0.19 and higher, some X
            DevAPI Protocol operations do not function with
            MySQL Server v8.0.18 and lower, operations such as
            Schema.create_collection(), Schema.get_collections(),
            Schema.get_tables(), and Collection.create_index().

          + Connector/Python 8.0.19 can connect to MySQL Server
            8.0.18 and lower, as both the ‘xplugin’ (with deprecation
            warnings) and ‘mysqlx’ namespaces can be used.

Bugs Fixed


     * Fixed the reserved SSL authentication filed; it changed
       from 23 to 22. Thanks to Qianqian Bu for the patch. (Bug
       #30270760, Bug #96770)
       References: This issue is a regression of: Bug #29855733.

     * Fixed LOAD DATA INFILE LOCAL handling; the file handle
       was not closed. Thanks to Micah Gale for the patch. (Bug
       #29417117, Bug #94496)


On Behalf of Oracle/MySQL Engineering Team
Prashant Tekriwal

MySQL Connector/ODBC 8.0.19 has been released

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Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/ODBC 8.0.19 is a new version in the MySQL Connector/ODBC
8.0 series, the ODBC driver for the MySQL Server.

The available downloads include both a Unicode driver and an ANSI driver
based on the same modern codebase. Please select the driver type you
need based on the type of your application – Unicode or ANSI.
Server-side prepared statements are enabled by default. It is suitable
for use with the latest MySQL server version 8.0.

This release of the MySQL ODBC driver is conforming to the ODBC 3.8
specification.  It contains implementations of key 3.8 features,
including self-identification as a ODBC 3.8 driver, streaming of out for
binary types only), and support of the SQL_ATTR_RESET_CONNECTION
connection attribute (for the Unicode driver only).

The release is now available in source and binary form for a number of
platforms from our download pages at

https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/

For information on installing, please see the documentation at

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-odbc/en/connector-odbc-installation.html

Enjoy and thanks for the support!

==============================================================================

Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 8.0.19 (2020-01-13, General Availability)


     * Functionality Added or Changed

     * Bugs Fixed

Functionality Added or Changed


     * Added DNS SRV support.
       To automatically resolve any SRV record available in a
       target DNS server or service discovery endpoint, specify
       ENABLE_DNS_SRV=1 in the DSN; the host is passed for SRV
       lookup without a port and with a full lookup name. For
       example: DRIVER={MySQL ODBC 8.0
Driver};SERVER=_mysql._tcp.foo.abc.com;ENABLE_DNS_SRV=1;U
       SER=user;PWD=passwd;

     * Confirmed support for compiling with VS2019, and for
       supporting the Visual C++ 2019 redistributable.

     * When creating a new connection using the classic MySQL
       protocol, multiple hosts can be tried until a successful
       connection is established. A list of hosts can be given
       in a connection string, along with passing MULTI_HOST=1
       to to enable this functionality. The connection string
       looks similar to
SERVER=address1[:port1],address2[:port2]….;MULTI_HOST=1
       ;.
       Other notes: the default port is used if port is not
       specified, the connector randomly picks hosts, and if a
       host fails then a new host is chosen. An error is
       returned if SERVER contains multiple hosts when
       MULTI_HOST is not enabled.

Bugs Fixed


     * With prepared SELECT statements the fixed-length numeric
       types such as INT were set to 0 instead of their stored
       value. (Bug #30428851, Bug #97191)

     * Connector/ODBC failed to compile when dynamically linking
       to the MySQL client library
       (MYSQLCLIENT_STATIC_LINKING=0); due to a mismatch between
       an internal copy of the library headers and the version
       of code implementing the library internals. (Bug
       #30292290, Bug #96835)

     * Improved handling for stored procedures and the INOUT
       parameter.
       For example, if a stored procedure had one or more
       parameters then an incomplete result set could be
       returned. (Bug #29467224, Bug #94623)

On Behalf of Oracle/MySQL Engineering Team
Prashant Tekriwal

MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.3.14 has been released

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Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.3.14, a new version of the ODBC driver for the
MySQL database management system, has been released.

The available downloads include both a Unicode driver and an ANSI
driver based on the same modern codebase. Please select the driver
type you need based on the type of your application – Unicode or ANSI.
Server-side prepared statements are enabled by default. It is suitable
for use with any MySQL version from 5.6.

This is the sixth release of the MySQL ODBC driver conforming to the
ODBC 3.8 specification. It contains implementations of key 3.8
features, including self-identification as a ODBC 3.8 driver,
streaming of output parameters (supported for binary types only), and
support of the SQL_ATTR_RESET_CONNECTION connection attribute (for the
Unicode driver only).

The release is now available in source and binary form for a number of
platforms from our download pages at

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/5.3.html

For information on installing, please see the documentation at

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-odbc/en/connector-odbc-installation.html

Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.3.14 (2019-10-30, General Availability)

Bugs Fixed

* On EL7, and only when using the generic Linux packages, SQLSetPos usage caused an unexpected shutdown. (Bug #29630465)

On Behalf of Oracle/MySQL Release Engineering Team,
Hery Ramilison

MySQL Connector/C++ 1.1.13 has been released

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Dear MySQL Users,

MySQL Connector/C++ 1.1.13 is a new release version of the MySQL
Connector/C++ 1.1 series.

Connector/C++ 1.1 can be used to access MySQL using an API
based on JDBC4.

For information on using Connector/C++ 1.1, see

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-cpp/1.1/en/

To download MySQL Connector/C++ 1.1.13, see the “General
Availability (GA) Releases” tab at

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/cpp/1.1.html

MySQL Connector C++ (Commercial) will be available for download on the
My Oracle Support (MOS) website. This release will be available on
eDelivery (OSDC) in next month’s upload cycle.

Connector/C++ 1.1 offers an easy to use API derived from JDBC 4.0.

Enjoy!

Changes in MySQL Connector/C++ 1.1.13 (2019-10-25, General
Availability)

Character Set Support

     * Connector/C++ now supports the utf8mb4_0900_bin collation
       added for the utf8mb4 Unicode character set in MySQL
       8.0.17. For more information about this collation, see
       Unicode Character Sets
(https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/charset-unicode-sets.html).

Bugs Fixed

     * Connector/C++ set the transaction isolation level to
       REPEATABLE READ at connect time, regardless of the
       current server setting. (Bug #22038313, Bug #78852, Bug
       #30294415)

On Behalf of MySQL/ORACLE RE Team
Gipson Pulla