MySQL Connector/J 5.1.29 has been released

[Surya Narayana Murthy Narkedimilli]

Hello all,

MySQL Connector/J 5.1.29, a maintenance release of the production
5.1 branch has been released. Connector/J is the Type-IV pure-Java
JDBC driver for MySQL.

Version 5.1.29 is suitable for use with many MySQL server versions,
including 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.4, 5.5 and 5.6.

It is now available in source and binary form from the Connector/J
download pages at
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/5.1.html
and mirror sites as well as Maven-2 repositories.

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.

MySQL Connector/J 5.1.29 includes the following general bug fixes
and improvements, also listed in more detail on
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-j/en/news-5-1-29.html

Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.29 (2014-02-03)

   Functionality Added or Changed

     * Added a new connection property
       detectCustomCollations=[true|false]. When its value is
       false (which is the default value), the
       ConnectionImpl.buildCollationMapping() method, for
       detecting non-standard character sets or collations, will
       NOT be called during the instantiation of a connection,
       thus shortening the time for establishing a connection.
       The introduction of this new property with the default
       value of false alters the old default behaviour of
       calling ConnectionImpl.buildCollationMapping() at each
       connection. If non-standard character sets or collations
       might be used, users should set
       detectCustomCollations=true. (Bug #17874902, Bug #71038)

   Bugs Fixed

     * DatabaseMetaData.getKeywords() did not return the latest
       reserved words as found in MySQL Server's documentation
       (for example, in Reserved Words
       (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/reserved-words.ht
       ml)). This fix makes the function generate, as per the
       JDBC API specification, a list of the latest MySQL and
       SQL standard keywords that are not also SQL92 (or,
       depending on the JDBC version in use, SQL2003) keywords.
       (Bug #17647584, Bug #70701)

Thanks,

On behalf of Oracle/MySQL Build Team,
Murthy Narkedimilli