Upgrade from 5.1.18 to 5.1.19 breaks Tomcat/JDBC error

[Jim netdata]

I just upgraded the connector/J from 5.1.18 to 5.1.19 and kablooy!

It gave me error that pool can't shake hands with server. I switch back to version 5.1.18 and it works fine again.

here is the exact error:

org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory (Bad handshake)

No other changes were done at all in any way to tomcat or mysql.

Here is my connecttion statement I ran in the Netbeans debugger and stepped through it and it blew up on the line cn = ds.getConnection();

Any reason this should be. I have not set any non default settings on the connection or in my.cnf relative to JDBC. Pool values are default.

try {
InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();

if (ctx == null) {
return false;
}

DataSource ds = (DataSource) ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/db-name-goes-here");

cn = ds.getConnection();
} catch (Exception e) {
res = false;
ma.emailDebug("ERROR safecallcn.java connect : " + e.toString() + "\r\n\r\n" + e.getMessage() + "\r\n\r\n");
}

HERE IS MY context.xml settings:

<Resource name="jdbc/db-name-goes-here"
auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource"
username="XXXX"
password="XXXX"
driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
url="jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/db-name-goes-here"
maxIdle="7"
validationQuery="Select 1" />

Development Server is using following software:

CONNECTOR/J:

5.1.19

JAVA:

java version "1.7.0_147-icedtea"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea7 2.0) (7~b147-2.0-0ubuntu0.11.10.1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 21.0-b17, mixed mode)

MYSQL

mysql-5.5.21

TOMCAT:

Tomcat 7.0.27

KUBUNTU

11.10

Linux wstation1 3.0.0-17-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 8 20:45:39 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux