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MySQL Connector/Java 5.1.46 GA has been released
Posted by: Jocelyn Ramilison
Date: March 12, 2018 05:38PM

Dear MySQL Users,

MySQL Connector/J 5.1.46, a maintenance release of the production 5.1
branch has been released. Connector/J is the Type-IV pure-Java JDBC
driver for MySQL.

MySQL Connector Java is 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.

MySQL Connector Java (Commercial) is already available for download on the
My Oracle Support (MOS) website. This release will shortly be available on
eDelivery (OSDC).

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 5.1.46 includes the following general bug fixes and
improvements, also available in more detail on
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-j/en/news-5-1-46.html

Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.46 (2018-03-12)

   Version 5.1.46 is a maintenance release of the production 5.1
   branch. It is suitable for use with MySQL Server versions
   5.5, 5.6, 5.7, and 8.0. It supports the Java Database
   Connectivity (JDBC) 4.2 API.

   Functionality Added or Changed

     * Because Connector/J restricted TLS versions to v1.1 and
       below by default when connecting to MySQL Community
       Server 8.0 (which used to be compiled with yaSSL by
       default and thus supporting only TLS v1.1 and below), it
       failed to connect to to a MySQL 8.0.4 Community Server
       (which has been compiled with OpenSSL by default and thus
       supports TLS v1.2) that was configured to only allow TLS
       v1.2 connections. TLS v1.2 is now enabled for connections
       with MySQL Community Server 8.0.4 and later. (Bug
       #27374581)

     * The bundle for Connector/J 5.1 delivered by Oracle now
       contains an additional jar package with the name
       mysql-connector-java-5.1.ver.jar
       (mysql-connector-java-commercial-5.1.ver.jar for
       commercial bundles). It is identical with the other jar
       package with the original package named
       mysql-connector-java-5.1.ver-bin.jar
       (mysql-connector-java-commercial-5.1.ver-bin.jar for
       commercial bundles), except for its more Maven-friendly
       file name. (Bug #27231383)

     * The lower bound for the connection property
       packetDebugBufferSize has been changed to 1, to avoid the
       connection errors that occur when the value is set to 0.
       (Bug #26819691)

     * For multi-host connections, when a MySQL Server was
       configured with autocommit=0, Connection.getAutoCommit()
       did not return the correct value. This was because
       useLocalSessionState=true was assumed for multi-host
       connections, which might not be the case, resulting thus
       in inconsistent session states.
       With this fix, by default, Connector/J executes some
       extra queries in the connection synchronization process
       to guarantee consistent session states between the client
       and the server at any connection switch. This would mean,
       however, that when none of the hosts are available during
       an attempted server switch, an exception for closed
       connection will be thrown immediately while, in earlier
       Connector/J versions, there would be a connection error
       thrown first before a closed connection error. Error
       handling in some applications might need to be adjusted
       accordingly.
       Applications can skip the new session state
       synchronization mechanism by having
       useLocalSessionState=true. (Bug #26314325, Bug #86741)

     * Connector/J now supports the new caching_sha2_password
       authentication plugin for MySQL 8.0, which is the default
       authentication plugin for MySQL 8.0.4 and later (see
       Caching SHA-2 Pluggable Authentication
       (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/caching-sha2-plug
       gable-authentication.html) for details).
       Note
       To authenticate accounts with the caching_sha2_password
       plugin, either a secure connection to the server using
       SSL
       (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-j/5.1/en/connector-j-
       reference-using-ssl.html) or an unencrypted connection
       that supports password exchange using an RSA key pair
       (enabled by setting one or both of the connecting
       properties allowPublicKeyRetrieval and
       serverRSAPublicKeyFile) must be used.
       Because earlier versions of Connector/J 5.1 do not
       support the caching_sha2_password authentication plugin
       and therefore will not be able to connect to accounts
       that authenticate with the new plugin (which might
       include the root account created by default during a new
       installation of a MySQL 8.0 Server), it is highly
       recommended that you upgrade now to Connector/J 5.1.46,
       to help ensure that your applications continue to work
       smoothly with the latest MySQL 8.0 Server.

   Bugs Fixed

     * When Connector/J 5.1.44 or earlier connected to MySQL
       5.7.20 or later, warnings are issued because Connector/J
       used the deprecated system variables tx_isolation and
       tx_read_only. These SQL-level warnings, returned from a
       SHOW WARNINGS statement, might cause some applications to
       throw errors and stop working. With this fix, the
       deprecated variables are no longer used for MySQL 5.7.20
       and later; also, to avoid similar issues, a SHOW WARNINGS
       statement is no longer issued for the use of deprecated
       variables. (Bug #27029657, Bug #88227)

     * When the default database was not specified for a
       connection, the connection attributes did not get stored
       in the session_connect_attrs table in the Performance
       Schema of the MySQL Server. (Bug #22362474, Bug #79612)

On Behalf of Oracle/MySQL Release Engineering Team
Hery Ramilison

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