MySQL Connector/J 5.1.25 has been released

[Jocelyn Ramilison]

Hello all,

MySQL Connector/J 5.1.25, 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 5.1.25 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 5.1.25 includes the following general bug fixes
and improvements, also listed in more detail on
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-j/en/news-5-1-25.html

Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.25 (01 May 2013)

Bugs Fixed

  * The getDriverName() function would return "MySQL-AB JDBC
    Driver" as the driver name. This fix changes the driver name
    string to "MySQL Connector Java". (Bug #16436511)

  * An exception occurred if NULL was passed to a stored procedure
    INOUT parameter. (Bug #60816, Bug #12800874)

  * The "mysql-connector-java-5.1.24.jar" prepared for maven.org
    contained the artifact, META-INF/INDEX.LIST, which incorrectly
    pointed to "mysql-connector-java-5.1.24-bin.jar". For
    Connector/J 5.1.25, META-INF/INDEX.LIST has been corrected and
    now points to "mysql-connector-java-5.1.25.jar".
    The work around for "mysql-connector-java-5.1.24.jar" prepared
    for maven.org is to rename the JAR file to
    "mysql-connector-java-5.1.24-bin.jar" or to download the MySQL
    Connector/J 5.1.24 driver from
    http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/. (Bug #68801, Bug
    #16574419)

  * ReplicationConnection.isMasterConnection(), which is intended
    to check if the current connection is the master connection,
    would always return "false". This fix implements logic that
    returns "true" if the current connection is the master
    connection. (Bug #68763, Bug #16545334)

  * When using Connector/J in a replication deployment, all of the
    slave connections would not be pinged. This fix ensures that
    all active physical connections to slaves are pinged, and that
    communication exceptions are thrown if:

       + The master connection ping fails, and the connection is
         currently set to use the master connection via
         Connection.setReadOnly(false).

       + The Connection object is set to use the slave via
         Connection.setReadOnly(true), and the currently-selected
         slave connection ping fails.
    (Bug #68733, Bug #16526938)

  * Tomcat would fail to stop abandoned connection cleanup
    threads. The fix for Bug#65909 introduced the ability to stop
    daemon threads started by the Connector/J driver but it also
    cleared references from daemon threads to the parent
    classloader. When the clearReferencesStopThreads property is
    set to "true" in context.xml, Tomcat analyzes classloaders to
    detect and stop lost threads. This fix ensures that abandoned
    connection cleanup threads retain a reference to the parent
    classloader. (Bug #68556, Bug #16443387)

  * Producing Connector/J JAR packages in Eclipse using Ant tasks
    would result in a JAR file without compiled class files.
    Compile-related tasks in the Ant script would direct
    compilation targets to the bin directory (for Eclipse
    compatibility), while JAR related tasks were directed to
    {buildDir}/${fullProdName}. This fix changes the JAR task
    reference to ${compiler.output} instead of
    {buildDir}/${fullProdName}. (Bug #68664, Bug #16486957)

  * When connecting to a MySQL 5.6 server, Connector Java will now
    send connection attributes which are exposed in relevant
    PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA tables.  By default, the following attributes
    are sent:

     _client_version: version number of MySQL Connector Java
     _client_name: "MySQL Connector Java"
     _client_license: "commercial" or "GPL", depending on the build used
     _runtime_vendor: JVM vendor name
     _runtime_version: JVM version

    The default attributes may also be augmented with user-defined
    key/value pairs, specified in the new connectionAttributes property
    (ex: connectionAttributes=key1:val1,key2:val2).  The default
    attributes may also be suppressed entirely by setting
    connectionAttributes property to "none".

Thanks,
On behalf of the MySQL/ORACLE Build Team

Hery Ramilison