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MySQL Shell 8.0.19 for MySQL Server 8.0 and 5.7 has been released
Posted by: Jocelyn Ramilison
Date: January 13, 2020 12:46PM

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


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