A new connection option
ssl_verify_cert
checks the SSL certificate for the server against the certificate found in the file specified by thessl_ca
option. This option is disabled by default. Any certificate mismatch of invalid combination of SSL options will raise aValueError
exception. (Bug #16400735)Connector/Python now supports the
LOCAL
keyword forLOAD DATA LOCAL
. (Bug #16369511, Bug #16736916)The
MySQLConnection.cmd_shutdown()
method now accepts an optional shutdown type. A newShutdownType
constants class was added. (Bug #16234441)The GPL Connector/Python packages contained non-GPL documentation. This could be an issue when Linux distributions would like to repackage. PDF and other documentation formats now are removed from the GPL packages, which point in the
README_DOCS.txt
file to online availability of the manual. (Bug #68509, Bug #16430013)