Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/J Version 8.0.11 is the first General Availability
release of the 8.0 series of MySQL Connector/J. It is suitable for use
with MySQL Server versions 8.0, 5.7, 5.6, and 5.5. It supports the
Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) 4.2 API, and implements the X DevAPI.

This release includes the following new features and changes, also
described in more detail on

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-j/8.0/en/news-8-0-11.html

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.

To download MySQL Connector/J 8.0.11 GA, see the “Generally Available (GA)
Releases” tab at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/

Enjoy!

Changes in MySQL Connector/J 8.0.11   (2018-04-19)

Functionality Added or Changed

* X DevAPI: The locking options lockShared() and
lockExclusive(), available when retrieving data from
collection.find() and table.select(), now also accept an
optional locking contention value, which is exposed
though the enumeration Statement.LockContention. The
combinations of lockShared([lockCont]) or
lockExclusive([lockCont]) with
Statement.LockContention.NOWAIT or
Statement.LockContention.SKIP_LOCKED map directly to the
SQL statement SELECT … FOR SHARE or SELECT … FOR
UPDATE with the SQL option NOWAIT or SKIP LOCKED, for the
different InnoDB locking read modes.

* X DevAPI: Connector/J now supports the new server-side
document ID generation feature. Client-side document ID
generation is no longer supported. As a result, the
methods getDocumentId() and getDocumentIds() have been
removed and the method getGeneratedIds() has been added
to the AddResult and AddResultImpl classes.

* X DevAPI: The SHA256_MEMORY authentication mechanism is
now supported by Connector/J for connections using the X
Protocol. See the entry for the connection property
xdevapi.auth in Configuration Properties
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-j/8.0/en/connector-j
-reference-configuration-properties.html) for details.

* Connector/J now recognizes the data type GEOMCOLLECTION,
which has been introduced in MySQL 8.0.11 as an alias and
preferred name to the previously known GEOMETRYCOLLECTION
data type. (Bug #27678308)

* Connector/J now supports the use of a custom
SSLSocketFactory for returning a custom-constructed SSL
socket at the time of connection establishment. (Bug
#26092824, Bug #86278)

* The source directory and Java package layouts of
Connector/J have been revised to make it easier to use
custom protocols, APIs, value decoders, and value
factories with Connector/J. See the Connector/J source
code and the MySQL Connector/J X DevAPI Reference
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-j) for more
details.

Bugs Fixed

* When an integer value in a JSON document is modified, it
becomes a a DOUBLE value to the MySQL server, which is
returned with a decimal when fetched from the JSON
document. Therefore, calling getInteger() upon the
changed value with Connector/J resulted in an
NumberFormatException. With this fix, getInteger() parses
such a value correctly and returns an integer. (Bug
#27226293)

On Behalf of Oracle/MySQL Release Engineering Team
Sreedhar