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MySQL Connector/J 8.0.16 has been released
Posted on Apr 25, 2019 by MySQL Release Engineering
Category: Release Announcements
Tags: connectors, connector, connector-j

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/J Version 8.0.16 is the GA release of the 8.0
branch of MySQL Connector/J. It is suitable for use with MySQL Server
versions 8.0, 5.7 and 5.6. 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-8-0-16.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 8.0.16 GA, see the “Generally Available
(GA) Releases” tab at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/

Enjoy!

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Changes in MySQL Connector/J 8.0.16 (2019-04-25, General Availability)

Functionality Added or Changed

* X DevAPI: Added BigInteger, BigDecimal, and Character as
supported classes whose instances can be passed to a
Table as Expression instances. Also made the error
message clearer when applications try to pass instances
of unsupported classes. (Bug #25650912)

* X DevAPI: Connector/J now supports the ability to send
connection attributes
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/performance-schema-connection-attribute-tables.html)
(key-value pairs that application programs can pass to the
server at connect time) for X Protocol connections.
Connector/J defines a default set of attributes
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/performance-schema-connection-attribute-tables.html#performance-schema-connection-attributes-cj),
which can be disabled or enabled. In addition,
applications can specify attributes to be
passed in addition to the default attributes. The default
behavior is to send the default attribute set. See the
description for the new configuration property
xdevapi.connect-attributes for details.
Note
The aggregate size of connection attribute data sent by a
client is limited by the value of the
performance_schema_session_connect_attrs_size server
variable. The total size of the data package should be
less than the value of the server variable, or the
attribute data will be truncated.

* X DevAPI: When using X DevAPI, performance for statements
that are executed repeatedly (two or more times) is
improved by using server-side prepared statements for the
second and subsequent executions. See Working with
Prepared Statements
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/working-with-prepared-statements.html)
in the X DevAPI User Guide
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/) for details.

* The version number has been removed from the name of the
Connector/J JAR archive within the RPM packages for
Connector/J. That makes upgrading Connector/J with RPM
packages easier. (Bug #29384853)

* The collation utf8mb4_zh_0900_as_cs has been added to the
CharsetMapping class. (Bug #29244101)

* The following third-party libraries have been removed
from the distribution bundles for Connector/J:

+ Google protobuf for Java (required for using X
DevAPI and for building Connector/J from source)

+ C3P0 (required for building Connector/J from source)

+ JBoss common JDBC wrapper (required for building
Connector/J from source)

+ Simple Logging Facade API (required for using the
logging capabilities provided by the default
implementation of org.slf4j.Logger.Slf4JLogger by
Connector/J, and for building Connector/J from
source)
Users who need those libraries have to obtain them on
their own. See Installing Connector/J from a Binary
Distribution
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-j/8.0/en/connector-j-binary-installation.html)
and Installing from Source
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-j/8.0/en/connector-j-installing-source.html)
for details.

Bugs Fixed

* X DevAPI: The method unquoteWorkaround() has been removed
from the ExprParser class, as the workaround is no longer
needed, and it actually produced wrong results in some
cases. (Bug #29257922)

* X DevAPI: Connector/J threw an error when a JSON document
contained only a field with an empty array as its value.
With this fix, Connector/J now takes that as a valid JSON
document. (Bug #28834959, Bug #92819)

* getByte() calls failed on table columns of the
BINARY data type. This was due to issues with string
conversion, which has been corrected with this fix. (Bug
#25650385)

* X DevAPI: Any statements sent after a failed procedure
call caused Connector/J to hang. This was because after
the failed call, Connector/J was not aware that the
result streamer had already been closed by the server.
With this fix, an error is thrown when the procedure call
fails, and the result streamer is nullified. (Bug
#22038729)

* X DevAPI: Unary negative and positive operators inside
expressions were parsed wrongly as binary minus and plus
operators. (Bug #21921956)

* Because the SHOW PROCESSLIST
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/show-processlist.html)
statement might cause the server to fail sometimes,
Connector/J now avoids using the statement, but queries
the performance scheme instead for the information it
needs. (Bug #29329326)

* Some unnecessary information has been removed from the
Connector/J log. (Bug #29318273)

* In the DatabaseMetaDataUsingInfoSchema interface, the
getProcedureColumns() and getFunctionColumns() methods
returned wrong results for the PRECISION column, and the
getColumns() and getVersionColumns() methods returned
wrong results for the COLUMN_SIZE column. The errors were
due to the wrong handling of the temporal type precision
by Connector/J, which has now been fixed. (Bug #29186870)

* For an SSL connection, after a client disconnected from a
server by calling Connection.close(), the TCP connection
remained in the TIME_WAIT
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/can-not-connect-to-server.html)
state on the server side. With this fix,
the connection remains in the TIME_WAIT
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/can-not-connect-to-server.html)
state on the client side instead, in most
cases. (Bug #29054329, Bug #93590)

* The function
LoadBalancedConnectionProxy.getGlobalBlacklist() always
returned an empty map, thus there was never a blacklist
for load-balanced connections. (Bug #28860051, Bug
#93007)

* The redundant file, changelog.gz, has been removed from
the Debian 9 package for Connector/J. The file repeated
the contents of the CHANGES.gz file. (Bug #27786499)

* Using getBytes() to retrieve TEXT data resulted in a
NumberFormatException. With this fix, the proper
exception (SQLDataException), is now thrown. (Bug
#27784363)

* A changeUser() call failed with a java.io.IOException
when the configuration property enablePacketDebug was set
to true for a connection. (Bug #25642021)

* bindings.getBoolean() always returned false. It was due
to a mishandling of data types, which has been corrected
with this fix. (Bug #22931700)

Enjoy and thanks for the support!

On Behalf of MySQL/ORACLE RE Team
Sreedhar S

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