Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/ODBC 8.0.11 is the first GA version of the MySQL Connector/ODBC 8.0 series, the ODBC driver for the MySQL database management system.

The available downloads include both a Unicode driver and an ANSI driver based on the same modern codebase. Please select the driver type you need based on the type of your application – Unicode or ANSI. Server-side prepared statements are enabled by default. It is suitable for use with any MySQL server version from 5.5.

This release of the MySQL ODBC driver is conforming to the ODBC 3.8 specification. It contains implementations of key 3.8 features, including self-identification as a ODBC 3.8 driver, streaming of output parameters (supported for binary types only), and support of the SQL_ATTR_RESET_CONNECTION connection attribute (for the Unicode driver only).

Also, Connector/ODBC 8.0 has a GTK+-based setup library providing a GUI DSN setup dialog on some Unix-based systems, currently included in the Debian 9, EL6/OL6 (64-bit only), EL7/OL7 (64-bit only), Fedora 26/27, FreeBSD 11, SLES 12, and Ubuntu 14/16/17 packages.

The release is now available in source and binary form for a number of platforms from our download pages at

https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/

For information on installing, please see the documentation at

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-odbc/en/connector-odbc-installation.html

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

MySQL Connectors and other MySQL client tools and applications now synchronize the first digit of their version number with the (highest) MySQL server version they support. This change makes it easy and intuitive to decide which client version to use for which server version.

Connector/ODBC 8.0.11 is the first release to use the new numbering. It was branched from Connector/ODBC 5.3.10.

The Connector/ODBC 8.0 series also adds full MySQL Server 8.0 support.

Functionality Added or Changed

• Connector/ODBC now supports a new GET_SERVER_PUBLIC_KEY connection option that enables requesting the RSA public key from the server. For accounts that use the caching_sha2_password or sha256_password authentication plugin, this key can be used during the connection process for RSA key-pair based password exchange with TLS disabled. This capability requires a MySQL 8.0 or higher server, and is supported only for Connector/ODBC built using OpenSSL.
• A new OpenSSL runtime dependency was added that must be present on the target system where the connector is used. For some platforms it is assumed that a system-wide OpenSSL is available, for others, such as Windows and macOS, these required OpenSSL libraries are bundled in the binary packages.
• Packaging was modified for the new MySQL Connector/ODBC 8 series. For example, the Connector/ODBC 5.x ODBC driver has a file named myodbc5w.dll, whereas this same ODBC 8.0 driver is named myodbc8w.dll for the Connector/ODBC 8.x series. The sample .ini file also references these new file names.

On Behalf of Oracle/MySQL Release Engineering Team,
Kent Boortz