Dear MySQL users,
MySQL Shell 8.0.20 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 8.0.20.
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 and InnoDB
ReplicaSet, providing integrated solutions 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 and MySQL InnoDB ReplicaSet 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 8.0.20, 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 8.0.20 (2020-04-27, General Availability)
* AdminAPI Added or Changed Functionality
* AdminAPI Bugs Fixed
* Functionality Added or Changed
* Bugs Fixed
AdminAPI Added or Changed Functionality
* MySQL Shell now enables you to create and configure the
MySQL user accounts required by InnoDB cluster, InnoDB
ReplicaSet, and MySQL Router using AdminAPI operations.
Previously, accounts required by InnoDB cluster and
InnoDB ReplicaSet had to be configured using the
clusterAdmin option, and accounts required by MySQL
Router had to be configured manually using SQL. The
following AdminAPI operations are now available:
+ use Cluster.setupAdminAccount(user, [options]) and
Replicaset.setupAdminAccount(user, [options]) to
configure a MySQL user account with the necessary
privileges to administer an InnoDB cluster or InnoDB
ReplicaSet.
+ use Cluster.setupRouterAccount(user, [options]) and
Replicaset.setupRouterAccount(user, [options]) to
create a MySQL user account or upgrade an existing
account so that it that can be used by MySQL Router
to operate on an InnoDB cluster or InnoDB
ReplicaSet. This is now the recommended method of
adding MySQL Router accounts to use with InnoDB
cluster and InnoDB ReplicaSet.
* AdminAPI now uses a locking mechanism to avoid different
operations from performing changes on an InnoDB
ReplicaSet simultaneously. Previously, different
instances of MySQL Shell could connect to an InnoDB
ReplicaSet at the same time and execute AdminAPI
operations simultaneously. This could lead to
inconsistent instance states and errors, for example if
ReplicaSet.addInstance() and ReplicaSet.setPrimary() were
executed in parallel.
Now, the InnoDB ReplicaSet operations have the following
locking:
+ dba.upgradeMetadata() and dba.createReplicaSet() are
globally exclusive operations. This means that if
MySQL Shell executes these operations on an InnoDB
ReplicaSet, no other operations can be executed
against the InnoDB ReplicaSet or any of its
instances.
+ ReplicaSet.forcePrimaryInstance() and
ReplicaSet.setPrimaryInstance() are operations that
change the primary. This means that if MySQL Shell
executes these operations against an InnoDB
ReplicaSet, no other operations which change the
primary, or instance change operations can be
executed until the first operation completes.
+ ReplicaSet.addInstance(),
ReplicaSet.rejoinInstance(), and
ReplicaSet.removeInstance() are operations that
change an instance. This means that if MySQL Shell
executes these operations on an instance, the
instance is locked for any further instance change
operations. However, this lock is only at the
instance level and multiple instances in an InnoDB
ReplicaSet can each execute one of this type of
operation simultaneously. In other words, at most
one instance change operation can be executed at a
time, per instance in the InnoDB ReplicaSet.
+ dba.getReplicaSet() and ReplicaSet.status() are
InnoDB ReplicaSet read operations and do not require
any locking.
References: See also: Bug #30349849.
* Use the –replicaset option to configure MySQL Shell to
work with an InnoDB ReplicaSet at start up. You must
specify a connection to a replica set instance for this
option to work correctly. If a replica set is found, this
option populates the rs global object, which can then be
used to work with the InnoDB ReplicaSet. As part of this
addition, the –redirect-primary and –redirect-secondary
options have been updated to also work with InnoDB
ReplicaSet.
When running MySQL Shell, use the
shell.connectToPrimary([connectionData, password]) to
check whether the target instance belongs to an InnoDB
cluster or InnoDB ReplicaSet. If so, MySQL Shell opens a
new session to the primary, sets the global session to
the established session and returns it. If no
connectionData is provided, the current global session is
used.
AdminAPI Bugs Fixed
* During distributed recovery which is using MySQL Clone,
the instance restarts after the data files are cloned,
but if the instance has to apply a large back log of
transactions to finish the recovery process, then the
restart process could take longer than the default 1
minute timeout. Now, when there is a large back log use
the dba.restartWaitTimeout option to configure a longer
timeout to ensure the apply process has time to process
the transactions. (Bug #30866632)
* The dba.deleteSandboxInstance() operation did not provide
an error if you attempted to delete a sandbox which did
not exist. Now, in such a situation the
dba.deleteSandboxInstance() operation throws a
runtimeError. (Bug #30863587)
* The Cluster.forceQuorumUsingPartitionOf() operation was
not stopping Group Replication on any reachable instances
that were not part of the visible membership of the
target instance, which could lead to undefined behavior
if any of those instances were automatically rejoining
the cluster. The fix stops Group Replication on any
reachable instances that are not included in the new
forced quorum membership. (Bug #30739252)
* It was possible for AdminAPI to select an invalidated
instance as the latest primary, despite it having a lower
view_id. This was because the process of getting the
primary of the InnoDB ReplicaSet was incorrectly
reconnecting to an invalidated member if it was the last
instance in the InnoDB ReplicaSet. (Bug #30735124)
* When a cluster that was created with a MySQL Shell
version lower than 8.0.19 was offline (for example after
a server upgrade of the instances), if you then used
MySQL Shell 8.0.19 to connect to the cluster,
dba.upgradeMetadata() and
dba.rebootClusterFromCompleteOutage() blocked each other.
You could not run dba.upgradeMetadata() because it
requires dba.rebootClusterFromCompleteOutage() to be run
first to bring the cluster back online. And you could not
run dba.rebootClusterFromCompleteOutage() because
dba.upgradeMetadata() had not been run. To avoid this
problem please upgrade to MySQL Shell 8.0.20, where the
preconditions for dba.rebootClusterFromCompleteOutage()
and dba.forceQuorumUsingPartitionOf() have been updated
to ensure they are compatible with clusters created using
earlier versions. In other words, they are available even
if the metadata was created using an older MySQL Shell
version. (Bug #30661129)
* Using MySQL Clone as the distributed recovery method to
add an instance to an InnoDB ReplicaSet resulted in a
segmentation fault if the target instance did not support
RESTART. Now, the ReplicaSet.addInstance() operation
aborts in such a situation and reverts changes after the
connection timeout limit is reached. This is because the
add operation needs to connect to the target instance to
finish the operation. In such a situation, if it is not
possible to upgrade the instance to a version of MySQL
which supports RESTART, you have to restart the server
manually, and then issue ReplicaSet.addInstance() again
to retry. The retry can then use incremental recovery,
which does not trigger the clone and the subsequent
restart. (Bug #30657911)
* Cluster.addInstance() normally fails if there are errant
GTIDs in the added instance, but if MySQL Clone is being
used for distributed recovery, that check is bypassed
because the cloning process fixes the problem. However,
if all members are using IPv6, MySQL Clone cannot be
used, so incremental recovery is used instead. In such a
situation, the instance was being added to the cluster
without errors, but the errant transaction persisted.
Now, if all of the cluster’s online instances are using
IPv6 addresses and the operation tries to use MySQL Clone
for distributed recovery, an error is thrown. (Bug
#30645697)
* When an InnoDB cluster or InnoDB ReplicaSet is using the
MySQL Clone plugin, AdminAPI ensures the
performance_schema.clone_status table is cleared out when
the clone process starts. However, in some rare and very
specific scenarios a race condition could happen and the
clone operation was considered to be running before
actually clearing out the table. In this situation, the
MySQL Shell clone monitoring could result in an
unexpected halt.
As part of this fix, a potential infinite loop in the
clone monitoring phase that could happen very rarely when
the cloning process was extremely fast has also been
fixed. (Bug #30645665)
* Group Replication system variable queries were being
executed early, without considering whether the Group
Replication plugin was installed yet. Now, the reboot
operation has been fixed so that if system variable
queries fail with ER_UNKNOWN_SYSTEM_VARIABLE then the
Group Replication plugin is installed automatically. (Bug
#30531848)
* The Cluster.removeInstance(instance) operation was not
correctly handling the following cases:
+ if the instance had report_host set to a different
value from the instance_name in the metadata,
specifying the instance using its IP failed.
+ if the instance was unreachable, it was not possible
to remove it if the given address did not match the
address in the metadata.
+ when an instance was OFFLINE but reachable (for
example because Group Replication stopped but the
server was still running),
Cluster.removeInstance(instance) failed. Now, in
such a situation, if you are sure it is safe to
remove the instance, use the force=true option,
which means that synchronization is no longer
attempted as part of the remove operation.
+ if the instance was OFFLINE but reachable, removing
the instance through an address that did not match
what was in the metadata would make the operation
appear to succeed but the instance was not actually
removed from the metadata.
(Bug #30501628, Bug #30625424)
* After operations such as removing an instance or
dissolving a cluster, the group_replication_recovery and
group_replication_applier replication channels were not
being removed. (Bug #29922719, Bug #30878446)
* The default location of the MySQL option file, for
example /etc/my.cnf, stopped being detected by the
dba.configureInstance() operation on some platforms
(Debian and so on). This was a regression. The fix
ensures that the predefined paths to option files matches
the defaults, such as /etc/my.cnf and /etc/mysql/my.cnf.
(Bug #96490, Bug #30171324)
Functionality Added or Changed
* A new method shell.openSession is provided in the shell
global object to let you create and return a session
object, rather than set it as the global session for
MySQL Shell.
* You can now request compression for MySQL Shell
connections that use X Protocol, as well as those that
use classic MySQL protocol. For X Protocol connections,
the default is that compression is requested, and
uncompressed connections are allowed if the negotiations
for a compressed connection do not succeed. For classic
MySQL protocol connections, the default is that
compression is disabled. After the connection has been
made, the MySQL Shell \status command shows whether or
not compression is in use for a session.
New compression controls in MySQL Shell let you specify
in the connection parameters whether compression is
required, preferred, or disabled, select compression
algorithms for the connection, and specify a numeric
compression level for the algorithms.
Bugs Fixed
* When you create an extension object for MySQL Shell, the
options key is no longer required when you specify a
parameter of the data type “dictionary”. If you do define
options for a dictionary, MySQL Shell validates the
options specified by the end user and raises an error if
an option is passed to the function that is not in this
list. If you create a dictionary with no list of options,
any options that the end user specifies for the
dictionary are passed directly through to the function by
MySQL Shell with no validation. (Bug #30986260)
* A bug in MySQL Shell 8.0.19, affecting classic MySQL
protocol connections only, meant that access was denied
if a user had stored the connection’s password with MySQL
Shell and afterwards changed it. The password store now
removes invalid passwords and presents the user with a
password prompt as expected. (Bug #30912984, Bug #98503)
* When MySQL Shell’s \source command was used in
interactive mode to execute code from a script file,
multi-line SQL statements in the script file could cause
MySQL Shell to enter a loop of repeatedly executing the
script. The issue has now been fixed. (Bug #30906751, Bug
#98625)
* If a stored procedure was called in MySQL Shell but its
result was not used, any subsequent SQL statement
returned a result set error, and exiting MySQL Shell at
that point resulted in an incorrect shutdown. MySQL Shell
cleared the first result set retrieved by a stored
procedure in order to run a subsequent SQL statement, but
did not check for any additional result sets that had
been retrieved, which were left behind and caused the
error. This check is now carried out and the additional
result sets are discarded before another statement is
executed. (Bug #30825330)
* Due to a regression in MySQL Shell 8.0.19, the upgrade
checker utility checkForServerUpgrade() did not accept
any runtime options if connection data was not provided
as the first argument. The issue has been fixed and the
utility’s argument checking has been enhanced. (Bug
#30689606)
* MySQL Shell, which now bundles Python 3.7.4, could not be
built from source with Python 3.8. The incompatibilities
have now been corrected so Python 3.8 may be used. (Bug
#30640012)
* MySQL Shell’s upgrade checker utility
checkForServerUpgrade() did not flag removed system
variables that were specified using hyphens rather than
underscores. The utility also now continues with its
sequence of checks if a permissions check cannot be
performed at the required time. (Bug #30615030, Bug
#97855)
* MySQL Shell’s \status command showed that a connection
was compressed if the connection had been created while
starting MySQL Shell, but not if it was created after
starting MySQL Shell. Compression is now shown in both
cases. (Bug #29006903)
On Behalf of Oracle/MySQL Release Engineering Team,
Sreedhar S
MySQL Shell 8.0.20 for MySQL Server 8.0 and 5.7 has been released
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