Changes in MySQL Installer 1.6.11 (2024-05-29)

Important

MySQL Server 8.0.38 is no longer available for download. It was removed due to a critical issue that could stop the server from restarting following the creation of a very large number of tables (8001, or more). See MySQL 8.0.38 Release Notes. Please upgrade to MySQL 8.0.39 instead. The following products are also no longer available for download due to dependencies on that version of the server:

• MySQL Shell 8.0.38

• MySQL Router 8.0.38

• MySQL Workbench 8.0.38

Please upgrade to version 8.0.39 of those products instead.

Bugs Fixed

• Removed download support for all connectors. The Installer still detects existing connector installations and allows uninstalling them, but they cannot be installed or upgraded.

  Instead, install and upgrade each connector from the MySQL Downloads page. The latest MySQL connector version supports all active MySQL Server versions. For example, MySQL Connector/Python 9.0.0 supports and is recommended for MySQL 8.0, 8.4, and 9.0. (Bug #36638573)

• Removed download support for product versions that reached End of Life (EoL), including: MySQL Server 5.7 and earlier, MySQL Shell 1.0, MySQL Router 2.x, MySQL NDB Cluster 7.4 and earlier, MySQL Cluster Manager 1.x, MySQL Enterprise Backup 4.1 and earlier, MySQL Utilities, MySQL Workbench 6.3 and earlier, MySQL Enterprise Monitor 4.0 and earlier, MySQL Notifier, MySQL for Excel, MySQL for Visual Studio, and documentation specific to the EoL versions. (Bug #36632267)

• The Removing Windows Firewall step would fail if the my.ini file was missing a mysqlx_port definition. (Bug #36525859)

• Fixed the authentication method that MySQL Installer uses for accessing the My Oracle Support (MOS) website to permit downloading commercial MySQL products, which incorrectly parsed special characters in the Single Sign On (SSO) password. (Bug #36410084)

• MySQL Installer could not upgrade from MySQL Server 8.0.0-8.0.11 as the MSI for those versions remove the Windows MySQL service during an upgrade or uninstall operation. Now MySQL Installer shows the Windows service configuration page during an upgrade from these old MySQL versions, and provides an option to either create the Windows service or proceed with the server being run as a process. (Bug #36316267)

• The status indicator for the product removal selector would not update under certain conditions. (Bug #31547419)

• Clicking the [X] close button on a wizard's page now yields a confirmation popup if the wizard is busy executing an operation. (Bug #30045277)

• The server_type variable was removed from the generated MySQL Server configuration file, because it was only relevant to MySQL Installer. This information is now stored in the MySQL Installer settings-{license}.xml file. (Bug #114010, Bug #36305294)