Changes in MySQL Shell 8.0.42 (2025-04-15, General Availability)

• Utilities Added or Changed Functionality

• Utilities Bugs Fixed

• Bugs Fixed

Utilities Added or Changed Functionality

• The mysql_option_tracker_persister role is now excluded from the dump when ocimds: true and is excluded when loading a dump into a MySQL HeatWave DB System. (Bug #37457569)

Utilities Bugs Fixed

• Dump and load operations failed randomly due to a bug in the bundled Curl package.

  Curl is upgraded to 8.12.1 in this release. (Bug #37576066)

Bugs Fixed

• Under certain circumstances MySQL Shell could crash during auto-completion on options such as shell.options.history.auto. (Bug #37528585)