Dear MySQL users, MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.2.4, a new version of the ODBC driver for the MySQL database management system, has been released.
The available downloads include both a Unicode driver and an ANSI driver based on the same modern codebase. Please select 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 version since 4.1 (It will not work with 4.0 or earlier releases.) The release is now available in source and binary form for a number of platforms from our download pages at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/5.2.html For information on installing, please see the documentation at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/connector-odbc-installation.html Enjoy! The MySQL build team at Oracle ============================================================================== Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.2.4 (5 February, 2013) This release fixes any bugs encountered since Connector/ODBC 5.2.3. Its main focus is on compatibility with the latest features of MySQL 5.6. Functionality Added or Changed * The new connection option can_handle_exp_pwd indicates that your application includes error-handling logic to deal with the error code for an expired password. See Connector/ODBC Connection Parameters (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/connector-odbc-configu ration-connection-parameters.html) for the details of this connection option and the associated SQL state and native error code. See ALTER USER Syntax (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/alter-user.html) for details about password expiration for MySQL server accounts. This new option is added to the Windows GUI, through a checkbox Can Handle Expired Password on the Connection tab of the Details dialog. * The following reserved words were added to the list returned by the SQLGetInfo() ODBC function, for compatibility with the latest MySQL 5.6 syntax: + GET + IO_AFTER_GTIDS + IO_BEFORE_GTIDS + MASTER_BIND + ONE_SHOT + PARTITION + SQL_AFTER_GTIDS + SQL_BEFORE_GTIDS Bugs Fixed * When a column with type TINYTEXT, TEXT, MEDIUMTEXT, or LONGTEXT was retrieved from a table with a binary collation, the text fields were converted to a hexadecimal representation, even though these values were not really BLOBs. The unnecessary conversion could expand the data, causing overflow problems when storing the result values. (Bug #11746572, Bug #27282) Thanks, RE Team. -- Kent Boortz, Release Staff engineer Oracle, The MySQL Team Mobile: +46 76 77 69 049 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql
