Dear MySQL users, MySQL Connector/Python 2.1.3 GA is the first GA version of 2.1 release series of the pure Python database driver for MySQL. It can be used for production environments.
MySQL Connector/Python version 2.1.3 GA is compatible with MySQL Server versions 5.5 and greater. Python 2.6 and greater as well as Python 3.3 and greater are supported. Python 2.4, 2.5 and 3.1, 3.2 are not supported. MySQL Connector/Python 2.1.3 is available for download from: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python/#downloads The ChangeLog file included in the distribution contains a brief summary of changes in MySQL Connector/Python 2.1.3. For a more complete list of changes, see below or online at: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-python/en/ Enjoy! Changes in MySQL Connector/Python 2.1.3 (2015-09-24): Functionality Added or Changed * Connector/Python is now compatible with Django 1.8. (Bug #76752, Bug #20987205) Bugs Fixed * When using the C Extension with raise_on_warnings=True, errors were not thrown as exceptions when an executed statement produced an error, and it was not possible to reuse the cursor if the statement produced a result set. (Bug #21536507) * When using the C Extension, character decoding of identifiers (database, table, column names) in result sets could fail. (Bug #21535573) * When using the C Extension with the auth_plugin option, connect() calls failed. (Bug #21529781) * In connections for which consume_results=True, callproc() could hang. (Bug #21492815) * Connections failed if the password began or ended with spaces because they were being stripped before the connection attempt. (Bug #21492428) * Connection failure occurred for accounts authenticated with the sha256_password authentication plugin that had a blank password. (Bug #21420906) * The Connector/Python C Extension could exit when fetching a result set containing many NULL values. (Bug #21420633) * Connector/Python failed to complete the connection handshake with MySQL Server 5.5.8. (Bug #21090014) * RPM packages of Connector/Python were missing some required __init_py__ files. (Bug #77819, Bug #21505096) * Connector/Python hung until timeout if the query it was running was killed. (Bug #76156, Bug #20653441) * Writing to a table with a BinaryField from Django resulted in a UnicodeDecodeError exception. (Bug #75175, Bug #21054559) * Stripping NoneType objects from Django resulted in an AttributeError exception. (Bug #74675, Bug #21054556) Documentation -------------------- Online:http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en/index.html The source distribution includes the manual in various formats under the docs/ folder. Reporting Bugs -------------------- We welcome and appreciate your feedback and bug reports: http://bugs.mysql.com/ Posting in GitHub is in progress and will appear shortly. On Behalf of the MySQL/ORACLE RE Team Hery Ramilison -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql
