Dear MySQL users,
This is the first development release version of MySQL Shell 8.0 (a component of the MySQL Server). The MySQL Shell is provided under Oracle's dual-license. MySQL Shell is an interactive JavaScript, Python and SQL console interface, supporting development and administration for the MySQL Server. It provides scriptable API that supports the creation and management of MySQL InnoDB clusters, as well as a modern fluent CRUD API for the MySQL Document Store. The AdminAPI provides an integrated solution for high availability and scalability using InnoDB based MySQL databases, without requiring advanced MySQL expertise. The Document Store DevAPI enables developers and DBAs to create "schema-less" JSON document collections and perform Create, Update, Read, Delete (CRUD) operations on those collections with little to no knowledge of the SQL language. 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/. Additionally, MySQL Shell provides partial compatibility with the mysql command line client by supporting many of the same command line options. As with the mysql command line, MySQL Shell can also be used to connect to and send SQL commands to pre-5.7.12 versions of the MySQL server using the standard MySQL network protocol. For more information about how to configure and work with an InnoDB cluster see https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/mysql-innodb-cluster-userguide.html 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 full documentation on MySQL Server, MySQL Shell and related topics, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/ If you want to write applications that use the the CRUD based X DevAPI use the latest MySQL Connectors for your language of choice. You can also find documentation about Connectors in the MySQL documentation site. For more information about how to download MySQL Shell 8.0.0 dmr, see the "Development Releases" tab at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/shell/ We welcome and appreciate your feedback and bug reports, see http://bugs.mysql.com/ Enjoy! Changes in MySQL Shell 8.0.0 (2017-07-14, Development Milestone) Functionality Added or Changed * Calling the modify() or remove() function without a parameter caused the function to be executed against the whole collection, which could cause unexpected results such as deleting all rows in a table. To avoid this and make the behavior consistent with update() and delete(), a client-side exception is now thrown if the modify() or remove() function is called without a parameter. Now, to execute the modify() or remove() function against a collection call them with an expression that evaluates to true, for example remove('true') or modify('true'). Bugs Fixed * Executing AdminAPI commands on a server with a version of Python lower than 2.7 was failing without the correct error message. (Bug #25975317) * When using MySQL Shell on Windows any files created or opened, for example those used during dba.createSandboxInstance(), could not be deleted. (Bug #25789094) * The help for dba.configureLocalInstance(instance[, options]) has been improved to describe the returned JSON object. (Bug #25703028) * The options in the MySQL Shell options dictionary are now fully documented. (Bug #25701345) * When using dba.deploySandboxInstance() and passing in sandboxDir, the specified path must not exceed 89 characters. (Bug #25485035) * shell.connect() did not report an error if an invalid argument was used. An ArgumentError is now issued for any invalid argument. The following mutually exclusive pairs of options are now checked, and an error is issued if both are specified: + --password and --dbPassword + --user and --dbUser + --port and --socket (Bug #25268670) References: See also: Bug #24911173. * removeInstance() resulted in unexpected behavior in some cases, for example when an empty password was passed as part of the URI to the instance. (Bug #25111911) * A number of issues with the output of shell.help("prompt") have been corrected. (Bug #25026855, Bug #25242638, Bug #25676343, Bug #25176769) * MySQL Shell now displays an invalid year as 0000, matching the behavior of the MySQL prompt, rather than as 0. (Bug #24912061) * MySQL Shell did not display fractional seconds for values in DATETIME columns. (Bug #24911885) * Creating Classic sessions that connect using Unix sockets now uses the correct defaults such as hostname. This resolves the previous limitation of using Unix sockets to connect to InnoDB cluster instances. See MySQL Shell Connections (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-shell-connections.html) for information on how the defaults are applied to socket connections. (Bug #24848763, Bug #26036466) References: See also: Bug #24911068. * Some issues with the MySQL Shell command line help output were fixed. (Bug #24841749, Bug #24841493, Bug #24910540) * URIs were incorrectly parsed in MySQL Shell when passwords were hidden. (Bug #24793956) * mysqlsh stopped responding if the \source command was given a directory (rather than file) argument. (Bug #23097932, Bug #81060) * On an instance configured as a multi-threaded slave, in other words slave_parallel_workers set to greater than 0, and with slave_parallel_type=DATABASE, dba.checkInstanceConfiguration() was not detecting that the instance was not correctly configured for InnoDB cluster usage. * If removeInstance() failed due to a connection error, an error was reported but the instance was incorrectly removed from the InnoDB cluster metadata, and remained part of the replication group. The fix ensures the metadata is correctly updated according to the result of removeInstance(). * In a situation where a new primary instance was elected, adding a new instance to the cluster resulted in an error due to a failed connection to the previous primary instance. * The functions that modify server variables, such as dba.createCluster() and dba.validateInstance() now provide more information in interactive mode output and log output about server variables which are changed when executed. * Deploying instances to paths with directories that contained spaces was failing without error. Use double backslash to specify such paths, for example D:\\Cluster\\foo bar. * The Cluster object obtained from functions such as dba.createCluster() or dba.getCluster() became unusable once the Shell session in which the object was created is was connected to a different server. The fix modifies the Cluster object so that: + The Cluster object holds an internal reference to the Session from which it was created or retrieved. + AdminAPI functions that modify the Cluster are made using the session referenced by the object. On Behalf of the MySQL/ORACLE RE Team Balasubramanian Kandasamy