Connector/J 1.8.0 Release Notes
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Release date: 11 Feb 2019
MariaDB Connector/J 1.8.0 is a Stable (GA) release.
NOTE: MariaDB Connector/J 1.8.x version is the maintenance version for Java 7. Support for java 6 is dropped
For an overview of MariaDB Connector/J see the About MariaDB Connector/J page
Evolutions
Report issue from 2.3.x 2.4.x to 1.8.0:
[CONJ-675] permit multiple alternative authentication methods for the same user (future MariaDB 10.4 feature)
{CONJ-678] permit indication of truststore/keystore type (JKS/PKCS12), then not relying on java default type
[CONJ-378] GSSAPI: client can provide SPN
[CONJ-667] Support MYSQL_TYPE_JSON datatype
[CONJ-652] faster results buffering socket available
[CONJ-659] improve text performance reading date/time/timestamp resultset
[CONJ-670] ability to Refresh the SSL certificate
[CONJ-642] disable the option "useBulkStmts" by default
Minor changes
[CONJ-628] optimization to read metadata faster
[CONJ-637] java.sql.Driver class implement DriverPropertyInfo[] getPropertyInfo, permitting listing options on querying tools
[CONJ-641] update maven test dependencies for java 10 compatibility
[CONJ-643] PreparedStatement::getParameterMetaData always returns VARSTRING as type, resulting in downstream libraries interpreting values wrongly
[CONJ-623] Increase connection logging when the Primary node connection fails
[CONJ-384] Add option permit having "affected" or "found" rows
h3. Bugfixes
[CONJ-646] possible NullPointerException when the connection is lost to the database using aurora configuration with one node
[CONJ-672] batch using multi-send can hang when using query timeout
[CONJ-544] disable SSL session resumption when using SSL
[CONJ-589] correcting Clob.length() for utf8mb4
[CONJ-649] datasource connectTimeout URL parameter is not honoured
[CONJ-650] Correction on resultset.getObject(columnName, byte[].class) when value is NULL
[CONJ-665] old MySQL (<5.5.3) doesn't support utf8mb4, using utf8 on 3 bytes as connection charset by default
[CONJ-671] MariaDb bulk threads occupy full cpu(99%) while db connections broken
[CONJ-673] aborting a connection while fetching a query still reads the whole resultset
[CONJ-669] SQLSyntaxErrorException when querying on an empty column name
[CONJ-674] make dumpQueriesOnException = false by default as per documentation
[CONJ-616] correction on possible NPE on getConnection when using failover configuration and the master is down, not throwing a proper exception
[CONJ-636] Error in batch might throw a NPE and not the proper Exception
[CONJ-624] MariaDbPoolDataSource possible NPE on configuration getter
[CONJ-622] The option "connectTimeout" must take into account DriverManager.getLoginTimeout() when set
[CONJ-621] wrong escaping when having curly brackets in table/field name
[CONJ-618] Client preparestatement parsing error on escaped ' / " in query
[CONJ-644] small optimization when validating Galera connection
[CONJ-625] add coverage test
[CONJ-654] DatabaseMetaData.getDriverName() returns connector/J with a lowercase c
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