Connector/R2DBC 1.2.0 Release Notes

Overview

MariaDB Connector/R2DBC is a non-blocking interface between Java applications and MariaDB Server. MariaDB Connector/R2DBC enables the development of Java 8+ applications for MariaDB database products.

MariaDB Connector/R2DBC 1.2.0 was released on 2024-02-23. This release is of GA (generally available) maturity. It is compatible with MariaDB Connector/R2DBC 1.1 and will therefore also be the maintenance path for version 1.1. This release is compatible with R2DBC 1.0.0 specification.

Notable Changes

• New timezone option ()

  • The new timezone option can have 3 types of values:

    • disabled (default) : connector doesn't change timezone

    • auto : connector will set timezone connection variable to java default timezone

r2dbc:mariadb://user:pwd@localhost:3306/db?timezone=+5:00r2dbc:mariadb://user:pwd@localhost:3306/db?timezone=autor2dbc:mariadb://user:pwd@localhost:3306/db?timezone=America/New_York

• The recommended setting for timezone is auto.

• Add support for connection redirection ()

  • With MariaDB Community Server 11.3.1 a new global variable redirect_url value has been added, supported format:

• When set, all existing connections will be redirected to the designated URL values when appropriate. A connection will only be redirected when no transaction is active.

• Example for enabling the redirection:

• The redirection feature is enabled by default. It can be disabled by setting the new option permitRedirect to FALSE, which will result in ignoring the redirection URL.

Issues Fixed

• Properly end connection (in place of RST TCP packet) ()

• Failover High availability mode r2dbc:mariadb:[sequential|loadbalancing]:... wrongly parsed ()

• Compatibility with ()

• Java 8 compatibility regression ()

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