Re: MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.2.6 has been released

no binaries for AIX?

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saqib
http://hivemined.net


On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Kent Boortz <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Dear MySQL users,
>
> MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.2.6, 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
>
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/5.2.html&k=2a4Akkj3oY%2FOkjwft1MTMw%3D%3D%0A&r=87QPkuwxTJwqBO%2Bh4edD4j3tpM%2BFzlMhKOz%2B9QNZPGo%3D%0A&m=L%2FgKYklRPKzhryVewvSQf1uRAbXq8OAWOmVW6e%2Fr%2Bg4%3D%0A&s=9074990ebf9e3277c9367db7b7881d214e8cf4ff3ca73847e2cab5b90b167d9c
>
> MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.2.6 will also be available for downloads via the
> Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in approximately 1-2 weeks.
>
> For information on installing, please see the documentation at
>
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/connector-odbc-installation.html&k=2a4Akkj3oY%2FOkjwft1MTMw%3D%3D%0A&r=87QPkuwxTJwqBO%2Bh4edD4j3tpM%2BFzlMhKOz%2B9QNZPGo%3D%0A&m=L%2FgKYklRPKzhryVewvSQf1uRAbXq8OAWOmVW6e%2Fr%2Bg4%3D%0A&s=544722c0f324655dcf7be180c365423e7cbdb91c9de221f2ef29cbd0ef2ed2dc
>
> Enjoy!
>
> The MySQL Connectors team at Oracle
>
>
>
> ==============================================================================
> Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.2.6
>
> Functionality Added or Changed
>
>   * Added a lock in the ENV structure against simultaneous accesses to
>     an environment handle's connection list, in order to avoid memory
>     access issues that might occur when multiple threads share the same
>     environment handle. (Bug #17240611, Bug #69864)
>
> Bugs Fixed
>
>   * Memory leaks occurred in SQLPrepare() and SQLExecDirect() when
>     SQLBindParamater was used on the SQL statements. This fix frees
>     previous results of mysql_stmt_result_metadata() in order to prevent
>     the memory leaks. (Bug #17400483, Bug #70113)
>
>   * The exit condition for a for loop in stringutil.c is changed to
>     avoid a possible out-of-bounds error and the associated reports by
>     Valgrind. (Bug #17397596, Bug #64105)
>
>   * Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 crashed when reading rows from any
>     table in Server Explorer with connections to DSNs made by
>     Connector/ODBC. (Bug #17304031, Bug #69950)
>
>   * When SQL TIME data was converted to the C data type of TIMESTAMP, if
>     the value of the hour field is greater than 24, the date fields did
>     not get set to the current date and the fraction field for seconds
>     did not get set to zero as required by the ODBC specifications.
>     (Bug #17016839, Bug #69545)
>
>   * When trying to create a linked server in Micrsoft SQL Server 2008 to
>     a MySQL server set up with Connector/ODBC as a DSN, the Microsoft
>     SQL Server (if it is a 64-bit version) crashed or the linked server
>     suffered a catastrophic failure (if a 32-bit version of the
>     Microsoft SQL Server is used). (Bug #16604346, Bug #63386)
>
>   * When reading TIME column data using the SQLGetData method into the
>     SQL_C_TYPE_TIME datatype, errors occured when the time string
>     contained more than 6-digits (e.g., 120:53:44).
>     (Bug #16176981, Bug #67793)
>
>   * When called after SQLPrepare, the funciton SQLMoreResults returned
>     SQL_ERROR, instead of SQL_NO_DATA as required by the ODBC
>     specification. (Bug #16101282, Bug #67920)
>
>   * Connector/ODBC used the ";" character instead of a null byte ("\0")
>     to terminate keyword-value pairs in attribute strings.
>     (Bug #15940689, Bug #66548)
>
>   * When using the Unicode-enabled version of the Connector/ODBC driver
>     to connect to any MySQL server of version 5.5.2 or older, all
>     statements failed with the error message .Server does not support
>     4-byte encoded UTF8 characters.. (Bug #14838690, Bug #67428)
>
>   * The configured values of a DSN's parameters overrode the values
>     provided through the connection string, instead of the other way
>     round. (Bug #11760574, Bug #52996)
>
>
> Built against the MySQL server 5.6.14 client library.
>
> --
> Kent Boortz, Release Staff engineer
> Oracle, The MySQL Team
> Mobile: +46 76 77 69 049
>
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