MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.3.10 has been released

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.3.10, 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 the 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 from 5.5.

This is the fifth release of the MySQL ODBC driver conforming to the
ODBC 3.8 specification. It contains implementations of key 3.8 features,
including self-identification as a ODBC 3.8 driver, streaming of output
parameters (supported for binary types only), and support of the
SQL_ATTR_RESET_CONNECTION connection attribute (for the Unicode driver
only).

Also, Connector/ODBC 5.3 introduces a GTK+-based setup library
providing a GUI DSN setup dialog on some Unix-based systems, currently
included in the Debian 7/8/9, EL6/OL6, EL7/OL7 (64-bit only), Fedora 
24/25/26,
FreeBSD 10/11, SLES 12, Ubuntu 14/16/17 packages. Other new
features in the 5.3 driver are FileDSN and Bookmarks support.

The release is now available in source and binary form for a number of
platforms from our download pages at

    http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/5.3.html

For information on installing, please see the documentation at

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-odbc/en/connector-odbc-installation.html

Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.3.10 (2018-01-30, General
Availability)

    Functionality Added or Changed

      * SQL query timeout (SQL_ATTR_QUERY_TIMEOUT) support was
        added. (Bug #26474362, Bug #69416)

      * When building Connector/ODBC from source, users now have
        a choice of linking dynamically or statically to the
        MySQL client library. Dynamic linking is selected by
        default. See Building Connector/ODBC from a Source
        Distribution on Windows
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-odbc/en/connector-odbc-installation-source-windows.html)
        or Building Connector/ODBC from a Source Distribution on Unix
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-odbc/en/connector-odbc-installation-source-unix.html)
        for details. However, the binary distributions of Connector/ODBC 
from
        Oracle remain statically linked to the client library.

    Bugs Fixed

      * Fixed an OpenRecordSet memory leak due to
        get_session_variable() not freeing a result for errors.
        (Bug #27155880, Bug #88143)

      * Calling MySQLDriverConnect with the pcbConnStrOut
        argument set to NULL caused an unexpected failure. (Bug
        #27101767, Bug #88371)

      * Connector/ODBC now compiles on MySQL 5.5. Thanks to Vadim
        Zeitlin for the patch. (Bug #26633971, Bug #87413)

Enjoy and thanks for the support!

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