Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/J 6.0.3 m2 Development Release is a developer milestone
release for the 6.0.x series.

It is the second public release of the current Connector/J 6.0 development
branch, providing an insight to upcoming features. Although some of
these are still under development, this release includes the following
new features and changes, also described in more detail on
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-j/en/news-6-0-3.html.

As always, we recommend that you check the "CHANGES" file in the download
archive to be aware of changes in behavior that might affect your
application.

Enjoy!

Changes in MySQL Connector/J 6.0.3 m2 (2016-06-24)

Functionality Added or Changed

* For MySQL server 5.7.5 and later, the EOF packet in the
MySQL server/client protocol has been deprecated and
replaced by the OK packet. The change is now supported by
Connector/J. (Bug #23212347)

* SSL is now supported for connections to a MySQL server
using the X Protocol. (Bug #21532788)

* The following objects are no longer extensions of the
Extension interface, but get their own implementations
now, which reduces their dependencies on other objects:

+ BalanceStrategy

+ ProfilerEventHandler

+ AuthenticationPlugin

Bugs Fixed

* An excessive amount of memory was used when the
connection properties enablePacketDebug and traceProtocol
were both set to "true." (Bug #23535571)

* Connector/J hung, returned a NullPointerException, or
returned an incorrect exception when using result sets
with the properties TYPE_FORWARD_ONLY and
CONCUR_UPDATABLE. It was due to an inaccurate check for
the cursor for the result set. This fix makes sure
Connector/J checks accurately on whether a cursor has
been requested, both when executing a statement and
fetching its results. (Bug #23201930)

* When using server-side prepared statements with
profileSQL=true and useInformationSchema=true, an
SQLException (" ResultSet is from UPDATE. No Data")
occurred when the client tried to advance to the next row
in the result set. This was due to a failure of an
internal query for metadata, which is now prevented by
this fix. (Bug #23188498)

* The download package for Connector/J 6.0.2 Milestone 1
contained the Developer Guide for the wrong version of
Connector/J. (Bug #23111273, Bug #81089)

* A NullPointerException occurred in
com.mysql.cj.mysqlx.io.AsyncMessageReader due to a race
condition when there were more than 2000 concurrent
connections taking place. (Bug #23044312)

* getTimestamp() returned wrong value for the fractional
part of a TIME or DATETIME field. (Bug #22932078)

* LoadBalanceConnectionGroupManager.removeHost() was not
removing hosts as expected. This fix tries to ensure that
host removals will be successful under different
situations. (Bug #22848249)
References: See also: Bug #22678872.

* For a load-balanced connection, an
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException was thrown when
ConnectionGroupManager.removeHost() was called. It was
due to an error in
LoadBalancedConnectionProxy.removeHost(), which has now
been fixed. (Bug #22730682)

* A Fabric connection threw a NullPointerException when all
hosts have been removed from its host list, or when the
internal load-balanced connection became null due to
inconsistency of the replication connection. This fix
adds to Connector/J the abilities to handle those
situations. Also, a new connection property,
loadBalanceHostRemovalGracePeriod, has been introduced,
which sets the grace period for waiting to remove the
currently active host from a load-balanced connection.
See the entry for the new property in Driver/Datasource
Class Names, URL Syntax and Configuration Properties for
Connector/J
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-j/6.0/en/connector-j-
reference-configuration-properties.html) for details.
(Bug #22678872)
References: See also: Bug #22848249.

* With some Tomcat web applications, when Connector/J
connects to the server with useLegacyDatetimeCode=false
without setting serverTimeZone, a NullPointerException
was returned. This was because the timezone property file
for Connector/J was loaded by the bootstrap class loader,
which did not know the location of the property file and
thus failed to load it. This fix avoids the problem by
making Connector/J use the same class loader for both the
property file and the Connector/J classes. (Bug
#22353759, Bug #79343)

* After a failed call of a stored procedure, any subsequent
X DevAPI call resulted in a hang. (Bug #22038729)

* At every connection, Connector/J got the sql_mode
variable from the server and tried to parse it as a
number; because sql_mode is not a number (except for very
old versions of MySQL), an NumberFormatException was
always thrown and then caught by the code. This fix
refactored the code to avoid the unnecessary throwing and
catching of the error. (Bug #21181466, Bug #77171)

* The exception message in CallableStatement() for
incorrect output parameter registration gave little
detail and the wrong error code. (Bug #18068303, Bug
#71131)

* On very fast servers with other third-party components
accessing the data, a ConcurrentModificationException was
sometimes thrown. This fix prevents the exception by
adding a synchronization to
ConnectionImpl.closeAllOpenStatements(), and by
refactoring part of the code inside the method. (Bug
#16736619, Bug #59462)

* When working with MySQL server 5.5 and 5.6, because
Connector/J did not check the version number of the
server it was connected to, errors and failures occurred
when there was an attempt to use certain
version-dependent features (for example, using fractional
seconds for servers earlier than 5.6.4). With this fix,
the proper exceptions are thrown in those cases.

Documentation
--------------
Online: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-j/6.0/en/index.html

Reporting Bugs
---------------
We welcome and appreciate your feedback and bug reports:
http://bugs.mysql.com/

On Behalf of the MySQL/ORACLE RE Team
Hery Ramilison


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