Dear MySQL Users,

MySQL Connector/J 5.1.46, a maintenance release of the production 5.1
branch has been released. Connector/J is the Type-IV pure-Java JDBC
driver for MySQL.

MySQL Connector Java is available in source and binary form from the
Connector/J download pages at
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/5.1.html
and mirror sites as well as Maven-2 repositories.

MySQL Connector Java (Commercial) is already available for download on the
My Oracle Support (MOS) website. This release will shortly be available on
eDelivery (OSDC).

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.

MySQL Connector/J 5.1.46 includes the following general bug fixes and
improvements, also available in more detail on
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-j/en/news-5-1-46.html

Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.46 (2018-03-12)

Version 5.1.46 is a maintenance release of the production 5.1
branch. It is suitable for use with MySQL Server versions
5.5, 5.6, 5.7, and 8.0. It supports the Java Database
Connectivity (JDBC) 4.2 API.

Functionality Added or Changed

* Because Connector/J restricted TLS versions to v1.1 and
below by default when connecting to MySQL Community
Server 8.0 (which used to be compiled with yaSSL by
default and thus supporting only TLS v1.1 and below), it
failed to connect to to a MySQL 8.0.4 Community Server
(which has been compiled with OpenSSL by default and thus
supports TLS v1.2) that was configured to only allow TLS
v1.2 connections. TLS v1.2 is now enabled for connections
with MySQL Community Server 8.0.4 and later. (Bug
#27374581)

* The bundle for Connector/J 5.1 delivered by Oracle now
contains an additional jar package with the name
mysql-connector-java-5.1.ver.jar
(mysql-connector-java-commercial-5.1.ver.jar for
commercial bundles). It is identical with the other jar
package with the original package named
mysql-connector-java-5.1.ver-bin.jar
(mysql-connector-java-commercial-5.1.ver-bin.jar for
commercial bundles), except for its more Maven-friendly
file name. (Bug #27231383)

* The lower bound for the connection property
packetDebugBufferSize has been changed to 1, to avoid the
connection errors that occur when the value is set to 0.
(Bug #26819691)

* For multi-host connections, when a MySQL Server was
configured with autocommit=0, Connection.getAutoCommit()
did not return the correct value. This was because
useLocalSessionState=true was assumed for multi-host
connections, which might not be the case, resulting thus
in inconsistent session states.
With this fix, by default, Connector/J executes some
extra queries in the connection synchronization process
to guarantee consistent session states between the client
and the server at any connection switch. This would mean,
however, that when none of the hosts are available during
an attempted server switch, an exception for closed
connection will be thrown immediately while, in earlier
Connector/J versions, there would be a connection error
thrown first before a closed connection error. Error
handling in some applications might need to be adjusted
accordingly.
Applications can skip the new session state
synchronization mechanism by having
useLocalSessionState=true. (Bug #26314325, Bug #86741)

* Connector/J now supports the new caching_sha2_password
authentication plugin for MySQL 8.0, which is the default
authentication plugin for MySQL 8.0.4 and later (see
Caching SHA-2 Pluggable Authentication
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/caching-sha2-plug
gable-authentication.html) for details).
Note
To authenticate accounts with the caching_sha2_password
plugin, either a secure connection to the server using
SSL
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-j/5.1/en/connector-j-
reference-using-ssl.html) or an unencrypted connection
that supports password exchange using an RSA key pair
(enabled by setting one or both of the connecting
properties allowPublicKeyRetrieval and
serverRSAPublicKeyFile) must be used.
Because earlier versions of Connector/J 5.1 do not
support the caching_sha2_password authentication plugin
and therefore will not be able to connect to accounts
that authenticate with the new plugin (which might
include the root account created by default during a new
installation of a MySQL 8.0 Server), it is highly
recommended that you upgrade now to Connector/J 5.1.46,
to help ensure that your applications continue to work
smoothly with the latest MySQL 8.0 Server.

Bugs Fixed

* When Connector/J 5.1.44 or earlier connected to MySQL
5.7.20 or later, warnings are issued because Connector/J
used the deprecated system variables tx_isolation and
tx_read_only. These SQL-level warnings, returned from a
SHOW WARNINGS statement, might cause some applications to
throw errors and stop working. With this fix, the
deprecated variables are no longer used for MySQL 5.7.20
and later; also, to avoid similar issues, a SHOW WARNINGS
statement is no longer issued for the use of deprecated
variables. (Bug #27029657, Bug #88227)

* When the default database was not specified for a
connection, the connection attributes did not get stored
in the session_connect_attrs table in the Performance
Schema of the MySQL Server. (Bug #22362474, Bug #79612)

On Behalf of Oracle/MySQL Release Engineering Team
Hery Ramilison

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