Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.3.2 GA, 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.)

This is the third release of the MySQL ODBC driver conforming to the
ODBC 3.8 specification. It contains the minimally required
implementation of the standard with key 3.8 features, which include
self-identification as a ODBC 3.8 driver, streaming of output parameters
(supported for binary types only), 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 GUI DSN setup dialog on some Unix based systems, currently
included in the Oracle Linux 6 and Debian 6 binary 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/refman/5.6/en/connector-odbc-installation.html

Enjoy!

The MySQL Connectors team at Oracle

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Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.3.2 (2014-04-08)

Functionality Added or Changed

* Implemented support for the ODBCINSTGetProperties
interface for use by unixODBC GUI dialogs. This allows
users to configure a file DSN through a graphical user
interface on Unix-like platforms. (Bug #17513175)

* Made the Connector/ODBC GUI on Linux comply with the
GNOME Coding Guidelines for Supporting Accessibility
(https://developer.gnome.org/accessibility-devel-guide/3.
10/gad-coding-guidelines.html.en).

* Added support for the connection flag
DFLT_BIGINT_BIND_STR.

Bugs Fixed

* The functions SQLSetDescField(), SQLGetDiagField(), and
SQLGetDiagRec() crashed when a null pointer was passed as a
handle for those functions. This fix makes the functions check
if the passed pointer is null before using it. (Bug #18431088)

* SQLBulkOperations(SQL_FETCH_BOOKMARK) returned an SQL_NO_DATA
error when called after
SQLBulkOperations(SQL_UPDATE_BY_BOOKMARK) or
SQLBulkOperations(SQL_DELETE_BY_BOOKMARK). (Bug #18287216)

* The order of the control elements was wrong during control
selection in Connector/ODBC's Windows GUI. (Bug #18240696)

* Concurrent execution of SQLEndTran() and SQL_HANDLE_ENV
resulted in a segmentation fault. (Bug #18166331)

* Calling SQLNumResultCols() with a NULL parameter resulted in a
segmentation fault. (Bug #18165197)

* At a malloc() failure, Connector/ODBC crashed because in the
driver_new() function, driver is being freed before
driver->name and driver->lib. This fix corrects the order of
the free() calls. (Bug #17992912)

* myodbc-installer did not initialize the allocated memory. This
fix flushes the buffer with "\0" for initialization. (Bug
#18046120)

* Connector/ODBC's GUI dialog could not be opened from within
ODBCManageDataSourcesQ4 for editing an existing DSN. (Bug
#18046123)

* Connector/ODBC crashed when trying to prepare a query after
connecting to the server with an invalid value for CHARSET.
This fix checks the CHARSET value and throws an error if it is
invalid. (Bug #17999659)

* Driver and installer crashed when the path lengths supplied
were longer than 256 characters or when the option strings
were longer than 100 characters. This fix makes Connector/ODBC
return the proper errors instead. (Bug #17966018)

* SQLFetch() crashed when executed using unixodbc versions
2.3.0, 2.3.1, or 2.3.2. (Bug #17857204)

* A segmentation fault occurred in SQLSpecialColumns() if the
table name supplied was too long. This fix makes Connector/Net
throw a proper error for the situation. (Bug #17854697)

* SQLGetData did not return correct length of the data when
retrieving data from an output parameter stream. (Bug
#17814768, Bug #70946)

* When called after SQLParamaData, SQLGetData returned an error.
(Bug #17842966)

* A segmentation fault occurred in SQLBulkOperations for an
SQL_UPDATE_BY_BOOKMARK if the prior fetch returned no records.
(Bug #17714358)

* Data corruption occurred in SQLBulkOperations(), because in
the batch_insert() function, ptr_offset_adjust sometimes
pointed to an invalid memory location. (Bug #17714172)

* While doing BULK INSERT into a table's time column using
Connector/ODBC, a syntax error was thrown if there was an hour
value larger than 99. This fix makes sure the proper error is
thrown, and when an hour value is larger than 23. (Bug
#17613161)

* If the catalog name given to SQLSetConnectAttr() was too long,
calling SQLConnect() or SQLDriverConnect() crashed the
connection, and calling SQLGetConnectAttr() returned null for
the catalog name. (Bug #17587913)

* A memory leak occurred in SQLExecute() when the connection was
killed by another thread. (Bug #17587617)

* SQLDescribeCol() returned a memory allocation failure error
when called without a resultset. This fix makes sure the
proper error is returned. (Bug #17588101)

* The DMG installer for Connector/ODBC failed on OS X 10.8 and
10.9. This fix corrects the wrong identification for the drive
type, which caused the installation problem. (Bug #17512040,
Bug #70422)

* A memory leak occurred in SQLSetStmtAttr(). (Bug #17441507)

* A segmentation fault occurred when SQLColumns()'s argument for
table name was longer than 256 characters or its argument for
column name was longer than 129 characters. This fix makes
Connector/ODBC throw a proper error for those situations. (Bug
#17358838)

* A memory leak occurred in SQLProcedureColumns() when no
function or procedure column satisfying the selection
condition existed. (Bug #17298721)

* An assertion failure occurred in SQLDescribeCol() if the
column number used is larger than the number of columns in the
result set. (Bug #17311065)

* A segmentation fault occurred in myodbc_casecmp() when the
provided query was empty. (Bug #17085344)

* When using Connector/ODBC in Microsoft Access, sorting a
column in the data view might crash the program. (Bug
#17071780, Bug #69550)

* When the connection option FLAG_NO_INFORMATION_SCHEMA was
used, calling the SQLFetch function after the SQLForeignKeys
function returned bad results. (Bug #16920750, Bug #64307)

* When building Connector/ODBC on some 64-bit systems other than
x86_64 (e.g. ppc64), CMake did not recognize that it was a
64-bit system and incorrectly used lib instead of lib64 as
directory name for installing the dynamic library. This fix
implements a two-step approach, making CMake check for the
system architecture by reading the value of
CMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P and also by checking the existence of the
/usr/lib64 folder. (Bug #16785424)

* The function SQLForeignKeys() did not work if the connection
option NO_I_S was set. (Bug #13712420, Bug #64307)

* Implemented a workaround for a control issue with GtkComboBox
and GtkComboBoxEntry, in which the dialog control intercepted
the keyboard signals, so that focus could be set to other
controls using the keyboard.

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Hery Ramilison
MySQL/ORACLE Release Engineering Team

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