Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.3.6, 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 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 onward.

This is the third 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 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


Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.3.6 (2016-03-17)

Security Notes

* Security Fix: The linked OpenSSL library for
Connector/ODBC Commercial 5.3.6 has been updated from
version 1.0.1m to version 1.0.1q. Versions of OpenSSL
prior to 1.0.1q are reported to be vulnerable to
CVE-2015-3195
(http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3195).
This change does not affect the Oracle-produced MySQL
Community build of Connector/ODBC 5.3.6, which uses the
yaSSL library instead. (CVE-2015-3195)

Functionality Added or Changed

* Two new option parameters, DISABLE_SSL_DEFAULT and
SSL_ENFORCE, have been introduced for specifying whether
the default requirement to use SSL connections is to be
followed. See Connector/ODBC Option Parameters
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-odbc/en/connector-odb
<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-odbc/en/connector-odbc-configuration-connection-parameters.html#codbc-dsn-option-flags>
c
<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-odbc/en/connector-odbc-configuration-connection-parameters.html#codbc-dsn-option-flags>-configuration-connection-parameters.html#codbc-dsn-opti
<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-odbc/en/connector-odbc-configuration-connection-parameters.html#codbc-dsn-option-flags>
on-flags
<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-odbc/en/connector-odbc-configuration-connection-parameters.html#codbc-dsn-option-flags>) for details. (Bug #21027928)

Bugs Fixed

* The function MySQLGetPrivateProfileStringW() used
malloc() to allocate memory and then xfree() to free the
allocated memory for a returned value. That caused some
issues when certain third-party versions of MySQL client
library (like MariaDB 10.x) was used. The issues have
been fixed by replacing malloc() with my_malloc(). (Bug
#21074676, Bug #76984)

* Attempt to build Connector/ODBC from source on a Linux
platform against the client library and header files
shipped with MySQL server 5.7.6 or newer failed. It was
due to the changes made to the client library and the
header files, to which Connector/ODBC has now been
adapted. (Bug #20685833)

* An application that used ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) and
the Connector/ODBC ANSI driver hung after trying to write
French characters to a database that used the UTF-8
character set. (Bug #20526062)

* Calling the SQLGetDiagField function with the
DiagIdentifier SQL_DIAG_ROW_COUNT always returned "0,"
even if there were updated, deleted, or modified rows.
(Bug #16920750)

* Because Connector/ODBC did not parse comments properly,
the parameter markers embedded in comments caused the
complaint that SQLBindParameter was not used for all
parameters. (Bug #16613308, Bug #53891)


On behalf on the MySQL RE Team.