MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.3.4 has been released (no replies)

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.3.4, 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 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

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Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.3.4 (2014-07-18)

Security Notes

  * Security Fix: The linked OpenSSL library for Connector/ODBC
    Commercial 5.3.4 has been updated from version 1.0.1g to
    version 1.0.1h. Versions of OpenSSL prior to and including
    1.0.1g are reported to be vulnerable to CVE-2014-0224
    (http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-02
    24).
    This change does not affect the Oracle-produced MySQL
    Community build of Connector/ODBC 5.3.4, which uses the yaSSL
    library instead. (CVE-2014-0224)

Functionality Added or Changed

  * Introduced a new DSN configuration option, rsakey, for
    specifying the full-path name of the PEM file that contains
    the RSA public key for using the SHA256 authentication plugin
    of MySQL. See Connector/ODBC DSN Configuration Options
    (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-odbc/en/connector-odbc-con
    figuration-connection-parameters.html#codbc-dsn-config-options
    ) for details.

  * Added NULL handle checks in functions exported by
    Connector/ODBC.

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Hery Ramilison
MySQL/ORACLE Release Engineering Team