MySQL Connector/J 5.1.34 has been released (no replies)

Hello all,

MySQL Connector/J 5.1.34, a maintenance release of the production 5.1
branch has been released. Connector/J is the Type-IV pure-Java JDBC
driver for MySQL.

Version 5.1.34 is a maintenance release of the production 5.1 branch.
It is suitable for use with MySQL server versions 5.5 and 5.6.

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

MySQL Connector Java (Commercial) is already available for download
on the My Oracle Support (MOS) website. This release will be available
on eDelivery (OSDC) in next month's upload cycle.

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 5.1.34 includes the following general bug fixes and
improvements, also available in more detail on
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-j/en/news-5-1-34.html :

Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.34                    (2014-11-04)

   Version 5.1.34 is a maintenance release of the production 5.1
   branch. It is suitable for use with MySQL server versions
   5.5, and 5.6.

   Functionality Added or Changed

     * Connector/J now supports connections to MySQL servers
       through a SOCKS proxy. Two new configuration properties,
       socksProxyHost and socksProxyPort, have been introduced
       to support this new feature; see the entries for them in
       Driver/Datasource Class Names, URL Syntax and
       Configuration Properties for Connector/J
       (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-j/en/connector-j-refe
       rence-configuration-properties.html) for details. Note
       that authentication is not directly supported in the
       current implementation for SOCKS proxy support. (Bug
       #13940005, Bug #64862)

     * The process for building Connector/J from source has been
       revamped to fix incompatibilities with Eclipse 4.4,
       remove dependency on Ant Contrib, improve on the
       documentation for the code, and to improve on the
       structure of the output. See Installing from the
       Development Source Tree
       (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-j/en/connector-j-inst
       alling-source.html) for the updated instructions for
       building Connector/J 5.1.34.

   Bugs Fixed

     * When connecting to MySQL server 5.7.4 or earlier, the
       connection failed when the password was blank for any
       users created on the server using the mysql_old_password
       plugin. This fix refactored the testOldPasswordPlugin of
       Connector/J so that it works well with the server under
       the situation. (Bug #19383371)

     * An exception was thrown when users tried to run the
       testsuite.fabric test cases without specifying the
       property com.mysql.fabric.testsuite.port. With this fix,
       the Fabric test cases will not be run unless the test
       environment has been configured. (Bug #18474141)

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

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


On behalf of Oracle/MySQL Build Team,
Sreedhar S