MySQL Connector/Net 5.1.4 GA has been released.

[Reggie Burnett-2]

Hi,

MySQL Connector/Net 5.1.4 a new version of the all-managed .NET driver
for MySQL has been released.

************* IMPORTANT ********************
Connector/Net 5.1 represents a change in how we package our products.
Until now, we've shipped our core provider and the Visual Studio
integration bits as separate downloads. This has become a bit of a
problem. Often we would fix a bug that involved changing code both in
the VS package and in the core provider. This provided a versioning
problem where users would need to upgrade both products to see the
benefit of the bug fix. To solve this, we've decided to discontinue
Tools for Visual Studio as a separate product and have, instead,
integrated it into a new Connector/Net installer. We hope this provides
a better "out of box" experience for our users.

All previous versions of Tools for Visual Studio should be uninstalled
prior to installing this product.
********************************************

Version 5.1.4 works with all versions of MySQL including MySQL-4.1,  
MySQL-5.0, MySQL-5.1 beta or the MySQL-6.0 Falcon "Preview".

It is now available in source and binary form from
[http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/5.1.html] and mirror sites
(note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point of time
- if you can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later
or choose another download site.)

== Issues fixed ==
  - Fixed issue where column name metadata was not using the charset
given on the connection string
    (Bug #31185)
  - Fixed problem where closing the connection before the reader where
the reader was
    opened with CloseConnection would cause a object disposed exception
to be thrown
  - Fixed problem with installer where the installation would fail if
the performance
    counter categories had already been removed for some reason    
  - Fixed problem with attempting to use a command with a connection
that is not open.
    The problem was caused by the introduction of the internal method
SoftClosed that is
    used with transactions.  (Bug #31262)    
  - Fixed problem where attempting to enlist in a distributed
transaction would succeed
    even though Connector/Net doesn't currently support that. (Bug #31703)
  - Fixed problem with web providers not being usable on medium trust
systems    
  - Fixed problem with installer where attempting to install over a
failed uninstall could
    leave multiple clients registered in machine.config.  (Bug #31731)    
  - Marked MySqlDbType.Datetime obsolete; replaced with DateTime (just
corrected capitalization) (Bug #26344)
  - fixed code where we were returning bit(1) as boolean but mysql
treats tinyint(1) as boolean
    (bug #27959)
  - Added the Default Command Timeout connection string option to allow
DDEX users to set
    an initial command timeout for very large databases (bug #27958)

== Changes ported from 5.0 branch ==

  - Fixed problem where fields that were blobs but did not include the
BLOB flag were treated
    as binary when they should have been treated as text.  (Bug #30233)  
  - Changed from using Array.Copy to Buffer.BlockCopy in
MySqlDataReader.GetBytes.  This
    helps with memory usage as we expect the source and destination
arrays to not be overlapping.
    (Bug #31090)
  - Fixed problem that prevented commands from being executed from the
state change
    handler.  Not sure why you would want to do this but...  (bug #30964)
  - Fixed problem with connection string caching where our collection
class was
    using case insensitive semantics and this causes cases where a user
orginally
    used the wrong case for a user id and then fixed it to still get
access denied
    errors. (Bug #31433)
  - improved the speed of load data local infile significantly  
  - fixed MySqlDateTime.ToString() to properly return the date value
(Bug #32010)  
  - fixed problem where string parameters who have their size set after
their value could cause exceptions
    (Bug #32094)
  - fixed problem where old code was preventing creating parameter
objects with non-input direction using
    just a constructor (Bug #32093)
  - fixed problem where a syntax error in a set of batch statements
could leave the data adapter in a state
    that appears hung (bug #31930)
  - fixed the MySqlException class to set the server error code in the
Data[] hash so that
    DbProviderFactory users can access the server error code (Bug #27436)
  - fixed problem where changing the connection string of a connection
to one that changes
    the parameter marker after the connection had been assigned to a
command but before
    the connection is opened can cause parameters to not be found (bug
#13991)
 
Enjoy and thanks for the support!
Reggie





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[Jorge Bastos]

Hi Reggie,
To when a new release for 1.x driver version?





-----Original Message-----
From: Reggie Burnett [mailto:reggie@...]
Sent: terça-feira, 20 de Novembro de 2007 16:36
To: announce@...; dotnet@...
Subject: MySQL Connector/Net 5.1.4 GA has been released.

Hi,

MySQL Connector/Net 5.1.4 a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for
MySQL has been released.

************* IMPORTANT ******************** Connector/Net 5.1 represents a
change in how we package our products.
Until now, we've shipped our core provider and the Visual Studio integration
bits as separate downloads. This has become a bit of a problem. Often we
would fix a bug that involved changing code both in the VS package and in
the core provider. This provided a versioning problem where users would need
to upgrade both products to see the benefit of the bug fix. To solve this,
we've decided to discontinue Tools for Visual Studio as a separate product
and have, instead, integrated it into a new Connector/Net installer. We hope
this provides a better "out of box" experience for our users.

All previous versions of Tools for Visual Studio should be uninstalled prior
to installing this product.
********************************************

Version 5.1.4 works with all versions of MySQL including MySQL-4.1,
MySQL-5.0, MySQL-5.1 beta or the MySQL-6.0 Falcon "Preview".

It is now available in source and binary form from
[http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/5.1.html] and mirror sites
(note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point of time
- if you can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later or
choose another download site.)

== Issues fixed ==
  - Fixed issue where column name metadata was not using the charset given
on the connection string
    (Bug #31185)
  - Fixed problem where closing the connection before the reader where the
reader was
    opened with CloseConnection would cause a object disposed exception to
be thrown
  - Fixed problem with installer where the installation would fail if the
performance
    counter categories had already been removed for some reason    
  - Fixed problem with attempting to use a command with a connection that is
not open.
    The problem was caused by the introduction of the internal method
SoftClosed that is
    used with transactions.  (Bug #31262)    
  - Fixed problem where attempting to enlist in a distributed transaction
would succeed
    even though Connector/Net doesn't currently support that. (Bug #31703)
  - Fixed problem with web providers not being usable on medium trust
systems    
  - Fixed problem with installer where attempting to install over a failed
uninstall could
    leave multiple clients registered in machine.config.  (Bug #31731)    
  - Marked MySqlDbType.Datetime obsolete; replaced with DateTime (just
corrected capitalization) (Bug #26344)
  - fixed code where we were returning bit(1) as boolean but mysql treats
tinyint(1) as boolean
    (bug #27959)
  - Added the Default Command Timeout connection string option to allow DDEX
users to set
    an initial command timeout for very large databases (bug #27958)

== Changes ported from 5.0 branch ==

  - Fixed problem where fields that were blobs but did not include the BLOB
flag were treated
    as binary when they should have been treated as text.  (Bug #30233)  
  - Changed from using Array.Copy to Buffer.BlockCopy in
MySqlDataReader.GetBytes.  This
    helps with memory usage as we expect the source and destination arrays
to not be overlapping.
    (Bug #31090)
  - Fixed problem that prevented commands from being executed from the state
change
    handler.  Not sure why you would want to do this but...  (bug #30964)
  - Fixed problem with connection string caching where our collection class
was
    using case insensitive semantics and this causes cases where a user
orginally
    used the wrong case for a user id and then fixed it to still get access
denied
    errors. (Bug #31433)
  - improved the speed of load data local infile significantly
  - fixed MySqlDateTime.ToString() to properly return the date value (Bug
#32010)
  - fixed problem where string parameters who have their size set after
their value could cause exceptions
    (Bug #32094)
  - fixed problem where old code was preventing creating parameter objects
with non-input direction using
    just a constructor (Bug #32093)
  - fixed problem where a syntax error in a set of batch statements could
leave the data adapter in a state
    that appears hung (bug #31930)
  - fixed the MySqlException class to set the server error code in the
Data[] hash so that
    DbProviderFactory users can access the server error code (Bug #27436)
  - fixed problem where changing the connection string of a connection to
one that changes
    the parameter marker after the connection had been assigned to a command
but before
    the connection is opened can cause parameters to not be found (bug
#13991)
 
Enjoy and thanks for the support!
Reggie





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