Changes and Improvements in MariaDB Connector/C 3.2

The most recent Stable (GA) release of MariaDB Connector/C is:MariaDB Connector/C 3.4.5

MariaDB Connector/C 3.2 is the current major development version. MariaDB Connector/C 3.1 is stable and feature-complete, so major new features to be developed are going into 3.2.

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New Features

• MDEV-19237: Do not resend prepared statement metadata unnecessarily

• CONC-508: Added support for passwords > 255 characters

• LOAD DATA LOCAL is now supported in binary protocol

• Updated/extended cipher suite list for Schannel TLS module

• CONC-433: Added support for certificate revocation list in GnuTLS module

• CONC-547: Changed default character set from latin1 to utf8mb4

• CONC-533: Added support for non blocking calls using binary protocol

• CONC-509: mysql_get_client_* api functions now return Connector version

Notable changes:

• The connection plugin "aurora" was removed

• Default character set is now utf8mb4

• Character set utf8 will be mapped to utf8mb3

• Added support for MSVC asan