MariaDB Connector/C 3.2.0 Release notes

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

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Release date: 10 Jun 2021

This is a Beta release of the MariaDB Connector/C, formerly known as MariaDB Client Library for C.

Do not use beta releases in production!

For a description of this library see theMariaDB Connector/C page.

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

Bug fixes

• various address sanitizer (asan) fixes

• Build fxes for latest CMake version

• CONC-548: Fixed symbol conflict when linking against libsodium

• CONC-490: unset CLIENT_CONNECT_WITH_DB flag if no database was specified

• CONC-543: renamed internal hash functions (to avoid conflicts with statically linked GnuTLS library)

• CONC-537: Only use MYSQL_HOME environment variable if MARIADB_HOME was not specified.

• CONC-535: disabled checksum ignored in event processing (Replication/Binlog API)

• CONC-475: export function mariadb_rpl_init_ex (Replication/Binlog API)

• CONC-521: define _XOPEN_SOURCE before including ucontext.h (MacOS)

• CONC-518: Added macro IS_MYSQL_ASYNC() which now checks if memory for extension was allocated.

• CONC-517: if plugin dir was not specified, plugin needs to be loaded from current path, DLPATH or PATH (Windows)

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

Changelog

For a list of changes made in this release, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.

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