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MySQL Connector/Python 8.0 - Release Notes & Changes
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MySQL Connector/Python
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Full release notes:
 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-python/en/

v8.0.18
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- WL#13330: Single C/Python (Win) MSI installer
- WL#13335: Connectors should handle expired password sandbox without SET operations
- WL#13194: Add support for Python 3.8
- BUG#29909157: Table scans of floats causes memory leak with the C extension
- BUG#25349794: Add read_default_file alias for option_files in connect()

v8.0.17
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- WL#13155: Support new utf8mb4 bin collation
- WL#12737: Add overlaps and not_overlaps as operator
- WL#12735: Add README.rst and CONTRIBUTING.rst files
- WL#12227: Indexing array fields
- WL#12085: Support cursor prepared statements with C extension
- BUG#29855733: Fix error during connection using charset and collation combination
- BUG#29833590: Calling execute() should fetch active results
- BUG#21072758: Support for connection attributes classic

v8.0.16
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- WL#12864: Upgrade of Protobuf version to 3.6.1
- WL#12863: Drop support for Django versions older than 1.11
- WL#12489: Support new session reset functionality
- WL#12488: Support for session-connect-attributes
- WL#12297: Expose metadata about the source and binaries
- WL#12225: Prepared statement support
- BUG#29324966: Add missing username connection argument for driver compatibility
- BUG#29278489: Fix wrong user and group for Solaris packages
- BUG#29001628: Fix access by column label in Table.select()
- BUG#28479054: Fix Python interpreter crash due to memory corruption
- BUG#27897881: Empty LONG BLOB throws an IndexError

v8.0.15
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- BUG#29260128: Disable load data local infile by default

v8.0.14
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- WL#12607: Handling of Default Schema
- WL#12493: Standardize count method
- WL#12492: Be prepared for initial notice on connection
- BUG#28646344: Remove expression parsing on values
- BUG#28280321: Fix segmentation fault when using unicode characters in tables
- BUG#27794178: Using use_pure=False should raise an error if cext is not available
- BUG#27434751: Add a TLS/SSL option to verify server name

v8.0.13
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- WL#12239: Add support for Python 3.7
- WL#12226: Implement connect timeout
- WL#11897: Implement connection pooling for xprotocol
- BUG#28278352: C extension mysqlx Collection.add() leaks memory in sequential calls
- BUG#28037275: Missing bind parameters causes segfault or unclear error message
- BUG#27528819: Support special characters in the user and password using URI

v8.0.12
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- WL#11951: Consolidate discrepancies between pure and c extension
- WL#11932: Remove Fabric support
- WL#11898: Core API v1 alignment
- BUG#28188883: Use utf8mb4 as the default character set
- BUG#28133321: Fix incorrect columns names representing aggregate functions
- BUG#27962293: Fix Django 2.0 and MySQL 8.0 compatibility issues
- BUG#27567999: Fix wrong docstring in ModifyStatement.patch()
- BUG#27277937: Fix confusing error message when using an unsupported collation
- BUG#26834200: Deprecate Row.get_string() method
- BUG#26660624: Fix missing install option in documentation

v8.0.11
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- WL#11668: Add SHA256_MEMORY authentication mechanism
- WL#11614: Enable C extension by default
- WL#11448: New document _id generation support
- WL#11282: Support new locking modes NOWAIT and SKIP LOCKED
- BUG#27639119: Use a list of dictionaries to store warnings
- BUG#27634885: Update error codes for MySQL 8.0.11
- BUG#27589450: Remove upsert functionality from WriteStatement class
- BUG#27528842: Fix internal queries open for SQL injection
- BUG#27364914: Cursor prepared statements do not convert strings
- BUG#24953913: Fix failing unittests
- BUG#24948205: Results from JSON_TYPE() are returned as bytearray
- BUG#24948186: JSON type results are bytearray instead of corresponding python type

v8.0.6
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- WL#11372: Remove configuration API
- WL#11303: Remove CreateTable and CreateView
- WL#11281: Transaction savepoints
- WL#11278: Collection.create_index
- WL#11149: Create Pylint test for mysqlx
- WL#11142: Modify/MergePatch
- WL#11079: Add support for Python 3.6

v8.0.5
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- WL#11073: Add caching_sha2_password authentication plugin
- WL#10975: Add Single document operations
- WL#10974: Add Row locking methods to find and select operations
- WL#10973: Allow JSON types as operands for IN operator
- WL#10899: Add support for pure Python implementation of Protobuf
- WL#10771: Add SHA256 authentication
- WL#10053: Configuration handling interface

v8.0.4
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- WL#10772: Cleanup Drop APIs
- WL#10770: Ensure all Session connections are secure by default
- WL#10754: Forbid modify() and remove() with no condition
- WL#10659: Support utf8mb4 as default charset
- WL#10658: Remove concept of NodeSession
- WL#10657: Move version number to 8.0
- WL#10198: Add Protobuf C++ extension implementation
- WL#10004: Document UUID generation
- BUG#26175003: Fix Session.sql() when using unicode SQL statements with Python 2.7
- BUG#26161838: Dropping an non-existing index should succeed silently
- BUG#26160876: Fix issue when using empty condition in Collection.remove() and Table.delete()
- BUG#26029811: Improve error thrown when using an invalid parameter in bind()
- BUG#25991574: Fix Collection.remove() and Table.delete() missing filters

v2.2.3
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- WL#10452: Add Protobuf C++ extension for Linux variants and Mac OSX
- WL#10081: DevAPI: IPv6 support
- BUG#25614860: Fix defined_as method in the view creation
- BUG#25519251: SelectStatement does not implement order_by() method
- BUG#25436568: Update available operators for XPlugin
- BUG#24954006: Add missing items in CHANGES.txt
- BUG#24578507: Fix import error using Python 2.6
- BUG#23636962: Fix improper error message when creating a Session
- BUG#23568207: Fix default aliases for projection fields
- BUG#23567724: Fix operator names

v2.2.2
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- DevAPI: Schema.create_table
- DevAPI: Flexible Parameter Lists
- DevAPI: New transports: Unix domain socket
- DevAPI: Core TLS/SSL options for the mysqlx URI scheme
- DevAPI: View DDL with support for partitioning in a cluster / sharding
- BUG#24520850: Fix unexpected behavior when using an empty collection name

v2.2.1
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- Add support for Protocol Buffers 3
- Add View support (without DDL)
- Implement get_default_schema() method in BaseSchema
- DevAPI: Per ReplicaSet SQL execution
- DevAPI: XSession accepts a list of routers
- DevAPI: Define action on adding empty list of documents
- BUG#23729357: Fix fetching BIT datatype
- BUG#23583381: Add who_am_i and am_i_real methods to DatabaseObject
- BUG#23568257: Add fetch_one method to mysqlx.result
- BUG#23550743: Add close method to XSession and NodeSession
- BUG#23550057: Add support for URI as connection data

v2.2.0
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- Provide initial implementation of new DevAPI