For enhanced security of the existing ENABLE_LOCAL_INFILE connection string option, the new ENABLE_LOCAL_DIR option allows restricting LOCAL data loading to files located in this designated directory. Example usage:

// LOAD LOCAL DATA DIR FROM /tmp
    SQLRETURN rc =
    SQLDriverConnect(
      hdbc1,NULL,
      "DSN=myDSN;UID=root;PWD=pwd;DATABASE=test;LOAD_DATA_LOCAL_DIR=/tmp",
      SQL_NTS, conn_out, sizeof(conn_out), &conn_out_len,
      SQL_DRIVER_NOPROMPT);

// LOAD LOCAL DATA FROM EVERYWHERE
    SQLRETURN rc =
    SQLDriverConnect(
      hdbc1,NULL,
      "DSN=myDSN;UID=root;PWD=pwd;DATABASE=test;ENABLE_LOCAL_INFILE=1;",
      SQL_NTS, conn_out, sizeof(conn_out), &conn_out_len,
      SQL_DRIVER_NOPROMPT);    

(WL #13883)

Connections made using the MySQL Enterprise Edition SASL LDAP authentication plugin now are supported on Windows and Linux, but not on macOS. Connector/ODBC implements the SCRAM-SHA-1 authentication method of the SASL authentication protocol. (WL #14114)

Fixed an issue where a parameterized query could cause memory corruption. (Bug #31678876, Bug #100329)

Under some circumstances when using server-side prepared statements, the first row of a multi-row match was not returned with the result; while it was returned when using client-side prepared statements instead. (Bug #31373948, Bug #95423)

Inserting binary data (BLOBs) using SQLPutData() would report a syntax error. (Bug #31349038)