MySQL Connector/ODBC Release Notes
Previously, Connector/ODBC added client support for the MySQL Enterprise Edition SASL LDAP authentication plugin with SCRAM-SHA-1 as an authentication method. Connector/ODBC now also supports SCRAM-SHA-256 as an alternative authentication method for classic MySQL protocol connections. SCRAM-SHA-256 is similar to SCRAM-SHA-1 but is more secure. SASL-based LDAP authentication does not apply to clients running macOS.
The SASL module required for LDAP/SCRAM-SHA256 is provided by the cyrus-sasl-scram RPM package and libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit DEB package (the same package that provides modules for LDAP/GSSAPI/Kerberos).
Using the commercial glib package (authentication_ldap_sasl) with auth using GSSAPI (authentication_ldap_sasl_auth_method_name='GSSAPI') did not function. Added the missing sasl2 modules package. (Bug #32175842)
On Debian based systems, the post-installation script uses
dpkg-architecture ODBC drivers path, so the
associated dpkg-dev
package was added as a
runtime dependency.
(Bug #32157740)
Microsoft Access halted when opening a linked table with only a JSON column. The JSON column type is now supported, and JSON data is only editable if another column is used as a primary key. Because JSON is a long data type with the maximum length of 4GB, it can't be used as a primary key by Microsoft Access and therefore tables having only JSON columns are only available in read-only mode. (Bug #32114901)
Removed the mysql-client-plugins dependency. It remains required for connections using commercial MySQL server accounts with LDAP authentication, so must be manually installed for that situation. The mysql-client-plugins package has conflicts with MySQL server versions before 8.0.21, so earlier versions (such as MySQL 5.7) require an 8.0 server upgrade to use it. (Bug #31875490)
On macOS, Connector/ODBC would not report an error if
SQL_ATTR_PARAMSET_SIZE
was set but not
supported; instead the setting was ignored.
(Bug #29862441, Bug #95608)