MySQL Installer Release Notes
Known limitation: There is an issue for MySQL 8.0.16 and higher that prevents the server from starting when the data directory from an earlier server version is reused for a new server installation. MySQL Server automatically initiates an upgrade when an existing data directory from an earlier server installation is reused and MySQL Installer does not process the upgrade as expected.
The workaround is to use the Upgrade operation in MySQL Installer, instead of removing the earlier server installation and then installing a fresh server instance that reuses the previous data directory. Alternatively, install a new server instance with the same version number as the data directory to be reused, then upgrade the server afterwards.
MySQL Installer no longer discovers the following MySQL products and product series. All actions to these products, if they are currently installed, must be performed manually.
Products removed from the list of products available for installation:
MySQL Utilities
MySQL Fabric
MySQL Connector/C
Product series removed from the list of products available for installation:
MySQL Server 5.1, 5.5
Samples 5.1, 5.5
Documentation 5.1, 5.5
MySQL Workbench 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
MySQL Notifier 1.0
MySQL for Excel 1.0, 1.1, 1.2
MySQL Enterprise Backup 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 4.0
MySQL for Visual Studio 1.0, 1.1
MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1, 5.2
MySQL Connector/J 6.0
MySQL Connector/NET 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 7.0
MySQL Connector/Python 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, and 8.0 (for Python versions 2.7, 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7 only)
(Bug #29649739, Bug #30544452)
The connection test performed after reconfiguring an existing InnoDB Cluster to be a sandbox InnoDB Cluster reported that the connection was unsuccessful, because an alternative port was used for the test. This fix ensures that the user-defined connection details are always used when testing a reconfigured cluster connection. (Bug #30830259)
Previously, MySQL Installer included plugin-load
entries
in the my.ini
server configuration file to
install MySQL Enterprise Firewall. The file entries introduced errors in the server
log during an upgrade when the loading operation was attempted.
This fix removes the plugin-load
entries from
the file and now executes the SQL script supplied by the MySQL
Server to create all of the supporting objects required to
install the plugin.
(Bug #30725039)
A success icon was shown incorrectly after an attempt to remove a product failed and the operation included no suboperations. (Bug #30669574)
Ineffective validation determined that all products set with
relatedVersion=8.0
in the products manifest
were installed already when Connector/Python 8.0.19 was selected for
installation. The error disabled the selection arrows for
related items, such as MySQL Documentation 8.0.19 or Samples and
Examples 8.0.19, during the Select Products and Features step.
(Bug #30556167)
A port number other than the default 3306
added an error to the log for a MySQL server instance that was
installed using MySQLInstallerConsole.exe
while another server instance with the default port was
installed already. Now, the default port value can be overridden
as expected and all ports in use already are identified.
(Bug #30428696, Bug #97252)
An issue with Connector/Python blocked the installation of other MySQL connectors and clients. (Bug #30377477)
References: See also: Bug #30556167.
An exception was returned unexpectedly when the
MySQLInstallerConsole INSTALL
command was
used.
(Bug #30298310)