Whats new in version 5.1.31:
- Functionality Added or Changed:
- Added support for sha256_password authentication with RSA encryption.
- Bugs Fixed:
- The option name gatherPerfMetrics in the fullDebug.properties file was misspelled as gatherPerMetrics. That resulted in the performance metrics not being logged. The name has been corrected in both the file and the Connector/J manual. (Bug #18598665, Bug #72326)
- The MySQL Fabric driver did not properly propagate exceptions thrown during connection creation using JDBC 4. (Bug #18549472, Bug #72301)
- In the method MysqlIO.unpackBinaryResultSetRow, an array was created unnecessarily to hold the null bit mask. With this fix, Connector/J avoids the creation of the array by making use of the data that is still variable in the original buffer object. (Bug #18403456, Bug #72023)
- When trying to get an integer from a column value that was not a number, instead of a NumberFormatException , an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException was thrown instead due to an off-by-one error. This fix corr...
Publisher review:MySQL Connector/J is a native Java driver that converts JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) calls into the network protocol used by the MySQL database.
MySQL Connector/J is a tool that helps developers working with the Java programming language easily build programs and applets that interact with MySQL and connect all corporate data, even in a heterogeneous environment.
MySQL Connector/J is a Type IV JDBC driver and has a complete JDBC feature set that supports the capabilities of MySQL.
The driver now also supports "streaming" result sets, which allows users to retrieve large numbers of rows without using a large memory buffer. With newly added large-packet protocol support, the driver can send rows and BLOBs up to 2 gigabytes in size
Requirements:Operating system:Mac OS X
MySQL Connector/J 5.1.31 details 
