The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.51, MariaDB Connector/J 1.5.0 RC, and MariaDB Connector/C 2.3.1. See the release notes and changelogs for details on these releases. Download MariaDB 5.5.51 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 5.5? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator Download MariaDB Connector/J 1.5.0 RC Release […]

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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.50, MariaDB Connector/J 1.4.6, and MariaDB Connector/ODBC 2.0.11. See the release notes and changelogs for details on these releases. Download MariaDB 5.5.50 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 5.5? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator Download MariaDB Connector/J 1.4.6 Release Notes Changelog […]

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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.1.14, and MariaDB Connector/J 1.4.4. See the release notes and changelogs for details on these releases. Download MariaDB 10.1.14 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.1? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator Download MariaDB Connector/J 1.4.4 Release Notes Changelog About MariaDB Connector/J […]

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I’m pleased to announce that MySQL Connector/J 5.1.39 Maintenance Release is now generally available.

MySQL Connector/J can be downloaded from the official distribution channels MySQL Downloads and The Central Repository. The commercially licensed version is available for download at My Oracle Support.

As always, we recommend that you check the CHANGES file in the download archive and/or the release notes page to know what is new and if there are any changes that might affect your applications.

With MySQL Connector/J 5.1.39 you get the continuously …

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.49, MariaDB Connector/J 1.4.3, and MariaDB Connector/C 2.2.3. See the release notes and changelogs for details on these releases. Download MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.49 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB Galera Cluster? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator Download MariaDB […]

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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.49, MariaDB Connector/J 1.4.2, and MariaDB Connector/ODBC 2.0.10. See the release notes and changelogs for details on these releases. Download MariaDB 5.5.49 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 5.5? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator Download MariaDB Connector/J 1.4.2 Release Notes Changelog […]

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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.1.13, and MariaDB Connector/J 1.3.7. See the release notes and changelogs for details on these releases. Download MariaDB 10.1.13 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.1? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator Download MariaDB Connector/J 1.3.7 Release Notes Changelog About MariaDB Connector/J […]

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A couple of weeks ago we announced that we were moving from a hosted instance of JIRA to our self hosted instance. The main reason was that we hit 2000 active users in the hosted instance of JIRA and that is the upper limit that it  supports. We obviously wanted to allow more people to […]

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With Python you would normally use MySQL Connector/Python or the older MySQLdb to connect from Python to MySQL, but there are more options.

There are also multiple Python implementations: CPython (the main implementation), PyPy, Jython and IronPython. PyPy tries to be faster than CPython by using a Just-in-Time compiler. Jython runs on the JVM and IronPython runs on the .NET CLR.

Connector/Python by default (Without the C Extension) is a pure Python implementation and can work with most if not all implementations. And for MySQLdb there is a drop-in replacement called PyMySQL, which is a pure python implementation.

So there are many options …

MySQL Connector/Java 5.1.38 was released earlier this week, and it includes a notable improvement related to secure connections.  Here’s how the change log describes it:

When connecting to a MySQL server 5.7 instance that supports TLS, Connector/J now prefers a TLS over a plain TCP connection.

This mirrors changes made in 5.7 to the behavior of MySQL command-line clients and libmysql client library.  Coupled with the streamlined/automatic generation of TLS key material to ensure TLS availability in MySQL Server 5.7 deployments, this is an important step towards providing secure communication in default deployments.

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