Dear Perl and MySQL community, We're pleased to announce the release of DBD::mysql 4.033_01. This is not a 'stable' release but merely for testing and feedback. We'll put out a stable 4.034 release soon; probably before christmas.
** Linking against SSL by default? ** Apart from that, I'd like to announce that we might want to link to SSL by default. MySQL 5.7 makes SSL connections to databases more common; right now in DBD::mysql you'd need to pass an option to Makefile.PL (-ssl) in order to enable linking to libssl. Of course, many people (and linux distributions!) don't do this by default. On the expense of the added dependency to libssl we'd want to default to compiling against libssl. We'd introduce a --no-ssl flag for the cases where you'd explicitly NOT want to link to SSL. When DBD::mysql is compiled against libssl you can still make connections to not-sslified servers. Any feedback (+1's, remarks or objections) would be appreciated! ** Changelog for this development release ** 2015-12-15 Patrick Galbraith, Michiel Beijen, DBI/DBD community (4.033_01) * Raise minimum DBI version to 1.609 (from 2009!) in order to make tests pass on RHEL5. * Add explicit documentation for how to enable SSL at build time, provided by genio. * Improve test suite to make it more robust using mixed versions of client and server. * Fix use after free error in my_login, provided by hannob. * Add explicit instructions stating brackets are required around ipv6-addresses in connection strings, provided by Kenny Gryp. https://metacpan.org/release/MICHIELB/DBD-mysql-4.033_01 https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql Regards, Patrick and Michiel
