JS 2.12 Broken pipe error on MySQL

[Rick Mortensen]

When I upgraded to JS 2.1.2 ­ with MySQL as the db ­ if the portal is idle
for 8 hours ­ the portal loses the connection and throws the following
error:

** BEGIN NESTED EXCEPTION **

java.net.SocketException
MESSAGE: Broken pipe

I¹m using the same MySQL version and JDBC driver.  Adding the
?autoReconnect=true parameter to the jdbc url does not seem to help.
Increasing the timeout settings on mysql does resolve ­ but not a good idea
to do that.

Has anyone else seen this behavior with 2.1.2?  Did not have any issues with
previous versions.