Release Notes
Release Notes
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1.6.11 Bugs Fixed / Improvements
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* Fixed the authentication method that MySQL Installer uses for accessing the My
Oracle Support (MOS) website to permit
downloading commercial MySQL products, which incorrectly parsed special
characters in the Single Sign On (SSO) password.
* MySQL Installer could not upgrade from MySQL Server 8.0.0-8.0.11 as the MSI for
those versions remove the Windows MySQL service
during an upgrade or uninstall operation. Now MySQL Installer shows the Windows
service configuration page during an upgrade from
these old MySQL versions, and provides an option to either create the Windows
service or proceed with the server being run as a
process.
* The Removing Windows Firewall step would fail if the my.ini file was missing a
mysqlx_port definition.
* Removed download support for product versions that reached End of Life (EoL),
including: MySQL Server 5.7 and earlier, MySQL Shell
1.0, MySQL Router 2.x, MySQL NDB Cluster 7.4 and earlier, MySQL Cluster Manager
1.x, MySQL Enterprise Backup 4.1 and earlier,
MySQL Utilities, MySQL Workbench 6.3 and earlier, MySQL Enterprise Monitor 4.0
and earlier, MySQL Notifier, MySQL for Excel,
MySQL for Visual Studio, and documentation specific to the EoL versions.
* Clicking the [X] close button on a wizard's page now yields a confirmation popup
if the wizard is busy executing an operation.
* The status indicator for the product removal selector would not update under
certain conditions.
* The server_type variable was removed from the generated MySQL Server
configuration file, because it was only relevant to MySQL
Installer. This information is now stored in the MySQL Installer settings-
{license}.xml file.
* Removed download support for all connectors. The Installer still detects existing
connector installations and allows uninstalling
them, but they cannot be installed or upgraded. Instead, install and upgrade each
connector from the MySQL Downloads page. The
latest MySQL connector version supports all active MySQL Server versions. For
example, MySQL Connector/Python 9.0.0 supports
and is recommended for MySQL 8.0, 8.4, and 9.0.