MySQL Connector/Python - Release Notes / ChangeLog
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0.3.0
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Highlights:
o Python v2.4 support is back.
o Support for compressed protocol.
o Support for SSL connections (when Python's ssl module is available)
o Support for packets which are bigger than 16MB.
o Max allowed packetsize defaults to 1GB.
o Some performance improvements.

Changes:
o Changing code in python2/ and some unittest code to support Python v2.4.
o Max allowed packetsize is now set to the default of 1GB when authenticating.
o It was not possible to read big packets (>=16MB).
o (Py2) MySQLConnection.recv() has been refactor and simplified.
o (Py3) MySQLConnection.recv() refactored to use bytearray() instead
  of doing string like operations with bytes.
o Adding utils.int8store()
o Fixing utils.read_lc_string() to read big strings.
o (Py3) Optimized utils.read_lc_string_list() using memoryview
o (Py3) Refactored utils.read_lc_int()
o Adding support for the MySQL compressed protocol. To use you need to set
the client constants.ClientFlag.COMPRESS
o Supporting SSL connections when Python's ssl module is available. SSL
certificates and keys can be given during connection using the ssl_ca, ssl_cert, ssl_key=None arguments for MySQLConnection.connect().


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