Executing AdminAPI commands on a server with a version of Python lower than 2.7 was failing without the correct error message. (Bug #25975317)

When using MySQL Shell on Windows any files created or opened, for example those used during dba.createSandboxInstance(), could not be deleted. (Bug #25789094)

The help for dba.configureLocalInstance(instance[, options]) has been improved to describe the returned JSON object. (Bug #25703028)

When using dba.deploySandboxInstance() and passing in sandboxDir, the specified path must not exceed 89 characters. (Bug #25485035)

removeInstance() resulted in unexpected behavior in some cases, for example when an empty password was passed as part of the URI to the instance. (Bug #25111911)

Creating Classic sessions that connect using Unix sockets now uses the correct defaults such as hostname. This resolves the previous limitation of using Unix sockets to connect to InnoDB cluster instances. See MySQL Shell Connections for information on how the defaults are applied to socket connections. (Bug #24848763, Bug #26036466)

References: See also: Bug #24911068.

On an instance configured as a multithreaded replica, in other words slave_parallel_workers set to greater than 0, and with slave_parallel_type=DATABASE, dba.checkInstanceConfiguration() was not detecting that the instance was not correctly configured for InnoDB cluster usage.

If removeInstance() failed due to a connection error, an error was reported but the instance was incorrectly removed from the InnoDB cluster metadata, and remained part of the replication group. The fix ensures the metadata is correctly updated according to the result of removeInstance().

In a situation where a new primary instance was elected, adding a new instance to the cluster resulted in an error due to a failed connection to the previous primary instance.

The functions that modify server variables, such as dba.createCluster() and dba.validateInstance() now provide more information in interactive mode output and log output about server variables which are changed when executed.

Deploying instances to paths with directories that contained spaces was failing without error. Use double backslash to specify such paths, for example D:\\Cluster\\foo bar.

The Cluster object obtained from functions such as dba.createCluster() or dba.getCluster() became unusable once the Shell session in which the object was created is was connected to a different server. The fix modifies the Cluster object so that:

Calling the modify() or remove() function without a parameter caused the function to be executed against the whole collection, which could cause unexpected results such as deleting all rows in a table. To avoid this and make the behavior consistent with update() and delete(), a client-side exception is now thrown if the modify() or remove() function is called without a parameter. Now, to execute the modify() or remove() function against a collection call them with an expression that evaluates to true, for example remove('true') or modify('true'). (WL #10710)

The options in the MySQL Shell options dictionary are now fully documented. (Bug #25701345)

shell.connect() did not report an error if an invalid argument was used. An ArgumentError is now issued for any invalid argument.

The following mutually exclusive pairs of options are now checked, and an error is issued if both are specified:

(Bug #25268670)

References: See also: Bug #24911173.

A number of issues with the output of shell.help("prompt") have been corrected. (Bug #25026855, Bug #25242638, Bug #25676343, Bug #25176769)

MySQL Shell now displays an invalid year as 0000, matching the behavior of the MySQL prompt, rather than as 0. (Bug #24912061)

MySQL Shell did not display fractional seconds for values in DATETIME columns. (Bug #24911885)

Some issues with the MySQL Shell command line help output were fixed. (Bug #24841749, Bug #24841493, Bug #24910540)

URIs were incorrectly parsed in MySQL Shell when passwords were hidden. (Bug #24793956)

mysqlsh stopped responding if the \source command was given a directory (rather than file) argument. (Bug #23097932, Bug #81060)