MySQL Shell now enables you to create and configure the MySQL user accounts required by InnoDB Cluster, InnoDB ReplicaSet, and MySQL Router using AdminAPI operations. Previously, accounts required by InnoDB Cluster and InnoDB ReplicaSet had to be configured using the clusterAdmin option, and accounts required by MySQL Router had to be configured manually using SQL. The following AdminAPI operations are now available:

(WL #13536)

AdminAPI now uses a locking mechanism to avoid different operations from performing changes on an InnoDB ReplicaSet simultaneously. Previously, different instances of MySQL Shell could connect to an InnoDB ReplicaSet at the same time and execute AdminAPI operations simultaneously. This could lead to inconsistent instance states and errors, for example if ReplicaSet.addInstance() and ReplicaSet.setPrimary() were executed in parallel.

Now, the InnoDB ReplicaSet operations have the following locking:

(WL #13540)

References: See also: Bug #30349849.

Use the --replicaset option to configure MySQL Shell to work with an InnoDB ReplicaSet at start up. You must specify a connection to a replica set instance for this option to work correctly. If a replica set is found, this option populates the rs global object, which can then be used to work with the InnoDB ReplicaSet. As part of this addition, the --redirect-primary and --redirect-secondary options have been updated to also work with InnoDB ReplicaSet.

When running MySQL Shell, use the shell.connectToPrimary([connectionData, password]) to check whether the target instance belongs to an InnoDB Cluster or InnoDB ReplicaSet. If so, MySQL Shell opens a new session to the primary, sets the global session to the established session and returns it. If no connectionData is provided, the current global session is used. (WL #13236)

During distributed recovery which is using MySQL Clone, the instance restarts after the data files are cloned, but if the instance has to apply a large back log of transactions to finish the recovery process, then the restart process could take longer than the default 1 minute timeout. Now, when there is a large back log use the dba.restartWaitTimeout option to configure a longer timeout to ensure the apply process has time to process the transactions. (Bug #30866632)

The dba.deleteSandboxInstance() operation did not provide an error if you attempted to delete a sandbox which did not exist. Now, in such a situation the dba.deleteSandboxInstance() operation throws a runtimeError. (Bug #30863587)

The Cluster.forceQuorumUsingPartitionOf() operation was not stopping Group Replication on any reachable instances that were not part of the visible membership of the target instance, which could lead to undefined behavior if any of those instances were automatically rejoining the cluster. The fix stops Group Replication on any reachable instances that are not included in the new forced quorum membership. (Bug #30739252)

It was possible for AdminAPI to select an invalidated instance as the latest primary, despite it having a lower view_id. This was because the process of getting the primary of the InnoDB ReplicaSet was incorrectly reconnecting to an invalidated member if it was the last instance in the InnoDB ReplicaSet. (Bug #30735124)

When a cluster that was created with a MySQL Shell version lower than 8.0.19 was offline (for example after a server upgrade of the instances), if you then used MySQL Shell 8.0.19 to connect to the cluster, dba.upgradeMetadata() and dba.rebootClusterFromCompleteOutage() blocked each other. You could not run dba.upgradeMetadata() because it requires dba.rebootClusterFromCompleteOutage() to be run first to bring the cluster back online. And you could not run dba.rebootClusterFromCompleteOutage() because dba.upgradeMetadata() had not been run. To avoid this problem please upgrade to MySQL Shell 8.0.20, where the preconditions for dba.rebootClusterFromCompleteOutage() and dba.forceQuorumUsingPartitionOf() have been updated to ensure they are compatible with clusters created using earlier versions. In other words, they are available even if the metadata was created using an older MySQL Shell version. (Bug #30661129)

Using MySQL Clone as the distributed recovery method to add an instance to an InnoDB ReplicaSet resulted in a segmentation fault if the target instance did not support RESTART. Now, the ReplicaSet.addInstance() operation aborts in such a situation and reverts changes after the connection timeout limit is reached. This is because the add operation needs to connect to the target instance to finish the operation. In such a situation, if it is not possible to upgrade the instance to a version of MySQL which supports RESTART, you have to restart the server manually, and then issue ReplicaSet.addInstance() again to retry. The retry can then use incremental recovery, which does not trigger the clone and the subsequent restart. (Bug #30657911)

Cluster.addInstance() normally fails if there are errant GTIDs in the added instance, but if MySQL Clone is being used for distributed recovery, that check is bypassed because the cloning process fixes the problem. However, if all members are using IPv6, MySQL Clone cannot be used, so incremental recovery is used instead. In such a situation, the instance was being added to the cluster without errors, but the errant transaction persisted. Now, if all of the cluster's online instances are using IPv6 addresses and the operation tries to use MySQL Clone for distributed recovery, an error is thrown. (Bug #30645697)

When an InnoDB Cluster or InnoDB ReplicaSet is using the MySQL Clone plugin, AdminAPI ensures the performance_schema.clone_status table is cleared out when the clone process starts. However, in some rare and very specific scenarios a race condition could happen and the clone operation was considered to be running before actually clearing out the table. In this situation, the MySQL Shell clone monitoring could result in an unexpected halt.

As part of this fix, a potential infinite loop in the clone monitoring phase that could happen very rarely when the cloning process was extremely fast has also been fixed. (Bug #30645665)

Group Replication system variable queries were being executed early, without considering whether the Group Replication plugin was installed yet. Now, the reboot operation has been fixed so that if system variable queries fail with ER_UNKNOWN_SYSTEM_VARIABLE then the Group Replication plugin is installed automatically. (Bug #30531848)

The Cluster.removeInstance(instance) operation was not correctly handling the following cases:

(Bug #30501628, Bug #30625424)

After operations such as removing an instance or dissolving a cluster, the group_replication_recovery and group_replication_applier replication channels were not being removed. (Bug #29922719, Bug #30878446)

The default location of the MySQL option file, for example /etc/my.cnf, stopped being detected by the dba.configureInstance() operation on some platforms (Debian and so on). This was a regression. The fix ensures that the predefined paths to option files matches the defaults, such as /etc/my.cnf and /etc/mysql/my.cnf. (Bug #96490, Bug #30171324)

A new method shell.openSession is provided in the shell global object to let you create and return a session object, rather than set it as the global session for MySQL Shell. (WL #13328)

You can now request compression for MySQL Shell connections that use X Protocol, as well as those that use classic MySQL protocol. For X Protocol connections, the default is that compression is requested, and uncompressed connections are allowed if the negotiations for a compressed connection do not succeed. For classic MySQL protocol connections, the default is that compression is disabled. After the connection has been made, the MySQL Shell \status command shows whether or not compression is in use for a session.

New compression controls in MySQL Shell let you specify in the connection parameters whether compression is required, preferred, or disabled, select compression algorithms for the connection, and specify a numeric compression level for the algorithms. (WL #13328)

When you create an extension object for MySQL Shell, the options key is no longer required when you specify a parameter of the data type "dictionary". If you do define options for a dictionary, MySQL Shell validates the options specified by the end user and raises an error if an option is passed to the function that is not in this list. If you create a dictionary with no list of options, any options that the end user specifies for the dictionary are passed directly through to the function by MySQL Shell with no validation. (Bug #30986260)

A bug in MySQL Shell 8.0.19, affecting classic MySQL protocol connections only, meant that access was denied if a user had stored the connection's password with MySQL Shell and then changed it. The password store now removes invalid passwords and presents the user with a password prompt as expected. (Bug #30912984, Bug #98503)

When MySQL Shell's \source command was used in interactive mode to execute code from a script file, multi-line SQL statements in the script file could cause MySQL Shell to enter a loop of repeatedly executing the script. The issue has now been fixed. (Bug #30906751, Bug #98625)

If a stored procedure was called in MySQL Shell but its result was not used, any subsequent SQL statement returned a result set error, and exiting MySQL Shell at that point resulted in an incorrect shutdown. MySQL Shell cleared the first result set retrieved by a stored procedure in order to run a subsequent SQL statement, but did not check for any additional result sets that had been retrieved, which were left behind and caused the error. This check is now carried out and the additional result sets are discarded before another statement is executed. (Bug #30825330)

Due to a regression in MySQL Shell 8.0.19, the upgrade checker utility checkForServerUpgrade() did not accept any runtime options if connection data was not provided as the first argument. The issue has been fixed and the utility's argument checking has been enhanced. (Bug #30689606)

MySQL Shell, which now bundles Python 3.7.4, could not be built from source with Python 3.8. The incompatibilities have now been corrected so Python 3.8 may be used. (Bug #30640012)

MySQL Shell's upgrade checker utility checkForServerUpgrade() did not flag removed system variables that were specified using hyphens rather than underscores. The utility also now continues with its sequence of checks if a permissions check cannot be performed at the required time. (Bug #30615030, Bug #97855)

MySQL Shell's \status command showed that a connection was compressed if the connection had been created while starting MySQL Shell, but not if it was created after starting MySQL Shell. Compression is now shown in both cases. (Bug #29006903)