The mysql-python project is five years old today, and just short of a quarter of a million downloads. Somehow I've managed to move up into the top 30 project list, but I expect that's due in large part to attrition. MySQL moved their source repository off a couple years ago and switched to BitKeeper. Guido van Rossum got tired of waiting around for Subversion support and the long delay updating the anonymous CVS servers and got a Subversion server hosted, just before SourceForge opened up Subversion for everyone. I plan to stick around and start using Subversion immediately after releasing MySQL-1.2.1.... read more

Here's hoping the seventh time's the charm for MySQLdb-1.2.1. Consider this last call for bugs, and I hope to release 1.2.1 on March 8. Please test.

I've released MySQLdb-1.1.8, which I hope will be the final release before 1.2.0. Please test this release and report any bugs you find. I am particularly interested in build warnings and errors, and anything that requires you to edit setup.py. There may still be issues on Mac OS X and Windows, but these are platforms that I cannot test on myself.

If you want to submit a binary package for any operating system, please send me the URL for your package, and I will add it to the release. The file name must include version information for MySQLdb (obviously), MySQL, and Python. For example, if you were to send me a Windows installer for MySQLdb-1.1.8 that was compiled for MySQL-4.1.8 and Python-2.4, I would expect it to look something like this:... read more

I have released MySQLdb-1.1.5. I hope that this will become the final 1.2.0 in a week or two, barring any new bugs which may crop up. Report bugs to the bug tracker (https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=22307&atid=374932).

In it's current form, 1.1.5 probably requires at least Python-2.3. I do all my testing with Python-2.3, so it might work with 2.2. If it doesn't presently, could probably make it work without too much effort. I can't make it work for earlier versions because I'm using new-style classes. If you need MySQLdb to work for older versions (1.5.2 through 2.1.x), use the 1.0.x series.... read more

It's been a very long time in the making, but MySQLdb has finally been released on the 60th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Europe. 1.0.0 really should have been released a year or more ago, but I have not had as much time as I once did, and there were technical issues that I finally decided to push off to the 1.1-1.2 series, which drop support for very old versions of Python. Look for 1.2 to arrive within the next month, but don't hold your breath, either.

Development on MySQL-python has been a lot slower than I expected, primarily because a new job ate up a lot of my time. However I have managed to get the first 1.0.0 release candidate out during my vacation.

I came to the conclusion that if I was going to get anything accomplished, I needed to have some intermediary releases before 2.0. So here's the revised roadmap:

1.0: Supports all versions of Python from 1.5.2 to 2.3.4 (currently a release candidate), and all MySQL versions from late 3.22 through 4.0 but not 4.1 and later. 1.0.0 should definitely be out around Memorial Day weekend, barring any major disasters. However, there are some issues that are nearly impossible to resolve while maintaining compatibility with Python 1.5.2.... read more

I've (finally) put out a new test release for 0.9.3/1.0.0. This fixes a couple of known bugs. I've cleared out all of the old bugs that I think are fixed by this; feel free to reopen them if you can demonstrate that they are not.

I have only tested using Python-2.2.3 and MySQL-4.0.13. If you find problems with other versions, submit a bug. I plan to test with Python-2.3b2 myself shortly.

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MySQL-python version 0.9.3 (or 1.0.0) should be released sometime this summer, probably before OSCon 2003 (http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/). As last year, I will be giving a tutorial on Python and Relational Databases, Featuring MySQL (http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2003/view/e_sess/4133).

Based current developments with both Python and MySQL, I've decided to make the following development fork:... read more

There is a new package for prerelease versions of MySQL-python: mysql-python-test. From this point on, only final releases will go in mysql-python, and pre-releases (alpha, betas, gammas) will go in mysql-python-test. If pre-releases interest you, then monitor this package...

MySQL-python (MySQLdb) 0.9.0 is finally released. 0.9.0 features a new package structure and improved documentation. A number of small bugs have been fixed. Transactions have been tested using MySQL-Max and InnoDB tables and appear to work properly.

ZMySQLDA-2.0.7 has also been co-released. It has a much improved table browser and the ability to force transactions on or off.