What's Changed

• Ruby 3.2 deprecates double_heap option to GC.verify_compaction_references by @yahonda in https://github.com/brianmario/mysql2/pull/1365
• Add ruby-3.3 to CI by @VitaliySerov in https://github.com/brianmario/mysql2/pull/1340
• Add bigdecimal to runtime dependencies by @nekketsuuu in https://github.com/brianmario/mysql2/pull/1367
• Add vector type added in MySQL 9.0 by...

What's changed

• Support utf8mb3 charset naming for MySQL 8 and MariaDB 10.6. (#1323) @jeremy
• Support for libmysqlclient 8.3 (#1346, #1352, #1353) @xjunior @flavorjones

New

• Support for Ruby GC compaction (#1192)
• Add --with-openssl-dir option for improved linking with OpenSSL (#1303)

Changed

• Lock on the current Fiber rather than current Thread (#1284)
• Improve SSL support on MySQL 5.6.36+ and MariaDB Connector/C 3.0+ (#1304, #1306)
• Additional search paths to find MySQL libraries by Homebrew (#1278)
• README: Improve docs for SSL/TLS (#1142,...

What's Changed

• The taint mechanism will be deprecated in Ruby 2.7 by @kamipo in https://github.com/brianmario/mysql2/pull/1083
• Made argument types strict for ruby 2.7 by @nobu in https://github.com/brianmario/mysql2/pull/1096
• Update rake (and rake-compiler) to suppress the warning. by @junaruga in https://github.com/brianmario/mysql2/pull/1099
• Fix crash if a Mysql2::Client object is...

New Features

• Expose Windows client authentication (#1018)

Bug Fixes

• Support more MySQL encodings and warn rather than crash on unsupported encodings (#1040)

Changes

• Precompiled mysql2 gem for Windows supports Ruby 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6. Windows Ruby 2.0 and 2.1 are dropped.
• Keyword arguments have to be explicitly double-splatted in Ruby 2.7+ (#1084)
• Add Centos...