Could we have a new release? (0.5.4)

[casperisfine]

Sorry for asking this, I know it's a bit annoying for maintainers. But there's a bunch of important fixes on master and there wasn't any release in over a year.

We've been using mysql2 as a git gem for a long time, and I'd love if we could finally go back to a published version.

[casperisfine]

@sodabrew sorry to insist, but it's really annoying to have to use the git gem on all new projects.

[TomA-R]

This would be really useful, maybe @brianmario or @tenderlove could help? Thanks a lot in advance

[tenderlove]

I have access to do a release, but I haven't committed to this project in quite a while. @sodabrew do you have time to ship a release? If not, I can take care of it (but I don't want to step on your toes 🙇🏻‍♂️)

[sodabrew]

Thanks for the nudge, I really do need to do this!

[polyedre]

Hi! Any update on this ? 😃

[listerino]

Happy 2 year anniversary to the last release! 🎉 57 commits and 1300 lines of change later, it seems like cutting a new release is simply too much effort. Can we get another maintainer @sodabrew? Otherwise maybe @tenderlove can take this task over?

[simi]

I think we should fix master CI first. @listerino I think you're more than welcomed to help on that. I can try to spend some time on that during the weekend as well.

[listerino]

That's a fair point, @simi! I'll have a look into it, thank you for also volunteering, it's appreciated

[casperisfine]

I think we should fix master CI first.

There are currently 3 issues on CI:

• One client session tracking test fail against mysql 8: CI Failure: Session tracking test failing against mysql 8 #1220 I pinged the original author and he's a college so I'll make sure to followup on that one.
• There's a small Ruby 3.1 change, I submitted a PR for it: Update Mysql2::Result spec for Ruby 3.1 #1219
• Then there's two date casting test that need to be updated for mysql 8 tests: Invalid DATETIME test fails with mysql >= 8.0.24 #1208, I'll submit a PR too.

[casperisfine]

For the datetime one: #1221

So only the session tracking one has no fix yet.

[listerino]

You're a machine, thank you, Jean. I was planning to set my weekend aside to investigate what took you ~2 hours - fingers crossed your fixes get reviewed&merged!

[casperisfine]

The original problem remains though, I'll see with @tenderlove for the merges on next week, but it would be best if @sodabrew was around for the actual release.

[TomA-R]

Seems like we owe a thank you to our friends at Shopify for looking into the CI issues - thanks guys!