Node-mysql2: Release planning information?

[framp]

I'm a user of the library and I'd love to use some of the features that landed in master.
Is there a plan publish the changes from the last months on npm?

It would be great to know if there is a fixed release schedule or if it just slipped by.

Thanks for the library

[sidorares]

Hi!

I'd love to publish everything already merged, maybe you can help? Need to prepare changelog and should be ready to bump

In terms of future plans:

• 8.0 caching_sha2_password ( similar to https://github.com/mysqljs/mysql/pull/1962 but hopefully smaller ) is in works and high priority for me
• new API for auth plugins ( current one is broken and going to be deprecated. This is also requirements for caching_sha2_password implementation ) - will be major version bump
• more stricter checks for number and type of arguments for .execute() ( prepare gives us number and type info which we can use to detect errors earlier - you only want to convert object or array to string if it's JSON parameter, if it's a number worth erroring earlier )
• https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/pull/814 if there is no objection to new api, and maybe soft deprecate .beginTransaction() as suggested there

[sidorares]

there is heaps of probably more valuable work that is not new features - review and close outdated prs/issues, improve docs that is not covered by mysqljs/mysql ( createServer() api, binlog etc )

[framp]

Absolutely, PR incoming!

Thanks for the info, really appreciated
I had no idea it was a stopper, so thanks a lot also for the quick reply.