Bug #61386 Can't connect to MySQL Community '6.0.10-alpha' with characterEncoding=utf8
Submitted: 2 Jun 2011 13:10 Modified: 2 Jun 2011 14:16
Reporter: Agata Vackova Email Updates:
Status: Unsupported Impact on me:
None 
Category:Connector / J Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:mysql-connector-java-5.1.15 OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[2 Jun 2011 13:10] Agata Vackova
Description:
When I try to connect to MySQL server with parameter characterEncoding=utf8 I get following exception:
Caused by: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Unknown character set: 'utf8mb4'
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:407)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.getInstance(Util.java:382)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:1052)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:3603)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:3535)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:1989)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:2150)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2620)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.configureClientCharacterSet(ConnectionImpl.java:1832)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.initializePropsFromServer(ConnectionImpl.java:3523)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.connectOneTryOnly(ConnectionImpl.java:2386)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:2163)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.<init>(ConnectionImpl.java:794)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.JDBC4Connection.<init>(JDBC4Connection.java:47)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:407)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.getInstance(ConnectionImpl.java:378)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:305)
	at org.jetel.connection.jdbc.specific.conn.DefaultConnection.connect(DefaultConnection.java:474)
	... 10 more

How to repeat:
Connect to MySQL Community '6.0.10-alpha' with following URL:
jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test?characterEncoding=utf8
[2 Jun 2011 14:16] Valeriy Kravchuk
MySQL 6.0.x had never been released as GA version officially, it is unsupported and no longer available even from dev.mysql.com.

I truly doubt that Connector/J should be changed in any way to work with this server version.