🚀 v0.2.1: Add native Python support for SHA256 MySQL authentication methods

.github/workflows/ci-cd.yml

@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Set up pip cache
       if: >-
         steps.request-check.outputs.release-requested != 'true'
-      uses: actions/cache@v3.3.1
+      uses: actions/cache@v4
       with:
         path: ${{ steps.pip-cache-dir.outputs.dir }}
         key: >-
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ jobs:
       run: >-
         echo "dir=$(python -m pip cache dir)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
     - name: Set up pip cache
-      uses: actions/cache@v3.3.1
+      uses: actions/cache@v4
       with:
         path: ${{ steps.pip-cache-dir.outputs.dir }}
         key: >-
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ jobs:
         'dist/${{ needs.pre-setup.outputs.sdist-artifact-name }}'
         'dist/${{ needs.pre-setup.outputs.wheel-artifact-name }}'
     - name: Store the distribution packages
-      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
       with:
         name: python-package-distributions
         # NOTE: Exact expected file names are specified here
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ jobs:
       run: >-
         echo "dir=$(python -m pip cache dir)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
     - name: Set up pip cache
-      uses: actions/cache@v3.3.1
+      uses: actions/cache@v4
       with:
         path: ${{ steps.pip-cache-dir.outputs.dir }}
         key: >-
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ jobs:
         ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.release-commitish }}
 
     - name: Download all the dists
-      uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+      uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
       with:
         name: python-package-distributions
         path: dist/
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: Set up pip cache
       if: fromJSON(steps.py-abi.outputs.is-stable-abi)
-      uses: actions/cache@v3.3.1
+      uses: actions/cache@v4
       with:
         path: ${{ steps.pip-cache-dir.outputs.dir }}
         key: >-
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ jobs:
         rm -rf aiomysql
 
     - name: Download all the dists
-      uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+      uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
       with:
         name: python-package-distributions
         path: dist/
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
     - name: Download all the dists
-      uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+      uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
       with:
         name: python-package-distributions
         path: dist/
@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
     - name: Download all the dists
-      uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+      uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
       with:
         name: python-package-distributions
         path: dist/
@@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ jobs:
         ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.release-commitish }}
 
     - name: Download all the dists
-      uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+      uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
       with:
         name: python-package-distributions
         path: dist/

CHANGES.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 Changes
 -------
 
+0.2.1 (2025-07-30)
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+* Add native Python support for SHA256 MySQL authentication methods without requiring cryptography package
+* Implement native RSA encryption using Python standard library for sha256_password and caching_sha2_password
+* Add comprehensive test suite for native authentication methods
+* Enable deployment in No-GIL Python environments and restricted environments where cryptography is unavailable
+* Maintain 100% backward compatibility with automatic fallback to cryptography when available
+
 0.2.0 (2023-06-11)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^