Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[3.1.0] - 2026-01-20

🐛 Fixed

• Fix custom endpoint plugin incorrectly failing over to excluded members (Issue #1662).
• Keep reader failover connection open if failover succeeded (PR #1674).
• Fix connection failure error message with the initial connection plugin (PR #1675).
• Limit refresh rate backoff in Custom Endpoint Plugin, and speedup after successful calls (PR #1650).

🦀 Changed

• Use try-with-resources ResourceLock to lock (PR #1659).
• Improve connection garbage collecting by using LazyCleaner (Java 11+ and Java 8) (PR #1661).
• Improve connection management in RW Splitting Plugin (PR #1673).
• Documentation:
  • Clarify driver support for Global Databases and update maven search (PR #1653).
  • Fix gradle snapshot example (PR #1651).
  • Various improvements (PR #1654).
  • Improve srw plugin documentation when using non-RDS clusters (PR #1657).
  • Remove incorrect cluster- prefix from global instance endpoints in examples (PR #1664 and PR #1672).

🪄 Added

• Add ability to configure internal connection pool with configuration parameters (PR #1658).
• Add connection parameters to configure client-sided secrets expiration time and allow custom Secret Value parsing in Secrets Manager Plugin (PR #1663 and PR #1671).
• Configurable instance substitution and role verification in AuroraInitialConnectionStrategyPlugin (initialConnection plugin) (PR #1655).
• Documentation:
  • Added plugin version availability (PR #1656).
  • Added explicit instructions for global databases (PR #1660).
  • Document how the custom annotations work (PR #1564).