Prepare release 2.2.3

Author: nmariz

CHANGES.txt

@@ -3,11 +3,25 @@ MySQL Connector/Python 2.2 - Release Notes & Changes
 ====================================================
 
 MySQL Connector/Python
-Copyright (c) 2009, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2009, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 
 Full release notes:
  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-python/en/
 
+v2.2.3
+======
+WL#10452: Add Protobuf C++ extension for Linux variants and Mac OSX
+WL#10081: DevAPI: IPv6 support
+BUG#25614860: Fix defined_as method in the view creation
+BUG#25519251: SelectStatement does not implement order_by() method
+BUG#25436568: Update available operators for XPlugin
+BUG#24954006: Add missing items in CHANGES.txt
+BUG#24953913: Fix unittests that are failing in Linux
+BUG#24578507: Fix import error using Python 2.6
+BUG#23636962: Fix improper error message when creating a Session
+BUG#23568207: Fix default aliases for projection fields
+BUG#23567724: Fix operator names
+
 v2.2.2
 ======
 

README.txt

@@ -3,15 +3,15 @@ MySQL Connector/Python 2.2
 ==========================
 
 MySQL Connector/Python
-Copyright (c) 2009, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2009, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 
 License information can be found in the LICENSE.txt file.
 
 
 Requirements
 ============
 
-Python Protobuf (version >= 3.0.0)
+Protobuf C++ (version >= 2.6.0)
 https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/downloads
 
 
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ doubt, this particular copy of the software is released
 under the version 2 of the GNU General Public License.
 MySQL Connector/Python is brought to you by Oracle.
 
-Copyright (c) 2011, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2011, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 
 License information can be found in the LICENSE.txt file.
 

cpyint

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # MySQL Connector/Python - MySQL driver written in Python.
-# Copyright (c) 2012, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2012, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 
 # MySQL Connector/Python is licensed under the terms of the GPLv2
 # <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>, like most
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 as mysql.connector.version.
 """
 
-VERSION = (2, 2, 2, 'b', 1)
+VERSION = (2, 2, 3, 'b', 1)
 
 if VERSION[3] and VERSION[4]:
     VERSION_TEXT = '{0}.{1}.{2}{3}{4}'.format(*VERSION)