History updates for 1.2.4b2

MySQLdb/HISTORY

@@ -1,3 +1,39 @@
+=====================
+ What's new in 1.2.4
+=====================
+
+beta 2
+======
+
+Reverted an accidental change in the exception format. (issue #1)
+
+Reverted some raise statements so that they will continue to work with Python < 2.6
+
+
+beta 1
+======
+
+A lot of work has been done towards Python 3 compatibility, and avoiding warnings with Python 2.7.
+This includes import changes, converting dict.has_kay(k) to k in dict, updating some test suite methods, etc.
+
+Due to the difficulties of supporting Python 3 and Python < 2.7, 1.2.4 will support Python 2.4 though 2.7.
+1.3.0 will support Python 3 and Python 2.7 and 2.6.
+
+MySQLdb-2.0 is instead going to become moist-1.0. See https://github.com/farcepest/moist
+
+The Windows build has been simplified, and I plan to correct pre-built i386 packages built
+against the python.org Python-2.7 package and MySQL Connector/C-6.0. Contact me if you
+need ia64 packages.
+
+The connection's cursorclass (if not default) was being lost on reconnect.
+
+Newer versions of MySQL don't use OpenSSL and therefore don't have HAVE_SSL defined, but they do have
+a different SSL library. Fixed this so SSL support would be enabled in this case.
+
+The regex that looked for SQL INSERT statement and VALUES in cursor.executemany() was made case-insensitive
+again.
+
+
 =====================
  What's new in 1.2.3
 =====================

MySQLdb/metadata.cfg

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [metadata]
-version: 1.2.4b1
-version_info: (1,2,4,'beta',1)
+version: 1.2.4b2
+version_info: (1,2,4,'beta',2)
 description: Python interface to MySQL
 long_description: 
         =========================
@@ -11,12 +11,10 @@ long_description:
         Python.  The design goals are:
         \n
         - Compliance with Python database API version 2.0 [PEP-0249]_
-        \n
         - Thread-safety
-        \n
         - Thread-friendliness (threads will not block each other) 
         \n
-        MySQL-3.23 through 5.0 and Python-2.3 through 2.6 are currently
+        MySQL-3.23 through 5.5 and Python-2.4 through 2.7 are currently
         supported. Python-3.0 will be supported in a future release.
         \n
         MySQLdb is `Free Software`_.
@@ -25,7 +23,7 @@ long_description:
         .. _`Free Software`: http://www.gnu.org/
         .. [PEP-0249] http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0249.html
 author: Andy Dustman
-author_email: adustman@users.sourceforge.net
+author_email: farcepest@gmail.com
 license: GPL
 platforms: ALL
 url: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python