[1.10.x] Updated links to the current version of MySQL docs.

Backport of 9819676676 from master

django/contrib/gis/db/backends/mysql/operations.py

@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ class MySQLOperations(BaseSpatialOperations, DatabaseOperations):
             converters.append(self.convert_invalid_empty_geometry_collection)
         return converters
 
-    # https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/spatial-function-argument-handling.html
+    # https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/spatial-function-argument-handling.html
     # MySQL 5.7.5 adds support for the empty geometry collections, but they are represented with invalid WKT.
     def convert_invalid_empty_geometry_collection(self, value, expression, connection, context):
         if value == b'GEOMETRYCOLLECTION()':

django/db/backends/mysql/base.py

@@ -80,9 +80,7 @@ django_conversions.update({
 })
 
 # This should match the numerical portion of the version numbers (we can treat
-# versions like 5.0.24 and 5.0.24a as the same). Based on the list of version
-# at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/news.html and
-# http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/news.html .
+# versions like 5.0.24 and 5.0.24a as the same).
 server_version_re = re.compile(r'(\d{1,2})\.(\d{1,2})\.(\d{1,2})')
 
 

docs/ref/contrib/gis/db-api.txt

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ MySQL Spatial Limitations
 MySQL's spatial extensions only support bounding box operations
 (what MySQL calls minimum bounding rectangles, or MBR).  Specifically,
 `MySQL does not conform to the OGC standard
-<https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/spatial-relation-functions.html>`_:
+<https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/spatial-relation-functions.html>`_:
 
     Currently, MySQL does not implement these functions
     [``Contains``, ``Crosses``, ``Disjoint``, ``Intersects``, ``Overlaps``,
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ Aggregate                PostGIS  Oracle  SpatiaLite
 .. [#fnewkb] *See* `PostGIS EWKB, EWKT and Canonical Forms <http://postgis.net/docs/manual-2.1/using_postgis_dbmanagement.html#EWKB_EWKT>`_, PostGIS documentation at Ch. 4.1.2.
 .. [#fngeojson] *See* Howard Butler, Martin Daly, Allan Doyle, Tim Schaub, & Christopher Schmidt, `The GeoJSON Format Specification <http://geojson.org/geojson-spec.html>`_, Revision 1.0 (June 16, 2008).
 .. [#fndistsphere15] *See* `PostGIS documentation <http://postgis.net/docs/manual-2.1/ST_Distance_Sphere.html>`_ on ``ST_distance_sphere``.
-.. [#fnmysqlidx] *See* `Creating Spatial Indexes <https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/creating-spatial-indexes.html>`_
+.. [#fnmysqlidx] *See* `Creating Spatial Indexes <https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/creating-spatial-indexes.html>`_
    in the MySQL Reference Manual:
 
         For MyISAM tables, ``SPATIAL INDEX`` creates an R-tree index. For storage

docs/ref/databases.txt

@@ -232,9 +232,9 @@ running ``migrate``::
         1005, "Can't create table '\\db_name\\.#sql-4a8_ab' (errno: 150)"
     )
 
-.. _storage engines: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/storage-engines.html
-.. _MyISAM: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/myisam-storage-engine.html
-.. _InnoDB: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-storage-engine.html
+.. _storage engines: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/storage-engines.html
+.. _MyISAM: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/myisam-storage-engine.html
+.. _InnoDB: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/innodb-storage-engine.html
 
 .. [#] Unless this was changed by the packager of your MySQL package. We've
    had reports that the Windows Community Server installer sets up InnoDB as
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ If you plan on using Django's :doc:`timezone support </topics/i18n/timezones>`,
 use `mysql_tzinfo_to_sql`_ to load time zone tables into the MySQL database.
 This needs to be done just once for your MySQL server, not per database.
 
-.. _mysql_tzinfo_to_sql: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-tzinfo-to-sql.html
+.. _mysql_tzinfo_to_sql: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/mysql-tzinfo-to-sql.html
 
 Creating your database
 ----------------------
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ You can `create your database`_ using the command-line tools and this SQL::
 
 This ensures all tables and columns will use UTF-8 by default.
 
-.. _create your database: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/create-database.html
+.. _create your database: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/create-database.html
 
 .. _mysql-collation:
 
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ the MySQL documentation. In all cases, you set the collation by directly
 manipulating the database tables; Django doesn't provide a way to set this on
 the model definition.
 
-.. _documented thoroughly: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/charset.html
+.. _documented thoroughly: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/charset.html
 
 By default, with a UTF-8 database, MySQL will use the
 ``utf8_general_ci`` collation. This results in all string equality
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ you should use ``utf8_general_ci`` because it is faster. If this is not acceptab
 (for example, if you require German dictionary order), use ``utf8_unicode_ci``
 because it is more accurate.
 
-.. _MySQL Unicode Character Sets: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/charset-unicode-sets.html
+.. _MySQL Unicode Character Sets: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/charset-unicode-sets.html
 
 .. warning::
 
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ Several other MySQLdb connection options may be useful, such as ``ssl``,
 ``init_command``, and ``sql_mode``. Consult the `MySQLdb documentation`_ for
 more details.
 
-.. _MySQL option file: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/option-files.html
+.. _MySQL option file: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/option-files.html
 .. _MySQLdb documentation: http://mysql-python.sourceforge.net/
 
 .. _mysql-sql-mode:
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ warnings into errors when data are truncated upon insertion, so Django highly
 recommends activating a `strict mode`_ for MySQL to prevent data loss (either
 ``STRICT_TRANS_TABLES`` or ``STRICT_ALL_TABLES``).
 
-.. _strict mode: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/sql-mode.html#sql-mode-strict
+.. _strict mode: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/sql-mode.html#sql-mode-strict
 
 If you need to customize the SQL mode, you can set the ``sql_mode`` variable
 like other MySQL options: either in a config file or with the entry

docs/ref/models/querysets.txt

@@ -739,7 +739,7 @@ object. If it's ``None``, Django uses the :ref:`current time zone
     .. _pytz: http://pytz.sourceforge.net/
     .. _Time Zones: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-datetime.html#DATATYPE-TIMEZONES
     .. _Choosing a Time Zone File: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10729/ch4datetime.htm#NLSPG258
-    .. _mysql_tzinfo_to_sql: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-tzinfo-to-sql.html
+    .. _mysql_tzinfo_to_sql: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/mysql-tzinfo-to-sql.html
 
 ``none()``
 ~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -2840,7 +2840,7 @@ Note this is only available in MySQL and requires direct manipulation of the
 database to add the full-text index. By default Django uses BOOLEAN MODE for
 full text searches. See the `MySQL documentation`_ for additional details.
 
-.. _MySQL documentation: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/fulltext-boolean.html
+.. _MySQL documentation: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/fulltext-boolean.html
 
 .. fieldlookup:: regex
 

docs/ref/settings.txt

@@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ backend-specific.
 Supported by the PostgreSQL_ (``postgresql``) and MySQL_ (``mysql``) backends.
 
 .. _PostgreSQL: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/multibyte.html
-.. _MySQL: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/charset-database.html
+.. _MySQL: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/charset-database.html
 
 .. setting:: TEST_COLLATION
 

docs/ref/unicode.txt

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ able to store certain characters in the database, and information will be lost.
 * SQLite users, there is nothing you need to do. SQLite always uses UTF-8
   for internal encoding.
 
-.. _MySQL manual: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/charset-database.html
+.. _MySQL manual: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/charset-database.html
 .. _PostgreSQL manual: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/multibyte.html
 .. _Oracle manual: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10729/toc.htm
 .. _section 2: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10729/ch2charset.htm#NLSPG002

docs/releases/1.6.txt

@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ pytz_. If you're using MySQL, you must install pytz_ and load the time zone
 tables with `mysql_tzinfo_to_sql`_.
 
 .. _pytz: http://pytz.sourceforge.net/
-.. _mysql_tzinfo_to_sql: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-tzinfo-to-sql.html
+.. _mysql_tzinfo_to_sql: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/mysql-tzinfo-to-sql.html
 
 Addition of ``QuerySet.datetimes()``
 ------------------------------------

docs/topics/db/transactions.txt

@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ function in autocommit mode: statements will be executed and committed as soon
 as they're called. If your MySQL setup *does* support transactions, Django
 will handle transactions as explained in this document.
 
-.. _information on MySQL transactions: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/sql-syntax-transactions.html
+.. _information on MySQL transactions: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/sql-syntax-transactions.html
 
 Handling exceptions within PostgreSQL transactions
 --------------------------------------------------