Main additions:

commit 543c2006a70983c2ce75024bce3679b0c20f9ae6
Author: Olivier Bertrand <bertrandop@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 4 13:51:13 2018 +0100

    - Fix MDEV-9844, MDEV-10179, MDEV-14214
     This is done by removing the tbl table type THREAD option
     that causes a multiple of sporadic bugs.
     This may be temporary depending on whether a real fix is found.
      modified:   storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/disabled.def
      modified:   storage/connect/tabtbl.cpp
      modified:   storage/connect/tabtbl.h

commit 54bc4ea024ca5fb5c137c618084d8cccfba2ee3f
Author: Olivier Bertrand <bertrandop@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Nov 3 16:21:56 2017 +0100

    - Fix MDEV-13925: Actually this fixes SELECT queries when
      the WHERE clause have single quote.
      modified:   storage/connect/ha_connect.cc

    - Use Windows VirtualAlloc and VirtualFree for the Sarea workspace
      modified:   storage/connect/global.h
      modified:   storage/connect/ha_connect.cc
      modified:   storage/connect/jsonudf.cpp
      modified:   storage/connect/plgdbutl.cpp
      modified:   storage/connect/plugutil.cpp
      modified:   storage/connect/user_connect.cc

    - Change inihandl from c to c++.
      Because it now includes global.h that contains a bool function definition
      that make compile to fail on Linux.
      modified:   storage/connect/CMakeLists.txt
      removed:    storage/connect/inihandl.c
      added:      storage/connect/inihandl.cpp

    - Fix MDEV-13860 CONNECT engine does not build with JDBC without ODBC.
      By including Sergei's patch in connect_assisted_discovery.
      modified:   storage/connect/ha_connect.cc

commit c07064d31a4d7ee0533fec144648d93873c0dd17
Author: Olivier Bertrand <bertrandop@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 18 00:11:00 2017 +0200

    - Update version number
      modified:   storage/connect/ha_connect.cc

    - Include MONGO in all Java enabled distributions
      Mongo will be enabled only for 10.2 and 10.3
      modified:   storage/connect/CMakeLists.txt

    - Change JDBC_SUPPORT to JAVA_SUPPORT which also replaces MONGO_SUPPORT
      MONGO_SUPPORT is now just used to enable the MONGO table type
      modified:   storage/connect/filter.cpp
      modified:   storage/connect/ha_connect.cc
      modified:   storage/connect/ha_connect.h
      modified:   storage/connect/mongo.cpp
      modified:   storage/connect/mycat.cc
      modified:   storage/connect/plgdbutl.cpp
      modified:   storage/connect/tabjson.cpp
      modified:   storage/connect/tabjson.h

    - Move MakeSelector function from FILTER to mongo.cpp
      modified:   storage/connect/filter.cpp
      modified:   storage/connect/filter.h
      modified:   storage/connect/cmgoconn.cpp
      modified:   storage/connect/jmgoconn.cpp
      modified:   storage/connect/mongo.cpp

    - Do mongo_init only on first use of the MongoDB C Driver
      This will permit to delay load the mongo lib on Windows
      modified:   storage/connect/cmgoconn.cpp
      modified:   storage/connect/cmgoconn.h
      modified:   storage/connect/ha_connect.cc

    - Replace NEW_VAR by a test on MYSQL_VERSION_ID
      modified:   storage/connect/ha_connect.cc

    - Suppress enable_mongo session variable
      modified:   storage/connect/ha_connect.cc
      modified:   storage/connect/mycat.cc

    - Make some function headers identical in .h and .cc file
      (replacing const char* by PCSZ)
      modified:   storage/connect/ha_connect.cc
      modified:   storage/connect/ha_connect.h

    - Change a parameter type from uchar* to const uchar*
      (for ScanRecord and CheckRecord)
      modified:   storage/connect/ha_connect.cc
      modified:   storage/connect/ha_connect.h

    - Changes on LIKE and NOT LIKE does not fix a bug yet
      modified:   storage/connect/ha_connect.cc

    - Suppress PIVOT_SUPPORT (PIVOT type is unconditionnal)
      modified:   storage/connect/ha_connect.cc
      modified:   storage/connect/mycat.cc

    - Change the strz function from inline to static
      modified:   storage/connect/ha_connect.cc
      modified:   storage/connect/ha_connect.h

    - export the JavaConn class and the MgoColumns and IsNum functions
      modified:   storage/connect/javaconn.h
      modified:   storage/connect/json.h
      modified:   storage/connect/mongo.h

    - Fix MDEV-13924
      modified:   storage/connect/jdbconn.cpp

    - Make a temporary fix for the compiler bug in CalculateArray
      modified:   storage/connect/jsonudf.cpp
      modified:   storage/connect/tabjson.cpp

    - Typo
      modified:   storage/connect/jdbccat.h
      modified:   storage/connect/reldef.h
      modified:   storage/connect/tabext.h
      modified:   storage/connect/tabjmg.cpp
      modified:   storage/connect/tabxml.h
      modified:   storage/connect/valblk.h
      modified:   storage/connect/value.h
      modified:   storage/connect/xtable.h

    - Fix a bug in MONGO tests by changing 'MONGO' to $TYPE
      modified:   storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/t/mongo_test.inc

    - Record test results to reflect all changes
      modified:   storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/json_java_2.result
      modified:   storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/json_java_3.result
      modified:   storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/json_mongo_c.result
      modified:   storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/mongo_c.result
      modified:   storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/mongo_java_2.result
      modified:   storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/mongo_java_3.result

commit 3da90fd112e7d5ee6f0bd9c3fc3eeb4529b30e93
Author: Olivier Bertrand <bertrandop@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 11 12:21:56 2017 +0200

    Fix MDEV-13924 modified: storage/connect/jdbconn.cpp

commit 2566e67da80f291414f02c7dd6a8ca3557161d26
Author: Olivier Bertrand <bertrandop@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Sep 11 16:38:41 2017 +0200

    Enable MONGO for the C driver. Modified: modified:   storage/connect/CMakeLists.txt

commit 27ae11db830c5d62bbf8b8b13cab976b74efe7dd
Author: Olivier Bertrand <bertrandop@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Sep 5 19:52:04 2017 +0200

    - Update version number
      modified:   storage/connect/ha_connect.cc

    - Regard columns with binary charset as string (was binary)
      modified:   storage/connect/ha_connect.cc
      modified:   storage/connect/tabmysql.cpp
      modified:   storage/connect/tabutil.cpp

    - Support length 0 for CHAR and VARCHAR
      modified:   storage/connect/ha_connect.cc
      modified:   storage/connect/reldef.cpp
      modified:   storage/connect/value.cpp

    - Add ACCEPT option for void columns in discovery
      modified:   storage/connect/tabjson.cpp

    - Update some tests because of above change
      modified:   storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/json_java_2.result
      modified:   storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/json_java_3.result
      modified:   storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/json_mongo_c.result
      modified:   storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/mongo_c.result
      modified:   storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/mongo_java_2.result
      modified:   storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/mongo_java_3.result
      modified:   storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/odbc_oracle.result
      modified:   storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/updelx.result
      modified:   storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/t/mongo_test.inc

commit f6ee6cd1d42d861fa50fea8d9a7079347b7ddfd6
Author: Olivier Bertrand <bertrandop@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Sep 2 16:06:10 2017 +0200

    - Fix MongoDB C Driver adding for CMAKE.
      Requires MongoDB C Driver version 1.7 now available
      modified:   storage/connect/CMakeLists.txt

    - Add more trace to tbl_thread.test (to debug failure)
      modified:   storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/r/tbl_thread.result
      modified:   storage/connect/mysql-test/connect/t/tbl_thread.test