diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 43aaa087..25613975 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Version 2.6.3-stable+timestamp.2013.09.19.21.32.38
+Version 2.6.3-stable+timestamp.2013.09.19.21.43.19
diff --git a/gluon/dal.py b/gluon/dal.py
index 4b3bb94d..bba0e469 100644
--- a/gluon/dal.py
+++ b/gluon/dal.py
@@ -310,6 +310,11 @@ if not 'google' in DRIVERS:
     except ImportError:
         LOGGER.debug('no MySQL driver MySQLDB')
 
+    try:
+        import mysql.connector as mysqlconnector
+        DRIVERS.append("MySQL(mysqlconnector)")
+    except ImportError:
+        LOGGER.debug("no driver mysql.connector")
 
     try:
         import psycopg2
@@ -2445,7 +2450,7 @@ class JDBCSQLiteAdapter(SQLiteAdapter):
 
 
 class MySQLAdapter(BaseAdapter):
-    drivers = ('MySQLdb','pymysql')
+    drivers = ('MySQLdb','pymysql', 'mysqlconnector')
 
     commit_on_alter_table = True
     support_distributed_transaction = True