Performance enhancements: Driver is now 50–100% faster in most situations, and creates fewer temporary objects.

!!! LICENSE CHANGE !!! The driver is now GPL.

Overall speed improvements using controlling transient object creation in MysqlIO class when reading packets.

JDBC-3.0 functionality including Statement/PreparedStatement.getGeneratedKeys() and ResultSet.getURL().

Performance improvements in string handling and field metadata creation (lazily instantiated) contributed by Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes.

Better checking for closed connections in Statement and PreparedStatement.

Support for large packets (new addition to MySQL-4.0 protocol), see README for more information.

Repackaging: New driver name is com.mysql.jdbc.Driver, old name still works, though (the driver is now provided by MySQL-AB).

Added multi-host failover support (see README).

ResultSet.getDate/Time/Timestamp now recognizes all forms of invalid values that have been set to all zeros by MySQL (SF bug 586058).

JDBC Compliance: Passes all tests besides stored procedure tests.

Testsuite now uses Junit (which you can get from http://www.junit.org.

Support for streaming (row-by-row) result sets (see README) Thanks to Doron.

Float types now reported as java.sql.Types.FLOAT (SF bug 579573).

ResultSet.getTimestamp() now works for DATE types (SF bug 559134).

Fix and sort primary key names in DBMetaData (SF bugs 582086 and 582086).

The driver now only works with JDK-1.2 or newer.

General source-code cleanup.