Added paranoid parameter, which sanitizes error messages by removing “sensitive” information from them (such as host names, ports, or user names), as well as clearing “sensitive” data structures when possible.

Added LOCAL TEMPORARY to table types in DatabaseMetaData.getTableTypes().

Added socketTimeout parameter to URL.

Connection.close() issues rollback() when getAutoCommit() is false.

Connection.isClosed() no longer “pings” the server.

Added limited Clob functionality (ResultSet.getClob(), PreparedStatement.setClob(), PreparedStatement.setObject(Clob).

Implemented ResultSet.getCharacterStream().

Massive code clean-up to follow Java coding conventions (the time had come).

Fixed ResultSet.getRow() off-by-one bug.

Fixed RowDataStatic.getAt() off-by-one bug.

Fixed ResultSetMetaData.isSigned() for TINYINT and BIGINT.

Charsets now automatically detected. Optimized code for single-byte character set conversion.