Implemented Clob.truncate().

Properly restore connection properties when autoReconnecting or failing-over, including autoCommit state, and isolation level.

Fixed issue when calling Statement.setFetchSize() when using arbitrary values.

Added queriesBeforeRetryMaster property that specifies how many queries to issue when failed over before attempting to reconnect to the master (defaults to 50).

Fixed ResultSet.setFetchDirection(FETCH_UNKNOWN).

Added driver property useHostsInPrivileges. Defaults to true. Affects whether or not @hostname will be used in DBMD.getColumn/TablePrivileges.

Fixed ResultSet.isLast() for empty result sets (should return false).

Fixed various non-ASCII character encoding issues.

Added connectTimeout parameter that enables users of JDK-1.4 and newer to specify a maximum time to wait to establish a connection.

Fixed start position off-by-1 error in Clob.getSubString().

Fixed issue with updatable result sets and PreparedStatements not working.

PreparedStatement now honors stream lengths in setBinary/Ascii/Character Stream() unless you set the connection property useStreamLengthsInPrepStmts to false.

Escape 0x5c character in strings for the SJIS charset.

Removed some not-needed temporary object creation by smarter use of Strings in EscapeProcessor, Connection and DatabaseMetaData classes.

Implemented ResultSet.updateBlob().

Fixed incorrect conversion in ResultSet.getLong().

Fixed UnsupportedEncodingException thrown when “forcing” a character encoding using properties.

Removed duplicate code from UpdatableResultSet (it can be inherited from ResultSet, the extra code for each method to handle updatability I thought might someday be necessary has not been needed).

Implemented Clob.setAsciiStream().

Fixed DBMD.supportsResultSetConcurrency() so that it returns true for ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_INSENSITIVE and ResultSet.CONCUR_READ_ONLY or ResultSet.CONCUR_UPDATABLE.

Failover and autoReconnect work only when the connection is in an autoCommit(false) state, to stay transaction-safe.

Implemented Clob.setCharacterStream().

Use SHOW CREATE TABLE when possible for determining foreign key information for DatabaseMetaData. Also enables cascade options for DELETE information to be returned.

All DBMD result set columns describing schemas now return NULL to be more compliant with the behavior of other JDBC drivers for other database systems (MySQL does not support schemas).

Added SSL support. See README for information on how to use it.

Added com.mysql.jdbc.MiniAdmin class, which enables you to send shutdown command to MySQL server. This is intended to be used when “embedding” Java and MySQL server together in an end-user application.

Implemented Clob.setString().